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. These are the traits that William has. William has the ability to make his dreams come true because he is confidant. If he wasn’t confident then he wouldn’t have been able to make his windmill. William was always confident that his idea would be a success When William had discovered the circuits in radios he wanted to discover how they worked.So he tried a dynamo on it. “This time when I pedaled, the light flickered on… Mister Geoffrey, my experiment shows that the dynamo and the bulb are both working properly,I said, so why doesn’t the radio play?”(Kamkwamba,80) This shows that he keeps trying until the …show more content…
If he was not patient then he would not have been able to build the windmill. William had to take the time to learn about electricity so that he was able to connect the dynamo to the windmill. “The first thing I needed to do was connect the blades to the tractor fan, so I went to the kitchen and prepared my drill. I took the long nail with a maize-cob handle and stuck it into the embers of the fire. Once it was glowing red, I used it to bore four holes in the top of each plastic blade, then two more holes down the center. This process of heating, melting, and reheating took nearly three hours. This process of heating, melting, and reheating took nearly three hours”(Kamkwamba,194). If William was not patient then the fan blade would not have been done correctly. This shows that William is
This is Kolu Vezele. I am interested in the summer camp program for my daughter Jelena who is 4 and my six-year-old son as well. I am thinking about princess camp session 5, superheroes session 5, learn to swim camp session 4 & 6 for both of them. Maybe the splish splash and the Jr. Creation station camp. Please let me know if there is any financial assistance available for these camps. I appreciate your time and your help, thank you.
There is one person who turns around the Jacksonville jaguar’s defense his name is Yannik Ngakoue. You can call him yon for short. He was selected in the 3rd round of the NFL draft. At Maryland he had 13 ½ sacks. He is supposed to hit Denote fowler at his weak side. Yan is 21 years old. They are counting on yon to come in and produce. Yon gets up to speed quickly. The first sport that yon has ever played was soccer. He had the footwork from playing forward in soccer. He didn’t start playing football until he was in 6th grade. As a kid he watched the NFL and he decided that it would be fun playing football so then he tried it out. After one year of playing football he was shine out there on the field. Hopefully he would help out the
David Njoka is a tight end for the Cleveland Browns. Almost everyone who has played with him knows him as the freak. It’s not because he is weird or anything like that, but Njoku is just more athletic than anyone has ever seen. He has an amazing ability to jump sky high. In college he was on the track team along with football. At track he was highly know for his jumping abilities. So when it came to football he used that ability to leap over defenders to score touchdowns. In the Miami Herald they called him a “ leaping, pass-catching freak.” When Njoku was in high school he became a champion jumper. At the New Balance nationals he won high jump with a leap of six foot eleven inches. His personal best is seven foot one inch. So when it comes
After surviving their horrendous voyage across the Atlantic, both Equiano and Cuguano experience what it was to sold in a Salve market. Oladuah Equiano arrive in Barbados, after several days they were corral into a yard were at the beat of the drum saw a rush of buyers come to inspect them. He was then sent to Virginia were his name was change to Joseph, and one of his first task was to fan his new master while slept. At his master house’s he was notice by a Lieutenant of the Royal Navy named Michael Henry Pascal and he purchase him for at least thirty pounds. His new name became Gustavus Vassa. He was treated fairly by his new master. He learned how to be a sailor and travel all over the world even Antarctica. Pascal sent his to attend to
Kam Chancellor is irreplaceable in the Seattle Seahawks’ defense. His performance is crucial for the Seahawks to not only secure a seed in the playoffs, but make another deep run in hopes to capture another Lombardi Trophy once they get there.
let's go back in time to the island of kahoolawe before the bombing if the united states did not take over illegally the island of kahoolawe wouldn't have been bombed and we would have another island for us. since it got bombed we can't do anything on the island because of the bombs that never exploded if it wasn't for the navy we would have our island still yet and we wouldn't have to rely on the united states of america the land of the crooks. they illegally occupied us. if they ever decide to pull out and leave us stranded it would be over for us that's why i think we would be better of if we didn't get occupied illegally back in the day.
Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator and New York Times Bestselling author of 24 books. In 2015, his book, The Crossover, received the 2015 John Newbery Medal for the Most Distinguished Contribution to American literature for Children, the Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor, The NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize (Kwame Alexander Bio,2017). Alexander travels the world to inspiring young people and plant the “seeds of literary love.” He is( the square root of 64 multiplied by four minus five plus the number of NBA championship rings Phil Jackson has plus the age of my six-year-old minus one) years old. Kwame Alexander believes poetry can change the world.
Around the month of April in 1847, Joseph Kello’s mother, Rachel Lindell, gets pregnant. Rachel faces the traumatic task of telling her parents that she, unmarried at the age of 19, is pregnant. For approximately six months, she endures the changes in her appearance indicating to friends and neighbors that she is pregnant. Finally, on Thursday, October 7, 1847, Joseph’s father, Charles H. Kello, marries Rachel at the Asbury Methodist Church in the city of Wilmington.* Three months later, on January 6, 1848, Joseph is born. (L7) 62) (L184)
Williams short stories told in The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind contribute to the larger narrative by showing his past experiences and upbringing which helps show why, and how, he was able to build a windmill. One of the stories he tells us is about is how at the age of 13, he discovered the radio, and along with Geoffrey taught himself to fix people’s radios. Even early on, he was into science and very resourceful. He taught himself to fix a radio, which almost no-one else in the village could do and this experience was a building block he would use later to build his windmill. Another example from The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind are the stories he tells about his hunting and the traps they would use to kill birds.
The windmill was a device that
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind Character Analysis The boy in the story “The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind”, William, had two very obvious traits shown throughout the story. William was both very smart and dedicated. He was obviously very smart considering he was able to produce electricity out of items collected from a junkyard. In addition to being smart however, William was dedicated to completing his windmill, and he had a true passion for science. He wanted to learn more and improve his knowledge in order to attempt to build a product that could generate electricity.
He read books about how other machines worked and started to put together projects of his own. When William completed the windmill project, people were very impressed and happy to have a place to have lights and a place to charge their phones. Without his intelligence, they might still be at a loss
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.
“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
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