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THE BEGINNING OF A NEW LIFE
"'Your like a Silicon Valley startup, and I'm going to be your board of directors."
William meets Tom who will guide him to "what's next".

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Silicon comes from the resource invested by investors and manufactured  silicon chips. Silicon valley is also 1 third of the venture capital investment. Located in the southern area of the San Fransisco By area.

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"Africans bend what little they have to their every day. Using creativity, they overcome Africa's challenges. Where the world sees trash, Africa recycles. Where the world sees junk, Africa sees rebirth.

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Tom is the future of William. Tom has very distinct characteristics that include investive, caring, and outgoing.

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RECOGNITION
"It took having these reporters come to my house to make our town finally accept my windmill."(Page 255)
William gets recognition from his amazing achievement.

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Technology, engineering and Design, or TED, is a group that brings people togeather to give solving world problems a positive outlook.

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Come and See why Windsor Chico Care Center has become the choice for skilled nursing and rehab services in the area. Our team of professionals understand the importance of creating a warm, comfortable environment for all residents. Let us show you how we help people recover from surgery, injury and serious illness.

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Validation is when someone gets what they deserve for achieving something spectacular or just accomplishing something noticeable.

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Dr. Mchazime is a self made, independant, and influentiall person.

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HIV ACTIVISM
"In science we invent and create, I said. 'We make new things that can benefit our situation. If we can all invent something and put it to work, we can change Malawi." (Page 249)
William is asked to give information about AIDS to stop the uniformity.

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Human immunodeficiency virus(HIV) attacks the immune system so that humans cannot fight disease and sickness.
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an advanced form of HIV.
HIV in Africa is very serious and a major problem.
1)between 1999 and 200, more people died of HIV than all the wars on the continent.
2)33.4 million people have HIV as of 2008
3)There were 2,000,000 deaths from AIDS in 2008

William uses his creativity and art to counterrac the ignorance. He used a play to entertain whilst informing.

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On page 240 there are many things happening in Wimbe. One of these things was that children of Satan were stealing peoples heads and using them for soccer. Another thing that happened was that there was another famine strike. People started getting very nervous that they were going to die so they out the blme  on william to make themselves feel better.

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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two former students from Burkina Faso have designed a mosquito-repellent soap, which they hope could be a simple and affordable solution in the fight to end malaria, but more funds are needed to test the idea, according to the startup behind it.

Moctar Dembélé and Gérard Niyondiko, the brains behind Faso Soap, were awarded a $25,000 prize for their invention in 2013 when they became the first African winners of the Global Social Venture Competition at the University of California Berkeley.

Yet Faso Soap must be tested to ensure it is safe for human use and effective at preventing malaria before it can be mass produced by soap manufacturers in Africa, said Franck Langevin, campaigns director for the Ouagadougou-based startup.

The soap, created from natural oils and plants, could prove successful in preventing malaria as it would be cheap and rely on existing habits of African households, Langevin said.

"People in Africa are very reluctant to change their habits, but soap is present in most homes, and is used for bathing, cleaning the house and washing clothes," he said.

The soap is designed to repel mosquitoes up to six hours after being applied, and once soapy water is thrown away on the street, hinder the insects from breeding in stagnant water.

"It is a simple and affordable weapon in the fight against malaria," Langevin told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Last month, Faso Soap launched a crowd funding appeal for $113,000 to finalize the development of the soap with the aim of distributing it in six African countries hardest-hit by malaria by 2018, working with soap manufacturers and aid agencies.

Last year, there were 214 million cases of malaria worldwide with the mosquito-borne disease killing 438,000 people, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

Jo Lines, reader of malaria control and vector biology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, praised the idea behind the soap, but said it would be dangerous to rely on an untested product to protect against malaria.

As a social startup, Langevin said Faso Soap has struggled to attract funding from donors, including the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations children's agency (UNICEF), prompting the inventors to turn to crowd funding.

World leaders committed to ending malaria by 2030 when they adopted the Sustainable Development Goals last year.

Europe last month became the first region to be declared malaria-free after reporting no indigenous cases in 2015, and a former WHO official said the world can eliminate the disease soon, but only with more investment to end and keep it at bay.

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Mosquito-repellent soap invention seeks to wash away Africa malaria threat

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Two former students from Burkina Faso have designed a mosquito-repellent soap, which they hope could be a simple and affordable solution in the fight to end malaria, but more funds are needed to test the idea, according to the startup behind it.

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William creates the windmill and starts to come back to what he was going to do after it was built. One of his dreams was to create a water pump. On page 227 it begins with his plan process, as you read onto further pages you see that that water pump just could not happen.

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We tend t look at the term "grooving through life", as positive. However on page 224 William talks about it as negative. People who are grooving through life are just making money to spend it directly on food to survive.

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Williams life in chapter twelve is not significantly different, he can stay up later and have electricity but not much has changed. He has also gained more respect, Mister Godsten for example now respects him

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One major modification that was made was the circuit breaker. Another was light switches.

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Stops the flow of electricity when the current gets too strong.

1)Used to protect housing from fires.
2)Used to control different lighting aspects of the house.
3)Used to keep one system from shutting the entire system down.

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A step up transformer is designed to increase voltage.
1)Have 2 coils
2)Wrapped around a core
3)AC flows back and fourth
MICHAEL FARADAY
1)Did a lot of research on magnetic field around a conductor.
2)Had little formal education.
3)Known for his law of induction.

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TOUCHING THE WALL
"Whenever I push the flip-flop button, the spoke and iron connected the terminals, completing the circuit. Finally, I could touch the wall and get lights!"
William makes improvements to his design.

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ELECTRIC WIND
"I held the bulb before me, waiting for my miracle. It flickered once. Just a flash at first, then a surge of bright, magnificent light."
After countless days of being doubted and mocked, William finishes the windmill and proves he wasn't crazy

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REJECTION
"Even day when I tried sneaking past, someone would spot me through the open window and yell, 'There goes the madman off to smoke is chamba!'"
William is granted freedom from his dad to build the windmill but faces troubles as he is doubted by the village

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One part of the windmill are the blades, or melted PVC pipe. These blades play an important role and that is catching the wind. Another detail about the windmill is the motor, which generates electricity.

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William showed many signs of perseverance but two that really peaked my intrest were his signs of resiliancy and perseverence when he was creating the windmill.
On page 189 it says "I wanted to go ahead and connect them to the tractor fan rotor, but I had no nuts and bolts. So I spent two weeks in the scrapyard searching every piece of metal."
Also, on page 191 it shows a similar example when it says "I spent the next several weeks back in the scrapyard, turning over the rusted chassis of cars..."

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Thomas Edison was kicked out of school for being too dumb and asking too many questions. Albert Einstein was rejected for a theory that could be correct.

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THE LIBRARY
"I saw it was an American textbook called Using Energy, and this book has since changed my life."
William finds out about the library and starts to discover how electricity works.

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Schools have never changed and this is huge because there are systems and minds trying to make school into equality for people but in reality nobody is equal. Everybody has different needs and needs that need to be attended to in different ways. Albert Einstein said that if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree it will live it's whole life thinking it's stupid. But fish cannot climb trees so why would you judge it on that. So if everybody has different needs why would you try to teach them all the same exact way. This video shows school systems that they are abusing the future of this world as America's students will make a huge difference in the future and can make an even bigger one if taught to their own strengths.

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CHOLERA: An infectious fatal disease of the small intestine that causes vomiting and diarrhea.
1)Kills within hours if left untreated.
2)Very painful.
3)Leaves people without energy.
4)Highly contagious, especially in poorly sanitized areas.
5)Popular in

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SIMILE:
"I was flattened like a tube."
METAPHOR:
"Starving was a cruel kind of science." (Page 151)

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HARVEST
"I then peeled back the steaming husks and began to eat. The kernels were so meaty and warm and filled with the essence of God."
The few Malawians that survived have hope due to maize being ready.

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EFFECTS OF FAMINE
"Without saying hello, he simply sat down behind us. Then, to my horror, he reached his dirty hands into our blob of nsima and ripped off a giant piece."
People have given up hope and now will do things only animals do.

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Is society obliged to take care of the weak?

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Is society obliged to take care of the weak?

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Society is defiantly not obliged to take care of the sick but in human nature we tend to do this because we have empathy for people. However, when people need to care for themselves just to live they would have to put off caring for other sick people, unless of course it is your family. In very desperate situations and seconds away from death people may then leave their family to fend for themselves.

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a fever caused by a protozoan parasite that attacks red blood cells.
1)Spread by mosquitoes
2)Exists in 103 countries
3)90 percent of Malaria deaths happen in sub-Saharan Africa.
4)Pregnant women are very vulnerable to malaria.
5)Not contagious

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DEPLEATING MORALS
"I saw a woman fall to the ground and vanish."
The people in Malawi have lost all moral and will murder without noticing for food.

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Physiological: functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
>Starvation is leading to people losing their moral because people need to live before they can be reasonable. Also,  being hungry forces you to lose reasoning.

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JUSTGIVING
People have sent seed for cheap to countries and dug wells for them.

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Fundraise or donate to Famine Relief for Orphans in Malawi with JustGiving, the worlds leading online fundraising platform, helping charities to make more with GiftAid

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arvest should be the time for celebrations, weddings and full bellies in southern Malawi. But Christopher Witimani, Lilian Matafle and their seven children and four grandchildren had nothing to celebrate last week as they picked their meagre maize crop.

Last year's drought, followed by erratic rains, hit the village of Nkhotakota hard. But this year the rains never came and, for a second year running, the family grain store is empty. If they manage their savings carefully and eat just one small meal a day, they may just have enough food for two more months.

By August, said Irish charity Concern Worldwide, they and tens of thousands of other small farmers in southern Malawi will have completely run out of food, with no prospect of another harvest for at least seven months. With nothing to sell and no chance of earning money, Witimani, Matafle and family will starve.

"I am worried the children will starve to death. I don't know what to do," said Matafle.

"We need food. We are in a desperate situation," her husband added.

Countries are just waking up to the most serious global food crisis of the last 25 years. Caused by the strongest El Niño weather event since 1982, droughts and heatwaves have ravaged much of India, Latin America and parts of south-east Asia. But the worst effects of this natural phenomenon, which begins with waters warming in the equatorial Pacific, are to be found in southern Africa. A second consecutive year without rain now threatens catastrophe for some of the poorest people in the world.

The scale of the crisis unfolding in 10 or more southern African countries has shocked the United Nations. Lulled into thinking that Ethiopia in 1985 was the last of the large-scale famines affecting many millions, donor countries have been slow to pledge funds or support. More than $650m and 7.9m tonnes of food are needed immediately, says the UN. By Christmas, the situation will have become severe.

Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Madagascar, Angola and Swaziland have already declared national emergencies or disasters, as have seven of South Africa's nine provinces. Other countries, including Botswana and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have also been badly hit. President Robert Mugabe has appealed for $1.5bn to buy food for Zimbabwe and Malawi is expected to declare that more than 8 million people, or half the country, will need food aid by November.

Serena Gadinala, from the in Neno district of Malawi, has tried different planting techniques but nothing worked and her crops continue to wilt. Photograph: Tamara van Vliet/OCHA

More than 31 million people in the region are said by the UN to need food now, but this number is expected to rise to at least 49 million across almost all of southern Africa by Christmas. With 12 million more hungry people in Ethiopia, 7 million in Yemen, 6 million in Southern Sudan and more in the Central African Republic and Chad, a continent-scale food crisis is unfolding.

"Food security across southern Africa will start deteriorating by July, reaching its peak between December 2016 and April 2017," says the UN's office for humanitarian affairs. The regional cereal deficit already stands at 7.9m tonnes and continues to put upward pressure on market prices, which are already showing unprecedented increases, diminishing purchasing power and thereby reducing food access. As food insecurity tightens and water scarcity increases due to the drought, there are early signs of acute malnutrition in Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabawe.

For Coco Ushiyama, head of the UN's World Food Programme in Lilongwe, Malawi's capital, just working out how to import a million tonnes of food, needed to support between five million and eight million people in Malawi over the next 12 months, is proving nightmarishly difficult. With no guarantees of money from donors, she cannot buy the food on the open market, or book ships and transport.

"We are very concerned. Last year, like many other countries in the region, Malawi had a double disaster with erratic rains and then floods which led into droughts," said Ushiyama. "Last year, 2.8 million people were affected. Then we had a deficit of 220,000 tonnes of food. This year, we are anticipating it will be four times as bad. The maize price is already exceptionally high.

"We are monitoring 50 markets throughout the country and already they are seeing abnormally high prices. We have very worryingly high admission rates for childhood malnutrition in health clinics. In some areas it is very serious already and it is likely to get much more serious. It will be a regional issue," she said.

The government has declared a disaster and will publish a new assessment of its needs in the next few weeks. The vice-president, Saulos Chilima, has said that about 1.3m tonnes of maize will be needed.

Politicians may talk of going on to the world market to buy a million tonnes of maize, but Ushiyama is unsure where it will come from. There is usually enough food in the region, but South Africa, which usually exports a million tonnes of food a year, will need to import 3.5m tonnes this year. Only Zambia may have enough food to export and it has imposed restrictions, she said.

"South Africa is in trouble. Nearby Zambia has had a better harvest than most countries but it has put export restrictions on its food. If we import it [from outside Africa], the food will take four to six months [to arrive]. We have learned from experience that the rains start in November so the roads will be terrible when the food is most needed and some lorry drivers will refuse to come. By November, we will need to have pre-positioned food in key areas. But to get it there by then means ordering the food right now," she said.

People are divide pulses among themselves at a United Nations World Food Programme food distribution centre in Chikwawa district, Malawi. Photograph: Tamara van Vliet/OCHA

Finding the cash to feed possibly 50 million people for eight or more months is the biggest problem of all, says the UN, because Africa's slow-burn crisis must compete with Middle East wars, refugees and natural disasters for attention. According to the UN, which is holding an unprecedented humanitarian summit this week in Istanbul, 125 million people worldwide need long-term assistance and a further 60 million have been forced from their homes by war, violence and disaster.

More than $1.5bn has been requested by southern African governments, says Ocha, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, but less than a quarter of this has been pledged. Officially, the deficit is $677 million (87%) but this will grow when countries complete their assessments of the harvests in the next few weeks.

"The window for responding in a meaningful manner is closing rapidly," said Shadrack Omol, senior adviser to the UN children's fund, Unicef. "The concern is that slow-onset emergencies, like the one we are dealing with in southern Africa, do not get enough attention because they creep up on us."

John Makina, Oxfam country director in Malawi, said: "The donors just do not have the money; there is donor fatigue. Malawi has been hit by drought, then floods, then drought. The donors are getting tired of it. In 2015, Malawi alone needed $170m. In 2016-17, it will be far more.

"The full impact will be felt from October to March 2017. It's looking really bad. The most affected will be the poorest and jobless. They will end up selling what little they possess. The price of maize flour has already gone to 9,000 kwachas (£8.70) for 50kg. It will double again for sure," he said.

International development minister Nick Hurd, who has visited Mozambique, wants Britain to lead the humanitarian effort. But money cannot be given directly to the country following a corruption scandal, and the government must work through a consortium of NGOs, providing food vouchers, medical aid and food-for-work schemes.

"We cannot and will not stand idly by while millions suffer. Britain is playing a leading role in helping countries across Africa to cope with the impact of El Niño. Support for people affected by El Niño is important to Africa and also firmly in Britain's national interest," says Hurd.

In villages across southern Africa, people are fearful, unsure how they will survive. In Mozambique, where Britain is contributing £11.8m over three years, some food aid has arrived in the village of Mblalava.

A farmer tries to grow crops with the help of a United Nations supported irrigation scheme in the Neno district of Malawi. Photograph: Tamara van Vliet/OCHA

The women are ecstatic: "It's been two and a half years since we had good rain," said Rosita Chauque, a mother of three. "When the drought started we used to be able to find vegetables in the bush, but even these have gone now. We used to make and sell charcoal, but there are so many other people doing that now it's not possible. We have thought of leaving, but where to? We have no crops in the fields, no food for the cattle and nothing for ourselves. There is no water, no grass. People are selling their animals. They have no other resources. There is a lot of suffering."

"The situation is critical," said Abdoulaye Balde, the World Food Programme country director in Mozambique's capital, Maputo. "We are at the point of no return."

Droughts and "hungry seasons" are common throughout southern Africa, but the breadth of this year's crisis is very unusual, says Caoimhe de Barra, Malawi country director of Concern Worldwide. Her frontline workers see rural people already employing traditional coping strategies, including eating wild foods, taking children out of school, selling their animals and assets.

"Early action is key. If we can start supporting people now, we can save lives and prevent an even worse situation later this year. People are not currently dying of hunger but the overall health of the population will be severely affected by hunger-related illnesses. Malnutrition will blight the life chances of countless more Malawian children," she said.

The secretary general of the International Red Cross, Elhadj As Sy, who visited Malawi and Zimbabwe last week, said: "Much more needs to be done to support communities to survive and strive over the coming months. We met families who have received no external support and who are simply desperate. We need to urgently scale up our interventions to prevent this situation from becoming a catastrophe," he said.

Relief from Africa's long drought may finally be coming, says the World Meteorological Organisation, which is monitoring the temperature of waters in the Pacific. These are said to be cooling rapidly and are expected to be "neutral" by mid-June. That, says the UN, signals the coming end of the El Niño, the droughts and the worldwide heatwaves.

The effects, however, will not be felt in southern Africa until April 2017 when the next main harvest should be in. But, says the WMO, there may be a sting in the tale. There is a 50:50 chance that the continent will be hit from September by El Niño's climatic "twin", known as La Niña, which develops as the Pacific Ocean equatorial waters cool after an El Niño.

Instead of droughts, La Niña usually brings heavier monsoon rains in south-east Asia and much cooler and wetter conditions in southern Africa.

"We pray hard for rain and then we must pray harder that it stops. Is there no end of extreme weather?" said Malawian villager Richard Kapenda.

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A second year without rain threatens to bring catastrophe for some of the poorest people in the world. Donor countries, in the grip of wars and refugee crises, have been slow to pledge funds. But by the time they do, it could be too late

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>The girl asks the guy to come meet her family.
>The guy will then visit for many weekends in a row before he proposes a marriage .
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>Bride's uncle names of the dowry and also is given a "mouth fee" for speaking for the family.
>Grooms family pays for the ceremony.

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RAWANDAN GENOCIDE:
1) mass murder of the Tutsi
2)800,000 killed
3)20% of population

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FAMINE
"Papa why are you selling our goats, I like these goats' 'A week ago the price was 500, now it's 400. I'm sorry, but we can't wait for it to go any lower." (Page 90)
People are beginging to lose hope for their country and start looking for other food options

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2)Sold all of the grain reserve
3)Chief Wimbe attacked

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>Eating raw fruit because they are out of food.
>People standing in the market looking for jobs.
>Family fortune livestock prices going down.
>Rationing the last bits of food they have

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The cutting blights a pastoral, sometimes breathtaking landscape. It dries up streams, pollutes the air, lowers the water table, erodes the soil and silts rivers so badly that, officials here say, hydroelectric plants are blacked out by the gunk.

It is hard to think of many other things that Mr. Juma and his fellow loggers could do that would damage the nation more.

The problem is that it is hard to think of many other ways that Mr. Juma and his fellow loggers could make a living, period.

"The problem is that we have nothing else to do," said Mr. Juma, a wiry 33-year-old with a neon green shirt tied around his bare waist, standing over the remains of the chopped-up masuku. "We have no money to raise our families. We have nowhere to run, nothing else to do. So we have to cut the trees to feed our families."

In few places do the dictates of modern environmentalism butt so painfully against economic reality as they do here in Malawi.

Two-thirds of the nation's 12 million people earn less than a dollar a day, according to the United Nations Human Development report. Nine-tenths of those two-thirds live in rural areas where both jobs and the odds of escaping poverty are nonexistent.

For hundreds of thousands of those rural dwellers, sales of firewood and charcoal provide virtually their only income.

Wood and charcoal are the preferred cooking and heating fuels in Malawi, even in the poorer parts of cities, and the demand is huge: the World Bank estimated in 2001 that charcoal consumption alone was twice what the nation's woodlands could sustain without further deforestation. Indeed, loggers illegally clear 100 square miles of forest each year just to meet the demand for charcoal, the government says.

Yet the income -- less than $8 million a year nationwide, by official estimates -- is pitifully meager, as Mr. Juma's band of loggers can testify.

A single masuku tree, felled and cut into logs and branches, brings about 2,000 kwacha, or about $15 at current exchange rates, when all has been sold. A bundle of three or four branches sold by the roadside brings about 15 cents; a thick five-foot section of trunk, up to $1.50.

Mr. Juma and his fellow loggers say they cut about 15 trees a year, the most the group can sell in a region where dozens of wood vendors line the main street of every town. That provides an income, on average, of about $20 a month.

That $20 must support the 10 men, their 8 wives and 16 children -- 34 people in all. Whatever else they have comes from casual labor as gardeners, for about 40 cents a day, or from the vegetable plots outside their one-room huts, just off the main road linking Blantyre and Lilongwe, Malawi's two main cities.

"Sometimes we just do without food because the money doesn't last a month," said Kabaitha Langwan, a gray-stubbled, 52-year-old logger clad in a red T-shirt bearing the words "surf extreme." "We lack money even for soap and bathing."

"It's a lot of hard work for very little money," said one forester, an expert who is working under a foreign government grant to reduce illegal logging. "Nobody does it by choice. But they have very few options."

In theory, at least, Malawi's impoverished millions could benefit by saving the woods instead of clearing them.

Some studies indicate that the income from forest beehives and their honey can exceed the profit from firewood sales. Practitioners of traditional medicine scrupulously tend their patches of wood to maintain supplies of forest mushrooms and exotic plants used in home remedies.

More than that, simple math shows that Malawians could cook their food far more cheaply using electricity -- if it were available -- than by buying and burning wood or charcoal.

But only 2 percent of Malawians are hooked to the electrical grid, and for the rest, merely the cost of plugging in -- buying a meter, and buying a stove with which to cook -- makes electricity a pipe dream. Only so many beehives can fit into a forest. And all the arguments about the long-term benefits of woodlands pale beside the relentless need to find the next day's meal.

And so along the main road, almost all the hills have been shaved of their leafy canopies of trees, leaving behind a rocky bristle of scrub and dirt. Plumes of smoke curl skyward from behind the peaks, the signatures of charcoal makers at work.

More than a fifth of Malawi's forests vanished between 1990 and 2000 alone, the World Bank says, and 23 species of trees are considered to be endangered.

In many places, the biggest patches of untouched woods are the ones that protect community graveyards.

Michael Pathungo, the assistant forestry officer in Malawi's southern region, said the nation's heavily populated southern half has now lost up to four-fifths of its tree cover.

"The rate of cutting is dwindling," he said, grasping for a shred of good news, "because there are no more forests."

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Malawi Is Burning, and Deforestation Erodes Economy

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Lovely and lissome, the masuku tree rises maybe 35 feet at maturity, its wood the hue of a rare steak, its branches dotted with sweet golfball-size fruits that ferment into a tasty wine.

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Trees prevent flooding from terrorizing the farmers. When trees are cut down, it floods and washes the soil away along with its minerals. Then, soil and washed away garbage floods into the Shire River clogging the turbine. This leads to the shutdown of the powerplant  to dredge the river. Finally, this causes power cuts, and all of this combined is very expensive.

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AC
>Created by Tesla
>Periodically shifts direction
>Used in most houses
DC
>Created by Thomas Edison
>Goes one direction
>Needs power source

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>Small Generator
>Permanent Magnet
>Magnet Surrounded by Wires
>Produces a Changing Magnetic Field
>Generates Electricity

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ENVIORNMENT FAILURE
"What will happen to us next year, Papa?" He let out a sigh. "I don't know. But at least we're not alone. It's happening to everyone." (Page 77)
The tradition of farming in Malawi is now in failure due to environmental factors.

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July-----> Clear land from previous harvest| August - November-----> Digging new dirt rows/ridges| December-----> Planting after first rain. After rain, plant fertilizer| March----->  Harvest| Repeat...

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5 NUTRITION FACTS
1)35% protein
2)4.9 Dietary fibers
3)Contains phosphorous
4)Contains potassium
5)Contains calcium

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Curiosity: The Good, the Bad, and the Useless (How to Be Positively Curious)

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We all get curious about one thing or another (unless we're in an apathetic emotional state). But sometimes our curiosity harms more than helps, or depresses more than encourages.

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THE FALL OF THE KAMKWAMBAS
"I don't want anybody saying I'm a thief," my father said. "If things go badly, I still did the right thing." (Page 53)
The Kamkwamba's got caught in a financial crisis after a new leader of the company and of their nation was initiated.

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THE POPE
"He woke up my mother, who lay sleeping beside him, and said, "My wife, today I'm turning to God. I've seen the signs, and now it's time to change." (page 36)
Williams father, Trywell, was a tough trader who turned his life to God and moved to a peaceful life.

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Mangolomera is a kind of magic in the eyes of the Chewa people. It makes anybody who has it infinite times stronger. William was very scrawny and was not very athletic so he met a boy his age that supposedly possessed this magic. When William picked a fight with a boy twice his size he realized that this magic was not legitimate. He learned the magic of trade and scamming which would give him an advantage to future criminals that could possibly cross his path.

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Malawians have a saying - 'chimanga ndi moyo' or 'maize is life'. For around 80% of Malawians, life revolves around growing enough maize to feed the family.

Maize seed is planted when the rains come. Two weeks later, after the first green shoots appear, the crop is weeded and fertilised. The plants grow to seven or eight feet before the cobs are ready to be picked.

An agricultural society

As a nation of growers, Malawians rely on fresh produce. Imported Western-style processed foods (such as cereal and cheese) are rarely found in the villages where the majority of Malawians live.

When you travel around, you see field upon field of maize. Most families grow maize wherever they can, in any spare patch of ground.

All members of the family, including the youngest children, help plant, tend, pick and process the crop. Droughts and floods, a common feature of the country's climate, can spell disaster for crops and a successful harvest is cause for great celebration and joy!

Some of the cobs are eaten fresh. But most are taken to the local mill for grinding into flour before it is cooked into a paste to create 'nsima', a thickly mashed, starchy meal that feeds the family in the weeks ahead.

Potatoes are sometimes used as part of the relish eaten with nsima. But they can also be found in town or city streets as a commercial food at a "chippie" stand. Here they are fried over a fire and sold in small bags to eat directly. Sound familiar?

Eating by hand

Using a tripod made of three supporting stones, women usually prepare the staple food of nsima.

This is a thick maize porridge which is moulded into patties.

It is served with ndiwo, a sauce or relish made with beans, meat or vegetables. The meal is eaten with the hands and families wash in a communal bowl before and after the meal.

Because most Malawians are farmers and need a lot of energy working in the fields, the carbohydrate element of any meal is the most important, with the relish only intended to add flavour. As well as the maize-based nsima, Malawians also eat rice, cassava and potatoes for their energy supply.

Fish on the move

Local delicacies

Local Malawians say 'you haven't eaten your fish until you've eaten its head!' They may also smile as they encourage you to try some of the more exotic local recipes based on insects, such as the patties mashed with lake flies which are caught in large quantities.

Around Lake Malawi, unsurprisingly the ndiwo relish is often based on fish.

Because Malawians are skilled in the craft of drying their catches, fish can be found throughout the country's markets. Locals particularly rely on a small fish similar to whitebait, which is called usipa and utaka. These can be seen drying on racks near many fishing villages.

Larger species of fish are also eaten, such as mpasa (lake salmon), batala (butter fish) and kampango (similar to catfish).

C hambo, a bream-like white fish, is probably the most popular and may be known to some Western diners as 'tilapia'.

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Malawians have a saying - 'chimanga ndi moyo' or 'maize is life'. For around 80% of Malawians, life revolves around growing enough maize to feed the family. Maize seed is planted when the rains come. Two weeks later, after the first green shoots appear, the crop is weeded and fertilised.

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Malawi music: Robert Fumulani? (previously misidentified as Allan Namoko)

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GUMBALLS AND MAGIC
"Before I Discovered The miracles of science, magic ruled the world."    (Page 3)
William looks up to his father who denies magic when the "rest of the world" is afraid of it.

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Gule Wamkulu: A ritual dance practiced among the Chewa people.
Magic/Juju: A force that the Chewa people believed was real.
Black Rhino: A predator of the African people. Used in many African stories.
Yao people: African tradespeople that had slavery.
President Banda: Powerful leader who required attention. Used propaganda to persuade people that he was great. also called the 'cult of personality.'

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PROLOGE: A introductory part of a novel.
MEMOIR: An account of one's personal life and experiences.
THEME: A subject of discussion.
Universal Theme: a theme in a lot of story lines.
CULT OF PERSONALITIES: Use of propaganda and brainwash to make people believe in a heroic character.
SUSTAINABLE: to maintain or keep going.
ETHICAL: What is right based on your morals.
FEASABLE: Possible or achievable.
SIMILE ON PAGE 77: By February, the stalks were wilted and hunched toward the ground like an old woman sweeping the dirt."
PERSONIFICATION ON PAGE 78: "Whatever they told him."
ANEMIA: Lack of vitality.
DEFORESTATION: The deconstruction of trees
DIRECT CURRENT: A current flowing in one direction.
ALTERNATING CURRENT: A current that moves back and fourth.
EPIDEMIC: Widespread disease in an area
KINETIC ENERGY: The energy of a body or system.
DIODE: A two-element electron tube or semiconductor.
ELECTROSCOPE: A device that detects the presence and determines the sign of electric charges.
ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY: Energy that is reflected or emitted from objects in the form of electric and magnetic waves.
GRATITUDE: Feeling of compassion for somebody.
BIOGAS: Fuel generated from natural products such as animal waste.
VENTURE CAPITALIST:Investment  into a project that could possibly fail. very risky.
ALLUSION: An indirect passing reference.
EPILOGUE: A conclusion at the end of a book or play.
INFRASTRUCTURE:Basic  physical structures and facilities needed for a soceity.

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William Kamkwamba: How I built a windmill

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When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book.