1. Help Stop Acid Rain
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 to the novel Waiting for the Rain will show the reader to understand exactly how wrong apartheid really is.
In the novel the two main characters are best friends, one of them is white and the other is black. Frikkie is a white kid who gets to go to school for free and is best friends with Tengo who is a black kid and is not allowed a free education. Tengo cannot understand why the black kids aren't allowed to receive a free education just like the white kids. Throughout the novel all Tengo wants is an free education and he finally finds out from his cousin Joseph that the whole reason that he cannot receive an education for free is because he is black and is not allowed the same rights as the whites. After Tengo speaks with Joseph he soon begins to realize the true aspects of the Apartheid in South Africa.
About halfway through the novel Frikkie's family is staying on the farm, because his aunt and uncle were having a party. Tengo and his family have to work at the party and be servants to the white people. There is a very rude red headed girl at the party who is incredibly disrespectful to Old Ezekiel (the eldest member of the Kaffir People) by calling him "boy" when he is actually much older than her. When Tengo heard the way the girl spoke to Ezekiel he went off on her. Frikkie has to beg his sister and the red head girl not to go and tell on Tengo because he is his friend. Tengo realizes it is very wrong to speak to your elder that way, and he knows that the girl thinks she is better than Ezekiel because she is white and he is black.
Later in the novel Tengo's mother finally allows him to move to the city and get the education like he always wanted.
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...
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 w...
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. ...