The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

William kamkwamba had a very well set mind and very set ego and he would never give up on his windmill for his windmill he analyzed it and he monitored the aerodynamics of the windmill. William kamkwamba had to dig through hundreds of scraps and

Billie Wind, Billy wind is the main character in Jean Craighead George. She is stuck with a punishment to go out into the everglades. She is sent on this journey because she does not believe in the tribal legends. Billie Wind’s journey has evolved her into a believer of the tribal legends through the wildfire, building a house boat and setting sale, and getting trapped by a hurricane.

The text states, “Pulling it out, I saw it was an American textbook called Using Energy, and this book has since changed my life.” (Kamkwamba and Mealer 7). This evidence shows that if the character had never found this book, he never would have had the inspiration to build the windmill, and to make his home and community a better place. This is also important because the book also gave him the confidence he needed to try and build the windmill. In conclusion, the author's findings in the book had the most significant effect on the author because of the things they inspired him to do later

William Kamkwamba William Kamkwamba was a protagonist who had the dream to build a windmill that powered his house. William then set his mind to do that. After William was kicked out of school for not being up to date with his fines, set out and started to build a windmill. In no time at all William had built “Electric Wind” out of old parts such as: a broken bicycle, tractor fan blade, an old shock absorber, and blue gum trees. William was able to build this because he is confident, patient, and smart.

Character Analysis Essay In the novel The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William and his family live in a small town called Malawi. William is a student, that loves to learn. “...you will always find him in the town's library.” (pg 139 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.

The battle between the relationship of science and religion has always been a controversial topic in society. It has been a subject of study since the classical era from scientists, theologists, philosophers, and regular citizens. It is understandable that the perspective on culture and religion are unquestionably varied due to different geographical regions, but why are there so many heated debates regarding the global discussion and what is it that causes those controversies? Is it possible that there is more than two outlooks and theories? Jerome Lawrence and Robert E.Lee contrasts the two perspectives in Inherit the Wind by bringing back an historical and legendary trial. Matthew Harrison Brady, an established lawyer in America demonstrates his ideology in God. Addition to Mr. Brady, his arch nemesis, Henry Drummond, defends his morals by expressing his vision that evolution is where human come from.

Williams demonstrates his cognizance, and skills as a writer, as this book is a well-written piece of literature, touching upon historical

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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.

In “ The Name of the Wind” Patrick Rothfuss once said, “ It’s like everyone tells a story themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” Our identity is what we know ourselves by how others view us in the world. Their many identities that we have some examples are race, gender, fashion, class, sexuality, etc. All these identities shape the way we think, act, and view the world. We may not know it, but our identities impact one another either in a negative or positive way. Either we make our identities by our interests or what we feel like we should be viewed as. Some let others make their identity for them, they’re influenced by what they see on T.V. mainly by what celebrities are wearing. I know for me when I was younger I would watch all these NBA games and see these players wear Jordans. Jordan 's back when I was a youngin and still today where cool shoes you had popularity if you had Jordans. All the cool kids had Jordan 's and I wanted to be like that a cool kid. So I acted like someone I wasn 't, buying many pairs of Jordan’s (which are expensive) so I can fit in and so everyone can know me as a cool kid because as a little boy at Colonia Middle School I wanted to have recognition as the kid with the expensive shoes and the showy clothes. Also, I was pressured by my surroundings to buy these items because I saw a lot of kids being bullied for wearing inexpensive clothes and I didn 't

the windmill, that it was he who came up with all of the other good

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