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"We harvested all day with a satisfied mind, and at night we slept like a lion with a belly full of food. Harvest are a time to remember your sacrifice."
Even though William had to dropped out of school for the second time, William and his family was able to grow a successful harvest and sleep with a full stomach.

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the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.

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1) Williams family did not have the money to pay the school fees so he tried going to school for free
2) William kept on asking his father if he can use his bike for Williams windmill

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inventors that faced humiliation from society

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inventors that faced humiliation from society

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1) Charles Darwin postpone to release his studies because he was afraid of people humiliating him
2) Lonnie G. Johnson faced segregation during his time.

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https://www.ase.org.za/tuition-fees/
1) Grade 8 and 9 both cost about R2,125
2) The uniform cost the most for grade 8,9 and 10

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1. Determined
2. Hard working
3.   Caring

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"If you want to make it, all you have to do is try." pg.281
This chapter is about how people are helping him and getting recognition for his windmill and tells how you can do anything if you try.

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the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.

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an investor who either provides capital to startup ventures or supports small companies that wish to expand but do not have access to equities markets.

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1. Home of many start up  and global technology companies.
2. Apple, Facebook and Google are among the most prominent.
3. It’s also the site of technology-focused institutions centered around Palo Alto's Stanford University.

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"Africans bend what little they have to their will every day. Using creativity, they overcome Africa's challenges. Where the world sees trash, Africa recycles. Where the world sees junk, Africa sees rebirth." pg.267

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1. Caring
2.Humble
3. Brave

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“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.”

William attempts to work and several other projects that do not work while his community is experiencing odd things and are blaming his windmill.

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William makes a play to help convince people in his village to go and get tested for HIV/aids and says to not look at someone and assume they have aids or HIV they should get tested first.

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Aids- a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy

HIV-  interferes with your body's ability to fight the organisms that cause disease.

1. Sub-Saharan Africa estimated 24 million of  people living with HIV
2. 1.1 million aids-related  death
3.  An estimated 1.5 million new HIV infections

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There was a wave of superstition and fear in Wimbe. Some instances were that people reported having their private parts remove. Another one is where witches were using children for magic and one night the attack an old man when he was sleeping and magically took his head for soccer. William was blamed because he just built this new thing in their village and they need something to blame to deal with the fear.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-africa-malaria-idUSKCN0Y31QD

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Turning animal waste into liquid fuel which could be used for cooking.

This is connected to moto because They made a product that eliminates women and children going and collect firewood, they then use moto bricks as fuel.

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William attempts to use goats poop as bio fuel but ended up ruining his mothers clay plot

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In the book, grooving through life means you do nothing with your life, you drink all your money you have earned that day at the bar.

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1. Works to kill power when the circuit becomes overloaded
2. Without it homes become a potential fire hazard
3. Uses fuses that contained tiny metal filaments that melts when the overloas

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1.Invented the first transformer in 1831
2 .born on 22 September 1791
3. died on 25 August 1867

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1. Has two coils- Primary and secondary
2.Alternating current flows back and forth and is constantly changing
3.Causes mutual induction which means voltage from one coil jumps to another

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William has finally finished his windmill and prove his village wrong.
"Since there's no word in Chichewa for windmill, I used the phrase magesti a mphepo. Electric wind I answered."

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In Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania combined, the average cost per year is about $650

The cost of attending a university in Sub Saharan Africa varies by school and program, but averages about $3,000 a year.

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"I'm not where I got my confidence, but I knew this was a great plan. However, I had none of the materials I needed or money to buy them. So to pull this off I had to do what I did with my radio experiment-I had to go and find them on my own."
William has been going to the library to catch up on some school, but he finds a book about windmills and decides to make his own.

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Kinetic energy- energy that a body possesses by virtue of being in motion.

Diode-a semiconductor device with two terminals, typically allowing the flow of current in one direction only.

Electroscope- an instrument for detecting and measuring electricity, especially as an indication of the ionization of air by radioactivity.

Electromagnetic energy-form of energy that can be reflected or emitted from objects through electrical or magnetic waves traveling through space.

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The video of suing the school and William are connected because William is using his gift, his talent to build a windmill for his family. The video wants to fight for the help students find their gift/talent for their future and not just in rows teaching the same way.

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""I don't think this dowe is ready," said my father, snatching one quickly. "Let me have a taste." He ripped off the silk and bit into the dowe, savoring it as I had. Within seconds, the blood of life seemed to rush back to his face. He knew we would live."

After a long time of starvation and sadness, william and his family finally got food and was able to eat their maize.

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At the end of chapter 8, William and his family crops were mature and ready for harvest. They could not wait so they pick a whole bunch of maize and when to cook them for corn on the cob and they ate a whole bunch that night.

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Epidemic- a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
Cholera- an infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the small intestine, typically contracted from infected water supplies and causing severe vomiting and diarrhea.

cholera is extremely rare. It does not last long, resolves within days to weeks. It spreads through contaminated water and food.  Key symptoms are diarrhea and dehydration. May experience pain in the abdominal area.

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Kamkwamba’s decision to kill his dog. Reflection 

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Kamkwamba’s decision to kill his dog. Reflection 

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For me I understand the reason why to kill his dog. The dog is suffering from hunger and is dying. They do not have any food to give the dog so putting him out of his misery would end his pain. The only problem was that his way of killing his dog was not a human way of doing it.

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"The very word was like a bolt of current through his body."
William uses a simile here to describe what it looked like to him.

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"little did I know, 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 big balloon."

William is uses a simile to describe his hunger.

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"A man in the trading center was caught trying to sell his two young daughters. The buyer had informed the police. People were becoming desperate."

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Mob mentality affecting personal moral codes?

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Mob mentality affecting personal moral codes?

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In the article "

Mob Mentality: The Brain Suppresses Personal Moral Code When In Groups", they say that "A group of people will often engage in actions that are contrary to the private moral standards of each individual in that group, sweeping otherwise decent individuals into 'mobs' that commit looting, vandalism, even physical brutality."

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physiological- relating to the way in which a living organism or bodily part functions.

The physiological effects of starvation- In a study of 36 men, when their food intake was cut in half, they found out that it was harder to focus on their everyday activities because they were having incessant thoughts of food and eating.

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"The president scoffed at this absurd  idea, saying he'd grown up himself in the village where people often died of other things, such as tuberculosis, cholera, malaria, or diarrhea, but never from lack of food.
"Nobody has dies of hunger," he said"

People in Malawi are out of food and children are dropping out of school because they are either to hunger to walk or can not pay the fees.

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Is society obligated to take care of the weak/sick?

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Is society obligated to take care of the weak/sick?

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I feel that society is obligated to take care of the weak/sick because you would have to think of what if you were in this situation of being weak or sick. You would want someone to take care of you to till you got better. It is not different for someone else, they too want someone to help them in their time of need.

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https://www.wfp.org/countries/malawi
Past efforts- Using a contribution from USAID specifically for local maize purchase, WFP purchased 30 metric tons of maize directly from the Chigonthi Farmers Organization in mid-2016 which it then delivered to food-insecure households as part of its current relief response.

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Last year, tens of thousands of small farmers run out of food for no sign of another harvest next year.

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Courtship/Marriage Customs in Malawi (Africa)

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Courtship/Marriage Customs in Malawi (Africa)

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A date is set for both families to meet, to get to know each other and to agree on the bride price, or lobola. This price can be either in the form of cash or cattle. In most cases the amount set depends on the girl’s level of educational – the more educated she is, the higher the bride price. During this cultural ceremony, only close family members are allowed to attend. The boy may choose to pay the bride price straightaway or may pay in installments.

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an intermittent and remittent fever caused by a protozoan parasite that invades the red blood cells.
1. the word  malaria means "bad air"
2. Malaria is spread by parasites.
3. Malaria is most commonly found in Africa and parts of Southeast Asia.
4.   Malaria can pass from human to human.
5. When infected with malaria, symptoms can range from none to severe.

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"My father was right. We were heading for a disaster, but even he didn't know how bad it would get" pg 88

They had a big drought and people are running out of food and are beginning to starve.

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the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Rwanda- killed more than eight thousand.  Mostly tutsi were targeted. Begun by extreme Hutu nationalists in the capital of Kigali.

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1.  Williams village chief spoke out to the president about the famine going on and in returned, his thugs beat him up and he has gotten anemia

2.The government was pressured to sell some of their reserved maize to pay off debt but instead of some they sold all of it not keeping any for emergency

3. The president made empty promises. For example, he promise people shoes if he was elected and when he was he said "I never promised shoes".

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a condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness.

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1. Other people from different villages come to different villages for handouts

2. when William was buying salt, he heard the scarcity of food in other village

3.The government sold all the emergency maize

4.People started to sell gaga that is usually use for their chickens

5. People were cutting breakfast out of the day to extend their food supply

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Deforestation- is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses.
It keeps Malawians poor because if there is no trees, the floods destroy the soil and minerals and garbage gets put in the river and clogging the turbines which makes the company rise their prices to fix it.  Since they have no more crops to sell and the have to pay the electric company they are mostly poor.

http://www.rippleafrica.org/environment-projects-in-malawi-africa/deforestation-in-africa

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Alternating current-an electric current that reverses its direction many times a second at regular intervals, typically used in power supplies

In a alternating current, the electricity can go multiple ways. The outlets in our homes provide alternating current.  60 times every second the electrons in the wire change direction.

Direct current-an electric current flowing in one direction only.

In a direct current, the electricity will always flow in one direction. Batteries are the main source of DC.  Measured in amps

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1. Energy-generating hub built into the front wheel of a bicycle that typically powers lights
2.device able to convert mechanical rotation into electric current
3.A typical dynamo consists of one or more permanent magnets with a coil rotating inside their poles
4. The stationary part of the device is called the stator, while the rotating bit is known as the armature.
5.  When the coil is spun in the magnetic field produced by the permanent magnets, the magnetic flux starts to vary through the coil, creating an electric field which in turn drives the charge carriers through the wire, generating an electric current

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Smarter everyday- Turning gravity into light

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Smarter everyday- Turning gravity into light

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsc-pQIMxt8

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"I'd become very interested in how things worked, yet never thought of this as science"
This chapter is about how William is starting to realize that he is more interesting on how things work and the way that they farm in malawi.

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"One night before bed, I saw a lamp flickering inside and found my father there alone, staring at the sacks as if he'd just asked them a question"

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"By February, the stalks were wilted and hunched toward the ground like an old woman sweeping dirt"

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1. Spends much of august through november digging new dirt rows.
2. By the first week of december  through march it starts to rain normally and the first sign of rain is when they begin to plant.
3.After a few days the seedlings begin to push through the soil. If the rain is still good they add the first round of fertilizer
4. may through september, still benefiting from the harvest.

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Sustainable- able to be upheld or defended.
Ethical- relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these.
Feasible- possible to do easily or conveniently.

5 benefits of eating grasshoppers-
1. Are a good source of unsaturated fats that helps lower a risk of a heart disease
2. great source of protein
3. Rich in essential vitamins
4. Less likely to make you sick
5. There is an abundant of them

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http://www.howtolearn.com/2013/05/why-curiosity-is-the-most-important-skill-to-teach-your-child/

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"My family never had much money, and trapping birds was often our only way of getting meat, which we consider a luxury.".

Chapter 3 talks about how the life of farming are getting increasingly difficult and they only get food by hunting for it.

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Mangolomera is form of magic that delivered superhuman strength. In the book TBWHTW, William Kamkwamba asked for mangolomera but when he tried and use it did not work and therefore was cheated out of money with fake magic. So with this experience William was then left to turned to science and education instead of magic.

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http://www.umb.no/statisk/clts/papers/CLTS_WP4_2013.pdf

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http://www.voanews.com/MediaAssets2/projects/african_music_treasures_blog/robertfumulanimalangizoanu.mp3
Robert Fumulani information-
*He was born, in 1948, in the city of Zomba
*first started to draw the attention of Malawian audiences in the 1970s.

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Magic gone wrong
""Take a break brother," he'd say. Leave some for tomorrow. Reserve your strength, you'll need it." just a bit longer," my father would say, his body covered in mud from head to toe."
The father changes his life for the better and was cheated  in magic

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President Banda and the Cult of Personality

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President Banda and the Cult of Personality

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The definition of Cult of Personality applies because Banda was a dictator in Africa and traders in the market had to have his picture in there stores higher than all other pictures.

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*Mostly from Liwonde and the southern lakeshore
*Language is called chiyao
*The Yao came to Malawi from Mozambique to escape conflict with the Makua tribe.

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"But most of the time we had no money, so we spent out afternoons in hunger and dreams." page 21
This chapter talks about how William kamkwamba life and how magic played a big rule in their lives when he was a kid in his village.

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In the book , The boy Who harnessed the Wind, Wiliam Kawmkwamba tells a story about a black rhino. The rhino would go and sit in the puddle of water where people who lived near it would go and get water. The rhino stomped hundreds of people to death. Until one day it stomped on the chiefs daughter and she died. The chief wanted this rhino dead and one man named Mwase Chiphaudzu who had azungu's guns and was good with magic was asked to help kill the rhino. He agreed and he then waited in tall grass next to the pond for the rhino. Then when the rhino came by he shot it in the skull.

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Juju is like karma, if you do something good you get good juju if not its bad juju.
The people in William Kamkwamba village believed in not religion but magic.

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Gule Wamkulu: A secret gang of dancer, perfomred at the chief's request at funerals and initiation ceremonies.

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Prologue:an event or action that leads to another event or situation

Memoir:a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources.

Theme:the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

Universal theme:is an idea that applies to anyone regardless of cultural differences, or geographic location.

Figurative Language: using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive and impactful.

Allusion- an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference

Epilogue- a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened