use nature as its symbols. The rain is one of the most significant symbols in the book. The rain can mean many different things‚ but all serving as bad effects. The rain is an important part of this book because it tells the reader more about the things going on throughout the novel. The rain is the most significant symbol in the book. The novel portrays rain as something bad or something bad that is going to happen. It is used in many different ways. In the novel rain is represented as good and bad
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How does Bessie Head use symbolism in her novel When rain clouds gather and what effect does it have on the way we read and respond to the story? In the novel When rain clouds gather‚ Bessie Head uses symbolism to express the transition from the harsh life of tribalism‚ to the development of modern day co-operatives and the effect it has on the community. One of the main symbolic images in the text is the recurring theme of When rain clouds gather. This incomplete and open statement refers
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When Socrates meets Confucius Emotionales versus Rationales: A Comparison between Confucius and Socrates ABSTRACT Socrates regards rational knowledge as the decisive factor of human life and even ascribes all virtues and moral actions to it‚ thereby stressing the ‘rationales’ of ethics. In contrast‚ Confucius regards kinship love as the decisive factor of human life and even grounds all virtues and moral actions on it‚ thereby stressing the ‘emotionales’ of ethics. Therefore‚ we should not
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QUESTIONS a) When it is considered that rain is acid? = The pH scale measures how acidic an object is‚ when pH is lower than 7 rain is considered acid. b) Which are the compounds that in contact with water origin acid rain? = Compounds like sulfur sulphuric and nitric acids. c) Which are the principal causes of these compounds? = The extra acidity in rain comes from the reaction of primary air pollutants‚ primarily sulphur oxides and nitrogen oxides‚ with water in the air to form strong
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WHEN RAIN CLOUDS GATHER THEMES * TRIBALISM * APARTHEID * RACISM * DESCRIMINATION * PROGRESSION – DEVELOPMENT * BLACK/BLACK – WHITE/BLACK – MALE/FEMALE * SOCIAL INJUSTICE When rain clouds gather written by Bessie Head is set in Botswana. The protagonist‚ Makhaya Maseko is escaping from South Africa as he does not want to be part of the apartheid system‚ he just wants peace and equality. The aims of the author are to show the horrible living conditions due to the same
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had no rights to vote. People were poorly educated and often imprisoned and beaten - bessie head explains that not all white man in south Africa are evil a good example of her conveying it is when dinorego states “I take gilbert as my own son which fact surprises me since he is a white man and we Botswana do not know any white people” -“to gilbert‚ it was the first real hand clap he had experienced and the loneliness in which he found himself in tribal Africa” this shows that as a white
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When Rain Clouds Gather (African Writers) by Bessie Head Synopses & Reviews Publisher Comments: The poverty-stricken village of Golema Mmidi‚ in the heart of rural Botswana‚ offers a haven to the exiles gathered there. Makhaya‚ a political refugee from South Africa‚ becomes involved with an English agricultural expert and the villagers as they struggle to upgrade their traditional farming methods with modern techniques. The pressures of tradition‚ the opposition of the local chief‚ and‚ above all
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Chez Evans KSP 220W Reflection We Shall Remain The film We Shall Remain explained what happened after the first Thanksgiving feast. In southeastern Massachusetts a leader of the Wampanoag tribe by the name of Massasoit Negotiates a friendship with new English settlers. Due to the sickness of the english Massasoit decided to help them survive through the winter‚ as the settlers started to bring more of their people to this new land the Wampanoag
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ENGLISH 1ST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE LITERATURE - WHEN RAIN CLOUDS GATHER NOTE: This lesson focuses on the historical background to the story and a synopsis of all the chapters. Summary of chapters gives the story line i.e. main issues in each chapter. Do not disregard the book and depend on this summary‚ they could be some omissions. Furthermore you are expected to interrogate the text and draw your own personal conclusions about what the writer has presented. Lastly apply the different literary
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these perspectives do differ in specific areas and that is what brings me to compare and contrast on both philosophers. "He acts before he speaks‚ and afterwards speaks according to his actions" (Confucius 2-13). Confucius says that we shouldn’t speak about what we don’t know‚ just as Socrates is known for saying "I am wise because I know nothing." Both of them seem to imply that a virtuous man knows nothing‚ and yet that is the key to knowledge itself. Socrates believes a just man is a man who
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