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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Miss Amelia‚ an unattractive woman first starts off with her husband Marvin whom later goes to jail. After a while Miss Amelia tends to her very successful liquor store and she tries to forget about her ex-husband. Randomly one day her long lost cousin‚ Lymon‚ arrives at her home. Soon she falls in love with him‚ not
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Martha Ostenso many characters such as Judith and Amelia are treated with oppression by Caleb who is Amelia’s husband and Judith’s father. Caleb is a rude‚ unmannered
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(1) summarizes the factual situation The company was started off by Amelia. The company is a family software company that Aunt Amelia started. She started working in a spare room in her house and was able to bring other relatives together to invest together and form a company. The company was a success that is became part of Wall Street just three years ago. The company has being profitable and there haven’t being any issues associated with the accounting records or any financial data associated
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Kayla Vega English *093 Final Essay March 27‚2013 “Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges”-Nikos Kazantzakis With my high school years behind me‚ I would like to reverse roles a bit and offer some advice to teachers. My senior year‚ I had one of my best teachers ever. Her name was Mrs. Jacob. The area where she excelled the most was in making math interesting and making her students motivated and interested in learning more about math. Some nights‚ I would look forward
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Richard Wright was determined to make a profound statement. In his novel‚ Native Son‚ he endeavors to present the “horror of Negro life in the United States” (Wright xxxiii). By addressing such a significant topic‚ he sought to write a book that “no one would weep over; that would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears” (xxvii). Native Son is a commentary on the poverty and helplessness experienced by blacks in America‚ and it illustrates the abhorrent
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maintaining an independent personality‚ pursuing individual freedom‚ advocating equality of life and being confident in hard conditions. And the most observably thing she shows us is the feminism. In the beginning of Jane Eyre‚ Jane struggles against Bessie‚ the nurse at Gateshead Hall‚ and says‚ I resisted all the way: a new thing for me."(Chapter 2). This sentence foreshadows what will be an important theme of the rest of the book‚ that of female independence or rebelliousness. Jane is here resisting
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across the floor I looked back at Amelia. “I need to warn people about the new injection‚ it is making us into mindless slaves for the Iunctus. We need to stop or the world will be over.” I ignited. “So‚ what’s so bad about the world ending?” she was pushing buttons I never knew were there‚ it’s always this way with her. It’s either her way or the highway‚ sometimes she will agree with you. It nice to know that I always can make her agree. “I don’t know about you Amelia‚ but I would like to keep my
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Bread Givers The book‚ Bread Givers is a novel written by Anzia Yezierska following the lives of woman who have to go through struggle because of new tradition verses old tradition. In the book I found that there are several themes within the book Bread Givers. Woman Rights‚ being one of them‚ seem to be an issue throughout the book. This book revolves around the lives of woman in a household on Hester Street in New York City. In the 1920’s times were not easiest for immigrants. In this book
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fruition often in gothic literature‚ and usually happens to those who are innocent as a means of furthering the central idea of horror. In the short story‚ “Prey”‚ written by Richard Matheson‚ expounds upon the idea of entrapment when the main character Amelia is running from an evil doll and “trie[s] to open the bolt. It [is] helplessly
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