1. Help Stop Acid Rain
Waiting for the Rain was inspired by the unjust policy of apartheid in South Africa. During the unfair treatment a young boy endured, he had to decide if the value of friendship can overcome extreme tensions risen by a unfavorable system.
It all began on a farm on the South African veld. Tengo was a black boy who laborer on the farm of Frikkie's uncle. As a child, he was blinded from the unfairness and hardships, and found thorough bliss in a young companion. Frikkie was definitely recognized as higher status. He was accustomed to privileges, such as freedom and schooling, and did not have to encounter the poverty and afflictions of Kaffirs (the black boys). Despite such liberty, he desired nothing more than the visits to his uncle's farm, where one of the joys of his short stays in the rural area was his friendship with Tengo. .
As Tengo grew, he became deeply disturbed by the political, legal, and social constraints placed on him, his family, and the colored people of the nation by the government and by society. He began to recognize the unfairness and prejudice to his people. He craved knowledge, believing that it was capable of answering his unanswerable question and bringing about change to the discriminatory ways. He yearned for the education and rights of the white. Frikkie, on the other hand, wished for nothing more than to work on his uncle's farm and to someday inherit it. .
The two boys matured and went their separate ways; Tengo moved into the township in order to attend a school for colored people. He succeed at his studies, and dreamt of one day schooling in the United States, after he received a scholarship for his outstanding achievements. The text motivated him, it was phenomenal how his bewilderment began to diminish as he became a top scholar. Frikkie, however had already complete his schooling and wrote his matric exams, and began his two years of government mandated military service.
What is the point of apartheid? Truthfully there is no point at all to apartheid. It is just a set of racially motivated laws that limit the Black South Africans from having equal rights to the White South Africans. Apartheid is ridiculous and extremely wrong. A discussion of apartheid according...
Frikkie and Tengo are the two main characters in the story Waiting for the Rain. Frikkie is a white boy who has a Dutch descent while Tengo is a native black African boy. Frikkie hates school while Tengo dreams to receive an education. Frikkie likes working on his uncle's farm and playing around. Ho...
However, this experiment obviously couldn't involve rocks dissolving because I didn't want to wait for generations to get results. ... Erosion is a natural process by which acidic rain degrades solid objects on the ground. ... I waited for a week before observing the results. ... Acid rain is much weaker than vinegar or lemon juice. ...
She has to wait and see if he even listens to her. ... She runs outside in rain, speaks her mind, and even has the typical boyish haircut of the 1920s - flapper. ... It is easy to feel her boredom in the scene where she just runs off to save the cat from the rain. ... She might be, but she is also desperate, just like the cat in the rain. ... She laughs when the woman tells her that she wants to save the cat from the rain. ...
Tropical Rain Forests Tropical rain forests are complex ecosystems, which are made up of four distinct environments. ... Some plants have adopted specifically to live their entire lives in the understory, while others are canopy or emergent trees that are waiting for the other trees to fall. ...
The African continent is home to a variety of ecosystems, from hot deserts, to tropical rain forests. ... Savannas are found in hot climates where the annual rain fall can vary from 20-50 inches of rain per year. ... This rain period must then be followed by a long period of drought. ... Shrubs are able to do the same thing, with their roots containing enough of a food reserve to wait until the rain comes. ... Once rain begins the grass begins to grow very rapidly, sometimes as much as an inch in 24 hours. ...
Between all the characters, there is a constant expectation of rain throughout the poem; this is not necessarily in hope of it, there is also a fear of rain, an utmost suspicion of water and what it may bring. ... "The limp leaves waited for rain , while the black clouds gathered far distant." ... The Waste Land will be re-born when the rain comes and the land will become fertile again. ... For example in part two, "A Game of Chess," the quotation, "Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door," this supports the idea of anticipation and waiting, and all the time being waste...
If there is too much rain the paddy sprout will drowned under the water, and if there is no rain the sprout can not grow. ... After waiting for the rice to grow enough for a few months, the farmer has to transplants the sprout by themselves again. Then they have to wait for the time to harvest which is such a backbreaking work. ... Buffalo, although looks lazy and slow, does not afraid of the rain. They can work both in the pouring rain and in the strong shining sun. ...