What is the novel:Cry the Beloved Country about? what did it have to do with helping end apartheid?
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Here's some basic info about Cry, the Beloved Country:\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cry/
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Lily Owens, the protagonist and narrator of the story, runs away from home after her stand-in mother, Rosaleen, with a vague memory of having accidentally shot her mother at the age of four. Rosaleen is arrested for assault, disturbing the peace, and theft. Specifically, on her way to register to vote, she steals two church fans and pours snuff on the shoes of three of the most racist people in town after being verbally assaulted with racial slurs. After being beaten with a flashlight by the police, Rosaleen is sent to the hospital where Lily breaks her out of jail. Together, they hitchhike to Tiburon, South Carolina on the hunch that Lily's mother, who had written the city name on the back of a photo of a black Virgin Mary, had once lived there.\n\nAfter arriving in Tiburon, they spot a pink house on the side of the road and are taken in by the Boatwright sisters, who are the owners of a beekeeping farm. They supply Rosaleen and Lily with housing, and Lily becomes an apprentice beekeeper under the guidance of August, head of the household.\n\nZach, a high school student who works at the apiary to pay for college and become a lawyer, is arrested after refusing to reveal which of his friends threw a bottle at a group of white men protesting a White Hollywood movie star who is bringing a Negro woman with him to a premiere. When May, one of the sisters, hears of this, she commits suicide by drowning herself.
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The answers to your questions are available on the free, online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Look here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_africa\n\nHope this helps!
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I researched online and this is the best answer I could find. I am providing the link so you can see all the related information as provided therein.\n\nOne of the most significant events in the history of South Africa was the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. Although the protagonists were Britain and the two Boer Republics, the population of South Africa as a whole became embroiled in the war either directly or indirectly.\n\nThe Boers were comprised of the combined forces of the South African Republic and the Republic of the Orange Free State.  The Boer Republics declared war on 11th October 1899 and the conflict ended on 31st May 1902, a duration of 2 years and 8 months.\n\nThe two principal elements of the Boer nation were the settlers of the Dutch trading company at the Cape of Good Hope, sturdy farmers and tradesmen belonging to the proletarian class of Holland, and a subsequent contingent of French Huguenot refugees and their families who joined as colonists soon after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.\n\nA number of interrelated factors led to the Second Anglo-Boer War. These include the conflicting political ideologies of imperialism and republicanism, the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, tension between political leaders, the Jameson Raid and the Uitlander franchise.\n\nConflicting political ideology\n\nAfter the First Anglo-Boer War the British government did not give up its ambition for unifying South Africa under Imperial British rule. The two Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic or Transvaal still maintained their desire for independence. The Boer republics were a stumbling block for the British Empire.\n\nThe Uitlanders were not only from Britain, but came from all over the world to make money on the goldfields in the Transvaal. Some of them were not interested in the political situation in the republic and were not concerned about the fact that they couldn’t vote. Some Uitlanders felt that they contributed to the exploitation of the riches in the republic and had the right to a say in the way the country was being run.\n\nThe Transvaal government realised that this could be a threat to the republic’s independence, but also knew that it couldn’t ignore the Uitlanders’ demands. The foreigners could apply for citizenship or naturalisation after 5 years of living in the Transvaal. A Second Volksraad was created in 1890 and new laws were made. Uitlanders who had been naturalised for two years could now vote. The Second Volksraad only had say in local matters in Johannesburg and on the mines; any bills it put forward could only become laws if the First Volksraad agreed. Only Uitlanders who had been in the country for a full 14 years or longer could vote for the first Volksraad.
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Zionism is a political movement and ideology that supports a homeland for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel, where the Jewish nation originated over 3200 years ago and where Jewish kingdoms and self-governing states existed at various times in history. While Zionism is based in part upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, the modern movement was originally secular, beginning largely as a response to rampant antisemitism in Europe and the Muslim World during the 19th Century . After a number of advances and setbacks, and after the Holocaust had destroyed Jewish society in Europe, the Zionist movement culminated in the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
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It's short and to the point. The pain comes through uncomfortably. \n\nIt leaves no doubt about what it's about, yet leaves a lot to the imagination. I'm assuming the author meant to make the reader feel something, especially pain, grief and loss.  If so, they accomplished their goal. \n\nI'm interested in the "weird" book you found it in. What book?
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I just read a book called "The Blood of Abraham" by Jimmy Carter. It has insight into the problem and possible solutions. There are chapters regarding the other nations involved views: Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Jordon, Syria, Libya, USA, etc...Politics usually bore me but I found the book interesting and informative.\nYou can get it at the library.
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The country is Lesotho, a constitutional monarchy.  When South Africa was under British rule, it was administered as a separate colony (apart from a few years) and became a its own country when colonial rule ended.  It looks like it was separate because it was too much trouble for the South African government to want to deal with in the 1870s and early 1880s, so they made the British Crown deal with it.
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Everyone please wake up! I am from SA and there are no wars\nor such stuff going on here! The only war that is going on here is the war against AIDS and poverty. So please get your facts correct before you try to answer something about another country.
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Written by  Dorothea MacKellar about Australia...and I couldnt agree more\n\nThe love of field and coppice,\n  Of green and shaded Lanes,\n  Of ordered woods and gardens,\n  Is running in your veins;\n  Strong love of grey-blue distance,\n  Brown streams and soft, dim skies -\n  I know but cannot share it,\n  My love is otherwise.\n\nI love a sunburnt country,\n  A land of sweeping plains,\n  Of ragged mountain ranges,\n  Of drought and flooding rains,\n  I love her far horizons,\n  I love her jewel sea,\n  Her beauty and her terror -\n  The wide brown land for me.\n\nThe tragic ring-barked forests\n  Stark white beneath the moon,\n  The sapphire-misted mountains,\n  The hot gold hush of noon.\n  Green tangle of the brushes\n  Where lithe lianas coil,\n  An orchids deck the tree-tops\n  And ferns the crimson soil.\n\nCore of my heart, my country!\n  Her pitiless blue sky,\n  When sick at heart around us\n  We see the cattle die -\n  But then the grey clouds gather\n  And we can bless again\n  The drumming of an army,\n  The steady, soaking rain.\n\nCore of my heart, my country!\n  Land of the Rainbow Gold,\n  For flood and fire and famine,\n  She pays us back threefold;\n  Over the thirsty paddocks,\n  Watch, after many days, \n  The filmy veil of greenness\n  That thickens as we gaze.\n\nAn opal-hearted country,\n  A wilful, lavish land -\n  All you who have not loved her,\n  You will not understand -\n  Though Earth holds many splendours,\n  Wherever I may die,\n  I know to what brown Country\n  My homing thoughts will fly.
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"The novel tells a story of the Czech veteran Josef Švejk who, after having been drafted back into the army as cannon fodder to die for an Emperor he despises, proceeds to undermine the Austro-Hungarian Army's war effort by "švejking". "Švejking" is the method for surviving "švejkárna", which is a situation or institution of systemic absurdity requiring the employment of "švejking" for one to survive and remain untouched by it. Švejk's method of subverting the Austrian Empire is to carry out his orders to an absurd conclusion. "Švejkovat", "to švejk"' has since become a common Czech word.\n\nThe action of the novel begins in the very first days of the First World War and describes events taking place during its first year, as Svejk joins the army and has various adventures, first in rear areas, and then during the long journey to the front lines. The unfinished novel breaks off abruptly before Svejk has a chance to be involved in any combat or even enter the trenches."
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Sophie's Choice was a novel by William Styron, which was later made into a motion picture starring Meryl Streep.\n\nIn the story, the main character Sophie has to choose which one of her two children will live and which one will die.  It is a choice force upon her by the Nazis.  She chooses, and is stricken with a guilt for the lost child that she will never overcome.\n\nSo when confronted with a Sophie's Choice, one is confronted with a choice which cannot be avoided, and in which none of the choices results in a good outcome.
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The themes of the book are traditional verses change; savagery and courage...any of these ideas can fit into which ever theme you are focusing on.\n\nPretend that you are a newspaper reporter looking for stories in colonial Africa, and you have arrived in Umuofia just after Okonkwo’s burial.  You have already interviewed all the major characters connected with the events leading up to Okonkwo’s death.  Write a profile of Okonkwo for your newspaper, describing his personality, his life and his tragic end.  Include quotations from at least three people you interviewed, such as Ekwefi, Ezinma, Nwoye and Obierika, showing their individual views on Okonkwo.  Thus, tailor the interviews around the theme.  You could have a full news team~ anchor, co-anchor, field reporters, etc.\n\nAchebe originally planned for Things Fall Apart as the first part of a longer novel, which would have shown Nwoye’s adult life as Isaac Okonkwo, and the life of Nwoye’s son Obi—Okonkwo’s grandson.  Pretend you are a novelist, write what you would  have happen to Isaac and Obi Okonkwo during the course of the Twentieth century, considering the cultural changes that might occur in Nigeria.  Write a chapter in which we learn about the relationship between Isaac and Obi ~ this can show the change (theme).\n\nPretend you are the spirit of Okonkwo, returned from the grave to speak to Mr. Hammerstrom’s class about the novel Chinua Achebe wrote about you.  What do you think of the novel?  Do you think Achebe portrayed you fairly?  Why?  Why not?  In hindsight, would you have changed anything about your past life?  You can present your thought, reflections and conclusions to the class in the “spirit of Okonkwo,” remaining in Okonkwo’s character.  Again, focus on the traditional verses change.\n\nYou could each take up a character in the novel, such as Okonkwo, Obierika, Unoka, Ekwefi, Ezinma, Nwoye, or Ikemefuna, and rewrite a scene from his or her voice and position. The confrontations between the white men and the Igbo people are good incidents to use for the rewrite for your theme.  You guys could knock a very quick script and act the confrontation out for the class~use multiple roles, have a narrator explain why you chose a certain character, what role the character plays in the novel, etc. during an introduction.\n\nResearch website:\n\nhttp://projects.edtech.sandi.net/kearny/tribal/resources.html
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America works with the governments that are in place.  It protested apartheid, but worked with the government as a player in the international community.\n\nAmerica only truly targets foreign governments if it perceives them to in some way be a threat to America.  South Africa wasn't.
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Its about an African American family. An abusive father and how he treats his family.\n\nQuick summary:\nCelie, the protagonist and narrator of The Color Purple, is a poor, uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in rural Georgia. Celie starts writing letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats and rapes her. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once. Celie gave birth to a girl, whom her father stole and presumably killed in the woods. Celie has a second child, a boy, whom her father also steals. Celie’s mother becomes seriously ill and dies. Alphonso brings home a new wife but continues to abuse Celie.
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Rabbit Proof Fence\nIn 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.\n\nPinky\nPinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school.\n\nImitation of Life\nIn 1947 at Coney Island, down-on-her-luck actress Lora Meredith and her young daughter Susie meet coloured Annie Johnson and her daughter Sarah Jane... \n\nBlack like me\nBlack Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man. John.\n\nBeloved\nBased on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by a very odd stranger.\n\nThe Tuskegee Airmen (1995)\nThe true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II\n\n\nThe Birth of a Nation\nTwo brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies. The consequences of the War in their lives are shown in connection to major historical events, like the development of the Civil War itself, Lincoln's assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.\n\n\nBooks\n\n'Destined to Witness : Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany'...\n\nMassaquoi, the retired managing editor of Ebony, presents an unusual perspective on the Nazi era. The son of an "Aryan" mother and an African diplomat, he grew up in Germany on the wrong side of Nazi racial ideology, confronting not only the bigotry of his countrymen but the danger of Allied bombs on a nearly daily basis.\n\n\n'Germany's Black Holocaust, 1890-1945: The Untold Truth!'\n\nIn the 1890s Blacks were tortured in German concentration camps in Southwest Africa (now called Namibia) when Adolph Hitler was only a child. Colonial German doctors conducted unspeakable medical experiments on these emaciated helpless Africans decades before such atrocities were ever visited upon the Jews.\nThousands of Africans were massacred. Regrettably, historians neglected to properly register the slaughter—that is, to lift it from the footnote in history that it had been relegated to—until now.\nIn an attempt to give the incidents their rightful recognition in the historical context of the Holocaust, Dr. Firpo W. Carr has authored a new book entitled, Germany’s Black Holocaust: 1890–1945. In it, he reveals the startling hidden history of Black victims of the Holocaust. The mayhem and carnage date back to the turn of the 20th century, many years before there were ever any other unfortunate victims—Jew or Gentile—of the Holocaust. \n \n\n'The Other Victims : First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis'...\nThe author of Escape or Die sought survivors of other groups deemed undesirable by Hitler, including blacks, clergy, Jehovah's Witnesses, Poles, political prisoners, Gypsies (the only other group Hitler wanted to eliminate entirely) and homosexuals (very few survive and none could be found to interview). Suspenseful vignettes are enlivened by historical background, dialogue, and a not-always happy yet satisfying afterword, telling what eventually happened to each individual. Valiant efforts in the face of total degradation are nothing short of inspiring, and many of these stories are not widely known
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"Things Fall Apart" is a 1958 English-language novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.\n\nThe book is widely read in schools throughout Africa and also widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world.  It is one of the first African novels written in English to receive global critical acclaim.\n\nThe title of the book comes from the poem, "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats.\n.