adults and teenagers. It was just a taste to come. Night came. A dirty‚ black night with rain. It suggested that we are in for a survival night. It was then time to hit the hay after a very stressful‚ action pact day. Two hours later‚ I woke up and I heard Niamh outside the tent banging down the tent pegs in the middle of night in torrential weather conditions. I was wondering what was going on. I went out and saw what was wrong. The rain was pouring from the heavens. I noticed that tent was
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Introduction The title of the story is The Rain Came by Grace Ogot. The author of the story is Grace Ogot or also known as Grace Emily Akinyi. She was born on 15 May 1930‚ near Kisumu‚ central Nyanza Region in Kenya. In achievement‚ she became the first African woman writer in English who published fiction by the East African Publishing House. Her stories such as Land Without Thunder (1968)‚ The Other Woman (1976)‚ and The Island of Tears (1980) provides the traditional Luo life. Most of her fiction
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The Rain Came Oganda could see the lake in the distance. She swallows her fear and walks towards it‚ like a cow led to slaughter. Singing quietly under her breath Oganda ignores the prickling of her skin as she makes her way through the sacred land. When at last she reaches the lake Oganda breathes a small sigh of relief‚ she is so thirsty‚ and her journey would be over soon. Just as she’s about to step a foot in the stretching expanse of the water a voice shouts from behind her. Startled
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THE RAIN CAME GRACE OGOT I. A. VOCABULARY WORDS Luo -a tribe in Northern Kenya and Uganda consecrated-to be inducted into a position rebuked-to be criticized Oganda-“beans” enviable-good fortune that is envied/desired by other people siala tree-acacia tree‚ is the strongest tree in the desert. It can go many months‚ years even‚ without water. hoarse-making a harsh‚ low sound faint-lacking strength; weak karlamo-the sacred place torrents- a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence
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the one who has mixed blood. Second‚ he is not loyal to his wife. He cheated on her in front of her face by bringing the mistress to his house just to hurt his wife’s feeling. Third‚ he is racist. According to the story‚ all of his slaves are all black people‚ and when his wife got the baby who is not white‚ he asked her to leave the house with the baby. Fourth‚ he is aggressive. For example‚ he burnt all of his wife’s and his baby’s belongings when they left. Last‚ this character has given me a
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daughter Oganda‚ who asks for news about when it will rain. Labong’o is cryptically speechless. Notably‚ with Ogot’s immediate presentation of this critical concern about whether or not rain will come‚ the reader may at once expect that this concern will be resolved favorably; the title--and there is no evidence that it is meant ironically--assures that "the rain came." Thus‚ the tension raised by this concern shifts to a different question: the rain will presumably come‚ but at what cost? Labong’o’s
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The Rain Came Grace Ogot The chief was still far from the gate when his daughter Oganda saw him. She ran to meet him. Breathlessly she asked her father‚ “What is the news‚ great chief? Everyone in the village is anxiously waiting to hear when it will rain.” Labong’o held out his hands for his daughter but he did not say a word. Puzzled by her father’s cold attitude Oganda ran back to the village to warn the others that the chief was back. The atmosphere in the village was tense and confused. Everyone
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Black Swans or Dirty Ducks? A Retrospective Challenge the Unchallenged It’s a duty of risk managers to challenge that which rests unchallenged. Nassim Nicholas Taleb did a great service by popularizing risk concepts in his book‚ The Black Swan . However‚ it is easy to get seduced by his enthusiasm‚ carried away by his pace and miss a few flaws. Over the last six years since it was published The Black Swan has been virtually unchallenged as a standard reference book. However‚ on closer examination
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Ihuse. Masuji. Black Rain. Trans. John Bester. London: Kodansha Europe Limited‚ 1994. 120 "Quite suddenly the boy‚ with an expression of great revulsion‚ came out with his story. He had been at home when the ball of fire had burst. There had been a sudden flash and a mighty roar‚ and he had started to run outside. On the instant‚ the house had collapsed and he had lost consciousness. When he came to‚ he found himself trapped between beams or other timbers‚ and his father trying to get them off
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"Black English" Another Way to Classify Humans "To open your mouth You have confessed your parents‚ your youth‚ your school‚ your salary‚ your self-esteem‚ and alas‚ your future ". After reading the two essays‚ "From Outside‚ In" by Barbara Mellix and "If Black English Isn’t a Language Then Tell Me‚ What Is?" by James Balwin‚ I came to realize a few things one of them being that the way we speak‚ is a means of identifying somebody’s culture and background. Much in how a license can tell a person
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