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The ignition systems should always be kept dry. Ignition wires with poor insulation should be replaced. Cooling SystemThe cooling system aims at preventing the engine from overheating which would cause piston zeisure in the cylinder. Some tractor engines are cooled by air while others are cooled by water. State the Cha... |
Care and Maintenance of Lubrication SystemsOld or contaminated oil should not be used for lubrication. Oil should be drained when still hot to avoid sticking on the walls of the sump. The oil filters should be replaced when necessary. The correct type of oil should be used as per the manufacturers' instructions. Power ... |
The fan belt tension should be checked to ensure that it deflects between 1.9cm and 2.5cm when pushed. The brake shaft bearing should be greased. The brake fluid level is maintained at the recommended level. Long Term ServicesThe engine oil should be drained completely from the oil sump and replaced with new oil. The g... |
It also adds weight for better penetration. Depth wheel:Used when driving on highway, it also controls the depth of ploughing. May not be present in all disc ploughs. The standard or leg: Connects the discs to the beam. The hub: Allows the discs to rotate smoothly hence does the cutting of furrow slices. The scrapers: ... |
Landside: Stabilizes the plough and absorbs the side forces created when furrow is turned. Shin: Leading edge of a mouldboard. Knife coulter: Is a vertical knife which cuts trash and earth ahead of the share. Care and MaintenanceLubricate the rolling parts for example wheel bearings and disc coulter bearings. Paint scr... |
Care and MaintenanceCheck for loose nuts and bolts and tighten them if necessary. Clean after use. Oil the lever mechanism. S pike Tooth HarrowsConsists of a metal framework with rigid metal spikes which break up the soil by vigorously hitting large lumps of soils as it is pulled through the soil. UsesIt smoothens and ... |
AdjustmentsTo adjust knife register by moving the whole bar away or towards the yoke. Knife lead: The outer shoe should be adjusted to be outer than the inner shoe by 4cm. MaintenanceCheck for loose nuts and bolts and tighten where necessary. Keep knife section sharp. Lubricate the knife parts. Check knife to ledger pl... |
Use reducers below the feed wheel. Care and MaintenanceKeep seed and fertilizer hoppers dry and clean after each day's work. Check the drive shaft and lubricate them. Paint the parts for example fertilizerhopper to be shinyCombine HarvesterUseHarvesting cereal crops for example maize, wheat and barley. It is designed t... |
Store in a shed. Animal Drawn ImplementsOx PloughOx-plough is a simple type of a mouldboard plough which is pulled by a pair of oxen, donkeys or camels. Explain the functions of the following parts of an ox-ploughMain beam - It is the main component onto which all the other parts are attached. Mouldboard - It inverts t... |
Agricultural Economics III: Production Economics IntroductionThe agricultural sector is a key player in the economy of our country. It is a major employer and brings a lot of national income through foreign exchange. National IncomeThese are the total earnings from goods and services produced by a country in a period o... |
Incl ude:LandLabourCapitalManagementLandAs a factor of production, refers to the natural characteristics and properties of a given area of land. The key factor here is productivity for example soil fertility, presence of water and minerals and is always fixed and has no geographical mobility. LaborBesides being a consu... |
Types of Production FunctionsA production function assumes three forms which may be treated as different types:Increasing ReturnsConstant ReturnsDecreasing Diminishing ReturnsIncreasing ReturnsIn this type, each additional unit of input results in a larger increase in output than the preceding unit. This shows that res... |
In Zone II resources are maximally utilized resulting in maximum production. It is therefore economical or wise to produce at this level. Principle of SubstitutionStates- if the output in a production process is constant, it is profitable to substitute one input factor for another, as long as it is cheaper than its nex... |
NOTE: one input factor substitutes for the other at diminishing varying marginal rate of substitution. Principle of Equimarginal ReturnsThis principle states ; That the last unit of an input factor spent in one enterprise yields a marginal return exactly equal to the marginal return earned from the last unit invested i... |
Availability and cost of farm inputs. Government regulations policy. Security. Communication and transport facilitiesFarm BudgetingFarm budgeting is the process of estimating the future outcomes of a proposed farm plan,That is; the future incomes and expenses of a farm plan. Importance of Farm BudgetingIt helps the far... |
Examples are:Short-term CreditRepayable within one year and is advanced for the purchase of;seeds,fertilizers,animal feeds . Medium-term CreditRepayable within 2 - 5 years and is used to finance projects such as; fencing materials, purchase of livestock, light farm equipment . Long-term CreditRepayable period is up to ... |
New production technique. Obsolescence for example machinery may become outdated or obsolete within a short time. Death of either farmer or livestock. Natural catastrophies such as;floods,drought,earthquakes,storm and strong winds which may destroy crops or kill the animals. Ways in Which Farmers Adjust to Risks and Un... |
It should be written and signed by the authorised officer. It is written in duplicate and the original is given to the supplier. Financial Books Ledger:Is a book which contains individual accounts. It is a principle book of accounts in which entries contained in all the other books are entered. It is a storehouse of al... |
Assets can be divided into two:Fixed assets: assets of permanent nature and not easily converted into cash. Current assets: assets which can be easily converted into cash. Liabilities are claims to the farmer's property such as bank overdraft and debts payable. They are divided into:Current liabilities - debts which mu... |
Bearing of risks - Such as fire risk, price fluctuation. Financing or expenditure on other processes. Packaging or putting into small packs and labelling. Packing or putting produce In containers such as bags. Marketing Agencies and InstitutionsMiddlemen itinerant trader - are the people who buy from the producer and s... |
SupplySupply is the quantity of any commodity which is offered for sale at any price at a given time. The law of supply states that when price rises, quantity supplied increases and when price falls quantity supplied decreases other factors held constant . The curve rises from left to right upwards. This means that peo... |
Storage of members' produce before transmission to market points. Provision of credit facilities to members on easy terms. Training and education of members on improved farming techniques. Offering farm machinery services to their members on hire terms for farm operations. Co-operatives may invest in other viable ventu... |
Examples are the Coffee Board, Pyrethrum Board, Cotton Seed and Lint Marketing Board, Tea Boards, National Cereals and Produce Board, Kenya Meat Commission, the Dairy Board of Kenya and others. Their marketing functions are to look for market and better prices. Research OrganizationThese are research centres which amon... |
Agroforestry is a method of farming which has become increasingly important. DefinitionThis is the practice of integrating a variety of land useIt combines tree growing, pasture and crop production practice on the same piece of land to improve the output of the land. Forms of AgroforestryAgroforestry;It is a combinatio... |
Sesbania sesban sesbania ;Fodder,Nitrogen fixation,Shade, Fuel wood. Calliandra calothyrsus calliandra ;Fuel wood,Fodder,Nitrogen fixation,Shade, Bee forage. Persea american avocado ;Fodder,Fruit production,Shade,Fuel wood. Mangifera indica mango ;Fruit production,Shade trees,Wind break,Soil protection, Fuel wood. Char... |
Lower survival rate after transplanting. Containerized nursery:The seedlings in this type of nursery are raised in containers such as pots, polythene bags or tubes and tins. AdvantagesHigher survival rate after transplanting. No root damage. Successful in arid areas. DisadvantagesLabour intensive. Difficult to get cont... |
Watering:Done by use of a watering canDone twice a day in the morning and in the evening. Pricking out:It is the removal of seedlings in an overcrowded area to another nursery bed,This allows the seedlings to grow strong and healthy. Root pruning:It is the cutting of the roots longer than the pots. Root pruning is done... |
The unwanted part may be due to breakage, overcrowding, pests or disease attacks and over production. Pruning initiates growth of shoots and trains the tree to have the required shape. Regular cutting back of the trees is known as coppicing,It is done at the beginning of each cropping season to reduce competition for w... |
Steep slopes - as contour hedges to encourage water seepage. Tree Harvesting MethodsPollarding;This is the extensive cutting back of the crown of the tree about 2-3 meters above the ground level to harvest all the side branches. It stimulates the development of a new crown and branches. Coppicing;Cutting the main stem ... |
PHYSICS SCHEMES OF WORKFORM ONE 2019TERM IREFERENCES:Secondary Physics KLBComprehensive Secondary PhysicsPrinciples of PhysicsGolden TipsTeacher s BookPHYSICS SCHEMES OF WORKFORM ONE TERM IIREFERENCES:Secondary Physics KLBComprehensive Secondary PhysicsPrinciples of PhysicsGolden TipsTeacher s BookPHYSICS SCHEMES OF WO... |
REVISION ESSAY QUESTIONS:THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE BY BERTLOIT BRECHTQ1. Having given birth does not qualify someone to be mother of a child, but the care and nurture offered to that child is the one that does so. With illustrations from Bertloit Brecht s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, qualify this statement. 20 marks An... |
BodyThe Grand Duke is involved in war with the Persians. This dispute is resolved by the Grand Duke being overtaken alongside his princess. -. There is a dispute between goat herders and the fruit farmers over the ownership of a certain valley. -. A neighboring group of peasants from another valley intends to utilize t... |
A chalk circle is drawnon the floor. Michael is placed at the center. The plaintiff Natella Abashwili and thedefendant, Grusha Vashnadze step up to the circle. Each gets the child by one hand andthe real mother of the child is the one who pulls him out of the circle Grusha lets go thechild for the two times that they a... |
Her unwelcoming brother, Lavrenti Vashnadze and his equally antisocial wife, Aniko, are deterrent to her resolve to raise Michael. She goes through an embarrassing and humiliating marriage to Jussup for the sake of the child. Grusha endures a harrowing trial in Azdak s court to reclaim the boy through the Chalk Circle ... |
Due to the honest atmosphere and mutual respect, the two groups agree, eat together andget entertained together. Q5. A person controlled by greed has no sense of justice drawing your illustrations fromThe Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertloit Brecht, write an essay supporting this statement. 20 marks Ans. IntroductionIt i... |
-Governor Georgi Abashwili is so concerned about personal confront including constructing a new wing on the palace that he doesn t care about his people s petitions. He even ignores a government messages from the capital and shows no interest to what is happening in the front. ConclusionFrom the afore going it is true ... |
Page 30 When Grusha Vashnadze left the city on the Grusinian highway some milk -Grusha sings, the song of the four generals which makes the reader aware of thevolatile political situation at that time. There was war in Iran and she was thinking ofSimon who was in the war. -. She alludes compares Simon with Sosso Robark... |
- On the way she faces a lot of hardships. -. The iron shirts are pursuing her looking for Michael. -. Buys the child milk with the only money she had equivalent to a weeks pay. -. Carries the child who is heavy on her back. -. Risks closing a dangerous bridge. -. Enters an arranged marriage for the sake of Michael. 4.... |
The governor even intends to bring down the slums to create rooms for his garden. The princes and Prince Arsen Kazbeki easily stage a coup. Their poor governance is the source of suffering to this people. Iii Poor governance also encourages people to be cruel and inhuman. When Arsen Kazbeki topples his brother, he behe... |
She forgets her child at the time of war and takes clothes and boots instead, pg 25 The maid escapes with the child to save his life but Natella later goes for the child because she wants to inherit the governor s estate. She loses both the child and the estate. WII The fat prince greed and hunger for powerEliminates h... |
20 marks Ans. IntroductionThe statement means that if someone has to be given something, it should be on the basis that they are best suited for it or must have shown similar ability Accept any other relevant introduction, general or contextualized, making reference to the textc. I in the prologue, the valley is given ... |
In the Caucasian Chalk Circle, such a person is Grusha. Grusha goes through many challenges in order to save and adopt Michael. Some of these challenges are discusses below. Accept any other relevant introductionContent C i She sacrifices the little she has in order to sustain Michael. She buys milk expensively. Ii She... |
IntroductionYou need not be a biological mother to become motherly. Strangers can act more responsibly than real mothers. This is clearly illustrated by Grusha, a kitchen maid, in the play, The Caucasian Chalk Circle as shown below;Body- Natella Abashwili, the biological mother of Michael abandons the child as she flee... |
2014walterakach gmail.comTable of ContentsThe guilt, Rayda Jacobs 2 When The Sun Goes Down, Goro wa Kamau .8Leaving, Moyez G. Vassanji ...15The War of the Ears, Moses Isegawa 21The Mirror, Haruki Murakami .30Diamond Dust, Anita Desai 35Arrested Development, Sandisile Tshuma 42Sandra Street, Michael Anthony ...48Twiligh... |
ClimaxWilliam offers to work for the money. He says it s too much. She opens the gate for him to clean her garden, despite doubts. He however refuses to stop working when she Lilian makes the request. She had to go into the3house for the phone was ringing. William followed her there. Falling ActionLilian bids him to le... |
She wonders whether it is racist to it one were afraid to open doors to strangers. She does it anyway to make for the guilt of benefitting from the old regime. External ConflictWilliam Sidlay threatens Lilian physically. She gives Tembi Tor the first command which allowed them to terrorise but not draw blood. She wonde... |
Calm courageous brave6The fact that he forged a letter to gain entry into white homes dishonestThe fact that he wanted the five rand besides demanding for 10 rand. GreedyThe fact that he knew Lilian lived alone and that no one was going to come to her aid. SchemingThe fact that he moved towards Lilian when she threaten... |
Kanja informs him that it is rumoured that he is marrying Maureen. We learn that people suspect that Maureen is infected with the HIV virus. Steve confirms it is true. Steve then relates the sad circumstances of Maureen s marriage to an abusive and promiscuous soldier. When Kanja meets Maureen, she unashamedly opens up... |
He has made a decision that has not gone down well with the villagers. They believe that he deserves better than marrying Maureen. This is because10Maureen is HIV positive. However, no one is ready to seek his opinion on the matter but they all talk behind his back about his affair with Maureen. His decision to marry M... |
She suffers from nausea after a few bites, what is more she yearns for death. Despite his remonstrations with her that she banishes such thoughts of death from her head she wouldn t stop. Pp26-27 Maureen s sense of guilt finally gets the better of Steve. Her deep seated sense of guilt reinforced by the careless talk of... |
Subsequently she refuses to eat and it is hinted that she may have stopped taking her drugs- pp26 Steve reminds her that she has to eat and take her drugs daily. When forced to eat pp26 she develops nausea and says that she longs to rest euphemism for die. At the hospital, she tells the nurse that she is dying. Pp28 pp... |
Using Goro wa Kamau s When the Sun Goes Down for your illustrations show that this is true. 15Leaving by Moyez G. VassanjiSettingThe story is set in Dar es salaam, Tanzania. We first meet the family leaving on Uhuru Street where the Narrator s mother runs a shop. Later they move to the residential area of Upanga, upon ... |
She bids Aloo not to smoke nor drink and not to marry a white woman. Her fears allayed, she sends Aloo to America for further studiesConflictThis story is about Aloo s determination to study medicineThe first conflict he faces is bureaucracy and corruption. On pp 35 the narrator hints at this:But some bureaucratic hand... |
Characters and Characterisation. Aloo a intelligent scores straight A s in his final examrespectful -pp 36 He had raised hisvoice to her, the first time I saw him that. -pp 37, they stood up whenVelji came in. C determined: - studied hard in order to study medicine- wrote many applications with the aim of getting a var... |
This shows that she understands that through education her children would improve their lot. FearThe main conflict in this story is Aloo s mother s reluctance to let him go study in a foreign country. This conflict is borne of fearThat her son doesn t care much for the familyThat something could happen to himThat he co... |
A rebel group, God s Victorious Brigades, is fighting to stamp corruption out of the country in the light of their interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The ultimate sufferers are civilians. The story s main setting is Nandere Primary School with episodes in Ma Beeda s home and the forest. Most of the activities take... |
All the rules and guidelines come from him. This involves indoctrinating the child soldiers with his interpretation of the Ten Commandments and heavy doses of barbaric punishment for offences against his rules. Similarly, the soldiers mete out barbaric punishment like chopping off the ears of those who do not support t... |
Their professed goal is to stamp corruption of out of the country. The conflict between the rebels and the government has also brought on conflict between the civilians and government on one hand and civilians and rebels on the other. Major Azizima s father died in the hands of the government security apparatus. They h... |
Moreover it would mean surrendering his power something he knew he would not do freely. Characters and Characterisation. Ma BeedaA widow, entrepreneur and a single parent, she has a son, BeedaHardworking started her school under a mango tree but is now a full-fledged learning centre. Determined ResoluteHers is the last... |
People suffer mutilation in the hands of the rebels. The letter sent to Ma Beeda warns her that ears that don t listen to their master get chopped off and hers would be next. Azizima tells us thatBlue Beast forced him to chop off his mother s ears. Azizima chops of the ear of a villager and keeps it as a trophy and pro... |
When his mother summons him, he drops what he is doing and goes to her for example when he was talking to Miss Bengi and his mother summons him he goes to her despite the fact he would have liked to continue talking to her. She too is respectful of him when he burns their supper; she resists the urge to raise her voice... |
This is at a school junior high school in which he was employed as a lone night watchman at the age of 18 or 19. The night was windy and hot. Mosquitoes buzzed all over amidst the noise of the wind. The broken gate of the swimming pool made banging rhythmic banging noises in the dark night. This description creates a s... |
The third conflict is between the narrator and his parents. At seventeen they expected him to proceed to college after high school. He declines, and instead wonders all over Japan working at various manual jobs. The last conflict is internal. He believes that he is immune to the supernormal experiences. Yet he has this... |
35Diamond Dust by Anita Desai1.SettingThe story is set in Bharti Nagar, an urban civil servants residential area in India. The events take us from Mr. Das house, to the streets of Bharti Nagar, into the Lodi Gardens and down the alleys of the town. 2.PlotWe are introduced to Mr. and Mrs. Das and Diamond, Mr. Das proble... |
He bellows at the postman, chases him and tears his trousers. The result is Mrs. Das doesn t get her mail regularly for it is thrown at the hedge. Then there are the other service providers: electricity meter readers telephone repair men, and garbage collectors who do not render their services to the Das family because... |
Diamond and the neighboursThe children would throw stones or sticks at Diamond, then he d break loose and run after them nipping at their heels or stopping when they fell in the dust. When his phobia for uniform grew he would chase children on their way to or from school. The result was that they could38neither go to t... |
They feel he s taken leave of his senses and this worries them. Further, they feel that his behavior embarrasses them before their superiors, the under-Secretary and the retired Joint Secretary. When Diamond starts running after school children, many parents went to complain to Das but he remained deaf to their pleas. ... |
What is the significant event? Mr. Das obsessive behavior towards Diamond. What is the aim of the author? The author cautions against obsessive behavior Mr. Das does because of the excessive love he has for his dog. Besides, he is oblivious to the pain it causes other people. The author also cautions against the danger... |
She learns that the police take bribes to ignore the contraband. She learns that the lot of the cross-border traders is way better than that of highly educated Zimbabweans. For example she and her friend Lihile who has despaired of her lot ever improving. From the44passenger who joins them at Gwanda, she learns that ig... |
They pay off border officials, highway police, magistrates even farmers. For example, Gloria pays a border official in order to cross the border without a pass. The driver buys a ticket from the police to avoid paying more bribes on the way. Characters and Characetrisation i Narratora Observant-vividly describes the bo... |
Black -outs are common place and house taps are drypayment defaulters are sold off to Nigerians in Johannesburgtraders sometimes have to cross the crocodile infested river Limpopo. At times they are attacked by banditsThe practice of Vigoroni has robbed them of etiquette. The narrator is elbowed painfully by a tiny old... |
49Sandra Street by Michael AnthonySettingThe story is set in a suburb street called Sandra. It is no ordinary street. It houses a residential area, a school and it leads into a forested hill. Sandra Street maintains a somewhat natural environment: there are no fences or gates, a few houses, a small population and its p... |
In his last encounter with Mr. Blades at the window, Steven invites him to the hills to inspect his bananas. At the hills, Mr. Blades, who had thought the trip was a nature trail walk, is disappointed that Steven only focuses on the ripening bananas and not the view of Sandra Street the hill affords them. ConflictThe m... |
Steven experiences internal conflict. First, although he likes to hear the steel band they do not have one in Sandra Street he puts it in his composition to disparage the other side of town he describes its sound as horrible pp98 . As Steven begins to appreciate the beauty of Sandra Street, it also fills him with a sen... |
The narrator scales up his immigration time-table and starts his illegal immigration journey. At the start of the journey he meets Patience, a girl he travels with to the Tangier camp. During the journey they face a lot of suffering. It is a bumpy ride and the sandstorms drive sand everywhere. In the day, they have to ... |
The other level of conflict is internal. The narrator through his dreams understands that his mother s advice was worth taking yet he can t or wouldn t take it. We will now examine conflict in the chronological order that they are developed. Illegal immigrant and foreign embassies pp109 The foreign embassies will not g... |
He does not heed his mother s advice that he stays away from Patience and the trip. Illegal immigrants and natureWhen the trek gets underway, the travelers find out that they can only travel in the night and the winds are very cold then. The sand too presents a problem. It hurts their eyes, stings their nostrils and ma... |
He is willing to pay part of her fare. Na veTrusts Patience and tells her where his money is hidden. She steals it and abandons him at the camp. BraggartHe brags to Patience about his football skills and how he was going to make a career out of playing football in Europe. IrreligiousHis mother has not taught him religi... |
IronyThe most important instance of irony comes at the start of the story and it s concluded at the end. The narrator dupes his master and steals his cash. During the trek he befriends Patience. He builds a tent at the camp which he shares with her; he promises to meet the cost of her crossing the sea and to prove that... |
62 The narrator s employerHe deals in marijuana. This drug corrupts the youth. What is more is that he uses the young Jean to peddle his drugs and pays him peanuts. The result is that Jean steals from him. The narrator s motherShe raises Jean with the intention of pimping him out to homosexuals. This is child abuse. Sh... |
Pp 121 Collective folly of illegal of illegal immigrationAt the end of the first dream, the narrator s mother tells him that the lesson to be learned from the deportation story is that the world is round and that means if one ran too fast, one might end up chasing the very homeland one is running from. In his second dr... |
65Figuratively too, the sun is not yet up for this would be immigrants. They are not realistic in their ambition to immigrate. B Significant eventThe notice of revenge on Jean by the drug baron is the significant event in this story. He says that he could not afford to be sodomised against his will so he flees pp109 . ... |
67When she returns, their lot has not improved. She is shipped to school where she suffers in the hands of nasty children because of the scars left by chicken pox. She also suffers in the hands of inconsiderate teachers who sent her back to the bullies. What is more, the economic hardship makes her mother send her back... |
This movement to her grandparents happens twice. When she reunites with her mother at the age of 2, she has to go to school. This is the only way her mother could go to work. School exposes her to more loneliness. She is tormented by both pupils and teachers pp129-30 . Emily s conflict with her mother worsens when the ... |
Further, she was more confident and articulate than Emily. She stole Emily s jokes and riddles and the audience lived her. The most cruel thing was losing or breaking Emily s precious things without apology and getting away with it pp133-4 The instance between Emily and a boy she loved Emily loved a boy painfully throu... |
Character and characterisationThe main character in this story is well developed. She is brought out as a very ordinary woman who has both weaknesses and strengths. StrengthsDeterminedShe looks after her family despite the economic strain. She says that she d go out to work or go out to look for work pp128 . 72Responsi... |
She says that when it came to balancing the hurts and the needs between Emily and Susan, she did badly in the earlier years. This was because she felt that Emily had a corroding resentment towards Susan. She did not smile as readily with Emily as she did with the other children. She remembers the old neighbour s admoni... |
At eight months her father walks out on them. She has to be left with a neighbour, who didn t like her very much, when her mother went out to work or look for work. Later she is sent to her father s relatives because her mother could not afford to raise her. At her grandparents she comes down with small pox which scars... |
Besides putting in long hours for the people who employ her, the narrator had to put up even longer hours to take care of her own household chores. It is also a symbol of the tortured thoughts and memories that go through the narrator s mind as she tries to understand why Emily turned out the way she did. Finally it is... |
The narrator however comes from a culture in which pride at a drinking place depends on the number of bottles that one places on the table. Every time he rings for a hostess, it is Tatha that appears and politely declines to serve him an extra drink unless he has finished what he s been served. Towards the end of the j... |
Finally, fate would have it that the airline, in a bid to offer world class services, had resorted to seeking passengers views on the flight and that the drunken Zgambo would80make his comments that Tatha had been rude to him throughout the flight. That s it. A man s ego took advantage of company policy and ruined ta f... |
She dismisses his pleas the he sees the CEO sooner just so that she can get back to her telephone conversation. Hardly a world class service. The call was not a business one. Character and characterisationZgamboCareless irresponsibleHe made disparaging comments about Tatha s work to take revenge on an employee who had ... |
They were quick to dismiss Tatha on account of a comment from a solitary passenger who was drunk. The claims were not verifiable. What is more, they were at pains to rescind an unfair decision that they had made even after a personal retraction by the complainant. They also have double standards: passengers on their pl... |
The rain therefore symbolises the suffering that the two undergo. POVThe story is told from the first person point of view. The narrator makes a mistake for which he wishes to make amends. The story is about the challenges he faces in his attempt to retract his comment on Tatha s conduct on the flight to South Africa. ... |
The story is completely devoid of Western influence and examines the shortcomings of the inherited chieftaincy and how this affects the chief s family. Further, it examines the morality of the decisions these people make owing to the pressure of the inherited chieftaincy. The PlotChief Mboga goes to the foot of the Ram... |
She has no choice but to tell the truth. The chief has a moral obligation to punish her for the wrong that she had done. It was taboo to throw away a new born child and she was therefore not worthy of being the chief s wife He chooses not to and instead organises a celebration and keeps his family together. ConflictMbo... |
He makes up his mind to keep Achieng despite the mistake that she had committed because losing her would break his heart. Further, he argues that she had borne a lot of pain when she lost the opportunity of seeing her child. Character and characterisationMboga: traditional, merciful, strict, authoritarian Owiny: resolu... |
POVThis story is told from a third person point of view. This is appropriate because it is a controlled admiration of a leader by his subjects. Any other point of view would have been subjective. The audience is able to find reason to admire the leadership of Mboga as he deals with a difficult period in his tenure invo... |
One thing that is very clear is their poverty. But we also get a great insight into their self-esteem. The banana plantations they pass on their way to their destination depict the monotony of life which is made worse by the hot weather that brings life to a standstill for a couple of hours every day. This stifling hea... |
Pp168 The woman and the girl walked over to the shady side of the street. Pp168 It was two. At that time, weighed down by the drowsiness, the town was taking a siesta. Pp168 94In some houses, it was so hot that the residents ate lunch in the patio. Pp168 At the parish house we are told, An electric fan was humming insi... |
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