Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

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William is like an engineer considering “he built things with whatever he could find.” (pg 180 paragraph 1 by William Kamkwamba) . In chapter six of the book, William is anxious about going to school. His main goal was to be a scientist and “when he heard the scores to go to secondary school was out he was filled with joy but the school that he was assigned to was a poor community school without science programs.” (pg 100 paragraph 2 by William Kamkwamba) .

Is there an issue in your community that is causing problems and making people's lives harder? For inspiration, let me tell you about some big community issues and the people who solved them. In the book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba, William finds a book about windmills and makes his own for his community helping to solve their water, electricity, and famine problems. In the book, Fever 1793, by Laurie Anderson, a doctor named Dr. Rush tries to save a patient and in the process discovers that the yellow fever virus is what is violently killing the people of Philadelphia. William Kamkwamba influenced events and impacted society with his ideas and by solving problems in his local community.

Famine is a sad reality for many people across the world, forcing kids, pets, and adults to go hungry for days. In his memoir and movie The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba tells the story of how he saved his family and village from famine by persevering to build a windmill to help create energy for his village in Malawi. Both the movie and the book show his resilience through his actions and his work ethic. My first reason Willam showed perseverance was in his actions. One movie scene shows how he had to fight other people to get a little bit of grain for his family at the trading center.

He ends up building a time machine to go to the future and change his destiny. In The Boy who Harnessed the Wind, William is a struggling boy in Africa. To save his community by building a windmill and bringing them electricity and water. William and Lewis are inventors who have similar and different ideas and ways to invent. Throughout their invention process, William and Lewis experienced struggles

William Kamkwamba, who is he? What is he like? What does he like doing? William is a curious young boy towards the beginning of the book. He matures into a brilliant young man. William is curious and very brilliant in multiple ways. He creates electricity for the people of malawi and his curiosity brought him there. William affected many people, people who didn’t even believe in him in the first place.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind was a very inspiring story. A boy that came from such beginnings would have never been expected to do what William Kamkwamba did, especially in a third world country. Although some of the book wandered off into what seemed like random information, it all was Kamkwamba’s life and described what he did in his childhood and up. Also, this random information gave detail to what his surroundings were like. For example, the gumball story in the beginning showed how much his village believed in magic, making it that much more spectacular of him to do something like create a renewable energy source in a place that knew more about magic and less about science. The book motivated me to do something great, even though I

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In the story “The Boy who Harnessed the Wind” William’s two best traits are his confidence and intelligence. William shows throughout the story that he is very smart and also interested in school. He likes to experiment with many things like radios and how to get electricity working throughout his own home by using bikes and wires. First of all, William is very confident in the things and experiments that he does. William likes to make things and some people will doubt him and think he is just over exaggerating, but in reality he doesn’t doubt himself when doing these experiments because he knows he can make them work.

Using only the diagrams from his most cherished book, “Using Energy”, William built his own windmill from junk yard scraps and eventually supplied his entire family with electricity and water. Inspired by the despair of his countries' situation, William heroically brought hope and opportunity to the entire nation.

Some individuals living in poverty with a determination to succeed work hard all of their lives to become what everybody doubted they could. Despite of their financial problems, drug and crime surroundings, or difficulties in the language skills, their desire to triumph fuels their persistence. Those who make it to success are the few living examples of the purest form of hero anyone can be. They are not only their own heroes but also the heroes of the poor children who dream of becoming like them someday.

In Animal Farm, the Windmill is used to symbolize the power of the pigs. The Windmill is first brought to the animal’s attention by Snowball; he learns how to build one, the advantages of one, and draws out the plans. The animals on the farm are divided about the idea of the windmill. Napoleon slowly works his way up to take control of the farm by telling the animals on the farm that the windmill is

“A wind turbine is a machine for converting the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy”. (1) The inventor of the first electric wind turbine was Clevelander Charles Brush, who ran his entire Euclid Avenue mansion off of one for 20 years, which later made the cover of Scientific American in 1888. (2) Although the use of alternate energy didn't rise a great deal afterward, this event did open the eyes for many environmentalists. Wind power is only one of our several “energy source[s] whose ‘fuel’ is free and will never be exhausted” (3) with the pros and cons not completely weighed out as to whether it will be truly beneficial or not. The two main issues regarding wind turbines are the environmental effects that they have and the

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Kamkwamba, after some thought about a bicycle dynamo, his fondness for radios, and the wind levels at his home, decided to create a makeshift windmill. He experimented with a small model using a cheap dynamo and, using this experience, eventually made a functioning windmill that powered some electrical appliances in his family's house. Local farmers and journalists investigated the spinning device and Kamkwamba's fame in international news skyrocketed. A blog about his accomplishments was written on Hacktivate and Kamkwamba took part in the first event celebrating his particular type of ingenuity called Maker Faire Africa, in Ghana in August 2009.[2]Kamkwamba was born in a family of relative poverty and relied primarily on farming to survive. According to his biography, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, his father had been a rough fighting man who changed after discovering the Christian God. A crippling famine forced Kamkwamba to drop out of school, and he was not able to return to school because his family was unable to afford the tuition fees. In a