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A metaphorical structure based on a government of sorts.

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A person who buys capital in a company in hopes of making money.

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1. Most tech companies are located there
2. It's a progressive-ish area due to the technology
3. They also build lots of computers there.

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"Africans bend what little they have to their will every day"

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Kind, Generous, Nice

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TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.
Ted represents innovation

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Here is a link to  website called hacktivate.

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Validation is when you feel accepted by people. William felt validated because people liked his windmill, and accepted it.

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Dr Mchazime is kind, generous and affluent.

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William uses art to combat HIV by teaching people about the disease in the form of a play.

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1. HIV is a sexually or blood transmitted disease.

2. HIV can be prevented with sexual education.

3. Another way to prevent HIV is to educate people about the disease, and to not use the same needle multiple times.

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Aids is a disease that affects the body's cellular immunity.

HIV is the thing that causes AIDS, and greatly reduces your body's ability to fight disease

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Odd Things Occurring And Why William Was Blamed

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Odd Things Occurring And Why William Was Blamed

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Two of the odd things that were occurring were the vampire rumors and the dog thing that was eating people. People were also getting their genitals stolen.

William was blamed because he had the only new thing in town, and it was a really easy scapegoat.

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Malaria Link

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One connection to moto is that both are attempting to be a replacement to firewood fuel.

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Getting electricity from organic matter.

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William tried to make biogas, but it didn't work and he just ended up ruining a pot.

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To groove through life is to have no real plan, and to get drunk as often as possible to forget about your life.

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1. He helped study electromagnetism

2. Discovered benzene

3. Discovered diamagnetism

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William now generates electricity and he can stay up late studying without a lamp, however he also is called a witch in chapter 13. The blacksmith treats him with respect as opposed to a madman from before he built the windmill.

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William both replaced the chain with a belt, and he added a circuit breaker so his house doesn't burn down.

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A circuit breaker is a thing that breaks a circuit after a thing happens.

1. Circuit breakers are often triggered by broken wires.

2. Circuit breakers are there so your house doesn't burn down if a wire breaks.

3. Circuit breakers entirely stop all current.

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A step up transformer is a machine that ups the voltage of an electrical current.

1. Step up transformers are written in ratio form.

2. Step up transformers have coils that up the voltage.

3. Step up transformers have an opposite, called step down transformers.

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Being thankful for something.

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1. There was a chain on it that would snap sometimes and cut William

2. A circuit breaker was added later so his house wouldn't catch fire if a wall broke or something.

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Both Einstein and Galileo were ostracized for their work.

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School fees in africa can be up to 4,000 Malawian Kwacha

If there weren't school fees, enrollment would rise 1.5-2%

Link

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Energy emitted from magnets.

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A device that measures electricity

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A tube with 2 electrodes

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The energy from something moving.

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How The Video And Williams Situation Relate

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How The Video And Williams Situation Relate

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In williams situation, the school systems aren´t treating their students well by expecting expensive fees while getting no funding. In the video the school systems also aren´t treating their students well, however for different reasons.

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The thing that was hopeful by the end of chapter 8

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The thing that was hopeful by the end of chapter 8

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By the end of chapter 8, people had harvested their food and were no longer in a famine.

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Epidemic: A widespread occurrence of a disease
Cholera: A disease that infects the small intestine

Facts:
Cholera is often spread through infected water
Cholera can also be spread by flies
Cholera is very serious if you get dehydrated
Cholera is very uncommon in countries with water sanitation
Cholera is often times cured by not moving very much and drinking water while waiting.

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On page 141 there's a simile that says "The very word was like bolt of current through his body"

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I think it was probably the right decision to kill the dog, although it was terribly sad, his dog would've died anyway.

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"But my stomach had taken over my entire body during the night, filled every limb and crevice, all the way up to my head like a great big balloon."

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Is Society Obligated to Take Care of the Weak and Sick?

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Is Society Obligated to Take Care of the Weak and Sick?

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Personally, I'd say we are. Every single person is human, and we all live on the same rock hurtling through space around the sun in orbit, and we can't really progress unless all of us like it. If we don't help the poor, they'll have a worse experience, then they'll die and it'll be too late to help them. And really, we're all human, we should probably be nice to each other before we die.

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Malaria is a sickness caused by a parasite.

Malaria was first discovered in 1880.

The name of the disease comes from a word meaning bad air.

There is an estimated 584,000 deaths yearly

The world health organization hopes to eliminate 90 percent of cases of malaria by 2030.

The mosquitoes that spread malaria are most common between dusk and dawn.

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You can lose weight, get a distended stomach, or die.

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How an organism works.

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There are many famine relief organizations in africa, like UNICEF, AAH, and the USCC. Tese organizations aim to help the people of africa have food during famines.

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Read about that here.

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A few marriage customs in malawi are that once you get married, you can't live at your parents home again. In a normal marriage in malawi, one person will go to the house of the others parents, then propose.

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1. 800,000 people died.
2. This was after they gained independence.
3. The radio stations were telling people to kill each other at one point.

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When you kill a large group of people

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Examples of Corrupt Politics in Chapter 5

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Examples of Corrupt Politics in Chapter 5

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1. President banda not giving farming equipment to everyone who needed it.
2. President Muluzi selling the surplus grain for a profit.
3.The six thugs that beat up the chief for wanting food.

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A deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood.

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1. Deforestation
2. Heavy rains ruining crops
3. Farmers not getting helped by government.
4. The price of maize increasing
5. The lack of planted seeds

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Deforestation keeps the poor poor by making sure poor people have to spend time biking really far away to get a handful of firewood, and making firewood uncommon

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Here's that thing

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Deforestation is when you cut down forests for the wood, leaves, or for something else the tree may provide. Deforestation can lead to areas that were once forests becoming deserts.

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Most electronics use direct current.

Direct current is used most often in series circuits.

Direct current supplies a constant source of electricity, and does not fluctuate.

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Alternating current reverses its polarity really fast repetitively.

Alternating current isn´t common in many things, but works with lightbulbs.

The box in the middle of the cord that plugs into computers converts AC to DC.

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Alternating current is when current flows in both directions and alternates.

Direct current is when current continues to flow in one direction while on.

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1. Bicycle dynamos use a small generator to transfer types of energy.

2. Bicycle dynamos are attached to the front wheel of bicycles.

3. Bicycle dynamos are common in almost every part of the world but the united states of america and places that don't use bicycles either because it's too cold, or because the terrain is too rough.

4. They can be used to charge phones, or power almost any other electronic component.

5. They are currently cheap if you buy one in  the UK, but really expensive in the USA.

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A bicycle dynamo takes the mechanical energy from the tire of a bike and transfers it into electrical energy.

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1. They're really easy to raise
2. They're an efficient way to transfer chemical energy into slightly less chemical energy.
3. Grasshoppers are eaten in other parts of the world already, we just don't do it in america for some reason.
4. They're a good source of unsaturated fats.
5. They're a good source of nutrients.

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"One night before bed, I saw my father there alone, staring at the sacks as if he'd just asked them a question. Whatever they told him, I'd find out soon enough" is an example of personification on page 78.

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There's a simile on page 77. It says "The stalks were wilted and hunched toward the ground like an old woman sweeping the dirt."

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Here's a link to a timeline

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Sustainable: Can continue for a long time if not forever

Ethical: Conforms to the common view of morality held by most humans.

Feasible: Possible and reasonable to do.

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Here's an article on that.

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Here's a link to a blog post about the music in malawi.

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When william tried magic, he found some kid who was willing to give him a potion. The kid cut williams knuckles, and put the potion inside. Later, william tried to fight a kid, and lost. He learned not to trust people selling you your wildest dreams, because they could easily lie to you to capitalize on your dreams, and then not deliver.

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Mangolomera is a magical potion you put in your blood through your knuckles with a magic blade. It makes you really strong, and is stopped by potato leaves.

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Here's an article on maize farming in Malawi.

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A cult of personality is when there is extreme public devotion for a public figure. This applied to President Banda, because he made it mandatory to admire him. This is shown by the law about having his picture in all shops.

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President Banda was the life president of Malawi. President Banda made it mandatory to deify him, with laws about having his picture in shops. He also outlawed kissing in public. One last thing he had was a group called the Young Pioneers, who would kidnap people who disagreed with the president politically.

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The Yao are a group of people that invaded the chewa people and sold them as slaves for a bit, but then the scottish missionary David Livingstone created peace by ending slavery, opening malawi to trading, build churches, and built schools.

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This is a map of Malawi.

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Black rhinos are a species of rhino, they are endangered currently. Often rhinos are hunted for medicinal use or ivory, although there is no evidence that rhino horns do anything as medicine.

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Magic is the belief that supernatural forces can have influences on the world, and can control or change people, animals, and objects. Magic is often portrayed as being done by witches.

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The Gule Wamkulu are a group of dancers that sometimes use stilts, and are often found wearing animal or human shaped masks. They only answer for the chief, and generally scare people.

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Some characteristics of a memoir are that they are:

1. In first person
2. Reveal the main characters thoughts and feelings
3. The memoir writer is the main character
4. Is subjective
5. The reader learns something about life
6. Is a true story
7. Is about a short part of the authors life
8. Author learned a lesson from the section of his life the story is about.
9. Dialogue is spoken roughly the way it was said in real life.

Sources: Source One -Source Two

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Prologue: The introduction.
Memoir: A short story about a part of someone's life.
Theme: The subject of something.
Universal Theme: Themes that appear in lots of things.
Figurative Language: A collection of words that do not mean exactly what they state.
Epilogue: A section or speech after a book that is designed to explain questions and wrap up the book.
Allusion: A reference to a thing.

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Use this link to find more info on windmills.

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This is an image of a schematic of a windmill. (This is a schematic of a grain windmill, a type of windmill that transfers the directional mechanical energy of the wind, to rotary mechanical energy. The windmill that William built transfers mechanical to electrical energy.)

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This person built a windmill. William Kamkwamba also wrote "The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind."

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This is a map detailing what africa looks like

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The chapter naming has been moved to this page.