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to fynbos, an integral feature of the fynbos biome is fire and it is an essential component of its perpetuation. Fynbos areas should not be burned more frequently than seven to twelve years but lightning strikes are happening more often resulting in veld fires. This could have an adverse effect on endangered fynbos species that take several years before they

In the following assignment I will discuss and answer the questions about the poem, To the doctor who treated the raped baby and who felt such despair (2004) by Finuala Dowling. 1.) The poem’s title is not effective, because the content in the poem is contradicting that which is read in the title. Therefor, the title of the poem is unusual, because it (To the doctor who treated the raped baby and who felt such despair (2004)) is suggesting to the audience that the doctor who is helping the raped

“I’ve come to take you home –home, remember the veld? the lush green grass beneath the big oak trees the air is cool there and the sun does not burn. I have made your bed at the foot of the hill, your blankets are covered in buchu and mint, the proteas stand in yellow and white and the water in the stream chuckle sing-songs as it hobbles along over little stones.” – Diana Farrus This is a poem by Dianna Farrus called “I’ve come to take you home” Dianna Farrus is a South African writer, poet, and

in its assured treatment of its unusual subject matter… Doris Lessing questions the entire values of Rhodesian white colonial society” (88). The Grass Is Singing narrates the life events of Mary Turner shaped by colonial experience, in the Rhodesian veld and South Africa, and questions the entire values of the Rhodesian white colonial society. Lessing spins an intricate text, interweaving Mary’s life and struggle in a colonial world. In vibrant details, Lessing describes the effects of a society under

James Jarvis In Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country there is two protagonists, Reverend Stephen Kumalo, and James Jarvis. Both characters play significant roles to the story but James Jarvis’ situation is noteworthy and inspirational. James is an influential, dynamic character because his opinion dramatically changes upon reading his son’s manuscript. A series of events influences James to shift his mindset into the mindset of his son. An analysis on James Jarvis’ changing mindset reveals

Trailblazers and change agents are men and women who dared the odds and sacrificed their freedom for the gain of others. Great leaders live among the masses; the quality of their service, humility, dedication, and selflessness distinguishes them from the populace. These great leaders are munificent men and women who are independent in their thinking. One such man, Nelson Mandela, delivered “Acceptance and Nobel Lecture” in 1993 for his contributions to the “peaceful termination of the apartheid rule

Finding Hope in Despair Frederick Douglass, the father of the Civil Rights movement, once proclaimed, “The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.” Douglass, a former slave and human rights leader, realized the happiness of a white man was not found in persecuting black men Alan Paton’s bestselling novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, occurs during the apartheid and portrays the impartial and segregated treatment of black men Published in 1948, Paton reveals the story of

aberration, Kumalo describes the valley of Ndotsheni named Umzimkulu as "[...] You look down on one of the fairest valleys of Africa. About you there is grass and bracken and you may hear the forlorn crying of the Titihoya, one of the birds of the veld. Below you is the valley of the Umzimkulu”(Paton 1). In Umzimkulu, the Titihoya bird is unable to sing in Umzimkulu. Paton diction allows to partition this two conflicting places and allows for the explanation of the Titihoya bird’s aberrant behavior

Gideon’s Freedom in  Doris Lessing’s No Witchcraft For Sale Dr. Gosby’s Comments: This student did an excellent job of applying the ideas we discussed in class relating to the obedience to authority When Europeans moved into the bush of Southern Africa and realized that they were hopelessly outnumbered, they had to develop ways to create and maintain their authority over the native population. They had tremendous advantages in the obvious areas, as author Jared Diamond writes in his

Hi, I will get an address for you tomorrow. I've just come back from the main production studios I work for, and a very nice Portuguese electronics/video/compression expert, Paulo, spent a lot of time trying to figure out what we can do with all the footage. Good news is that he can use conversions and compression programmes (he writes them himself) that will allow for all our cellphone pics and videos, your pictures and the camcorder's footage to be used in the same editing programme. So though