The Boy Who Harnesseded The Wind

Whether you are a believer in the Bible, Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, or both. Inherit the Wind is a play that expands on the importance of being able to accept both in society. Bertram Cates was a teacher of Hillsboro, Tennessee, who was arrested for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to his biology class. Anything that is said against the creation of man and the Bible was considered a crime. The prosecutor of the case was Matthew Harrison Brady, a beloved politician and religion enthusiast. Mr. Brady had a variety of characteristics, positive and negative ones, which greatly influenced the outcome of the case. He can efficiently manipulate and influence the opinions of others, he was overconfident, and ignorant. Despite these inferior

In The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, the authors William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer use allusions to make the story more interesting. For example, one allusion that they mention is, “My father talked about the early days of MBC and hearing Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers from America and the wonderful sounds of Robert Fumulani” (68). Dolly Parton is a singer-songwriter, actress, author, businesswoman and humanitarian. Dolly Parton is best known for her work in country music (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton). Kenny Rogers is an American singer who has won many awards and has a lot of fans all over the world (http://www.kennyrogers.com/#bio). William’s father is recalling his memories from when he was younger, and the famous musicians

The role of the individual in a society is marked by the prevailing ideologies as well as political, economic, and social constructs. Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” opens with an idyllic city where all the restrictions are thrown away to enable people to live joyfully. The narrator discovers that the society does not obey the prescribed laws and regulations celebrating the festival of summer near a shimmering sea. Soon it becomes known that a poor little child becomes the source of happiness for citizens left without normal conditions for life in the basement. In the wider framework, the story demonstrates the confrontation between the poor and the rich where those in power execute the huge control over the weak.

In the poem “Wind in a Box”, Terrance Hayes explains the importance of inner freedom. Through his use of rhythm and incorporation of race and culture, Hayes illustrates morality in his writings.

The Way of the Wind by Amos Oz, is about a man named Shimshon Sheinbaum, and his view of his son, Gideon. Shimshon was a military, political, and social hero amongst his kibbutz. He is a founding father of the Hebrew Labor Movement. People in his kibbutz looked for him for guidance, because this man was in top physical and mental shape devoting all of his life to learning as much as necessary and the remainder to stay in peak shape. As one can imagine, he would expect the same of his son, and he does but his son isn't the same man as his father. His father didn't have someone else make a decision like that for him and he can't make that decision for Gideon. Shimshon, regardless how much he cared for his son, pushed him too far and had too

He begins with comparing the scenario that “ there is nothing to be done when the temperature outside is 85 degrees, and indoors the air conditioner has broken down; obviously when that happens there is nothing to do, except perhaps curse the day when one was born.” With the polar opposite of “ But when the temperature outdoors is below freezing, it takes a positive act of will on somebody’s part to set the temperature indoors at 85 degrees” (3). The usage of these sarcastic remarks shines light of the issue that society could be in control of the very factor that is oppressing them, yet choose to relay silence in fear of creating a bigger affair then

Since 1955 James Baldwin’s essay “Stranger in the Village” has become a legendary work which raises questions about racism, its history and nature. It is usually understood as a classic model which maps the obstacles that African Americans have encountered in white society; also the essay can be interpreted as a lens through which American blacks could perceive the world around them as a result of American slavery. Yet, these speculations fail to take into account the groundlessness of “white supremacy” which is evident from the author’s description of a godforsaken village where people are ignorant and literally entrapped. Moreover, it is unjustified for the protagonist to feel villagers’ dominance since it is inconsistent with circumstances that he presents to readers as well as the apparent advantages that he has over the villagers. And so, if we continue to see the story as simply discriminatory against blacks, we miss an important message of that there is something (values) beyond racial advantages, what the nature of genuine supremacy is (which could be based on other values rather than on color of the skin), (what are the things that are more important than the race) and we fail to make objective judgments of one’s unfeigned domination. In his essay “Stranger in the Village” Baldwin forces readers to confront their cultural assumptions about racial superiority and come to a new understanding of genuine supremacy through extoling contemporary American society over

Henry David Thoreau in his speech-turned-essay, Civil Disobedience, makes the case for individuals to be self-sufficient and independent. Thoreau’s purpose is to illustrate the importance of those qualities in everyday life and how someone should always keep these unwavering principles throughout their existence. Utilizing diction, imagery and syntax, Thoreau adopts a forthright tone to invoke independent thinking, action, and self-contemplation in the American populace.

The novel The Other Wes Moore questions about the perception of whether an individual has a free will through the representation of the poverty cycle throughout the novel and how an individual’s choices are mostly shaped through the environment they encounter. The poverty cycle is perpetuated in the novel The Other Wes Moore through the prejudices, racism, educational inequality and financial inequality that the two Wes Moores encounter throughout their lives with their choices also contributing to the theme of economic injustice and inequality. However, for the most part The Other Wes Moore demonstrates how regardless of an individual’s past, it is possible to achieve anything as well as breaking the poverty cycle that is demonstrated throughout the novel and stresses the chilling fact that the author could have had a similar fate

“The strong were always eating the weak,” James Rollins. Those who have power are more likely to take advantage over those categorized in a lower class. In this fictional novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the overall concept of abuse of power and bullying is portrayed. The protagonist, in particular, is constantly dragged into the many conflicts relating to the theme in many situations throughout the novel. The situations associate Amir and Hassan, the antagonist, Assef, and the Hazaras.

Inherit the Wind is about a 24-year-old teacher named Bertram T. Cates, who is arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution to his junior high-class. Some high-profile Hillsboro town’s people press charges and have Cates arrested for teaching evolutionism in a stringent Christian town. A famous lawyer named Henry Drummond defends him; while a fundamentalist politician Matthew Harrison Brady prosecutes. The story takes place in Hillsboro, which is a small town in Tennessee. Cates is merely trying to teach to his class that there is more to life than just what the Bible teaches. He is not trying to be nonreligious; rather he is just teaching his class to think outside the box. The town’s people think that Cates is trying to push

Underneath the sound of my voice is a song, “Seminole Wind.” If I still myself long enough to stop bringing my own voice and words to life, the song gives me images. The scenery that unfolds in my mind’s eye belongs to the memories of a young girl, who was so confused.

William was able to accomplish many things due to his hard work. William’s hard work did not just affect himself, but his whole village. Due to his hard work, he was able to provide his village with electricity. William was forced to drop out of secondary school due to his parents not having the money to pay the student fees during the drought. He began studying at the library and one day a book about windmill’s caught his eye. William realized that he could try and build a windmill for his house to get electricity. He had set his mind to building a windmill. William worked hard everyday trying to collect materials from the scrapyard and improvising with the things he already had. Most people didn’t help William because they didn’t know who he was and how important his windmill would be. After he built it everyone loved him and changed their views about him. When William had finally had everything he needed his hard work was going to pay off. Even after William had made electricity his hard work just kept paying off. In the novel “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”, an official from the Malawi Teacher Training Activity told Williams dad “You may not realize, but your son has done an amazing thing, and this is only the beginning” (Kamkwamba 251). This clearly shows that Williams hard work was also extraordinary work. Not only was it being recognized by his village, but people around the continent of Africa, and eventually people from all around the world. This is also

According to the cops, you were nothing but a no good hood they all knew was destined to die young and violent. None of those cops would think to charge a Soc with your death. They're too busy kissing up to their rich mommy and daddy's.

The scientific method is a set of principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge to gain an understanding or solution to a problem. The scientific method involves, the recognition and establishment of a problem next, formulate a collection of research to construct a hypothesis, then create a procedure to follow through with an experiment next, analyze data and draw a conclusion. The scientific method is used all over the world every day to make new discoveries. Sometimes the scientific method is not used to find something new but to see if a solution or invention can be recreated. The book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a biography about a bright young man named William Kamkwamba. The book gives a vivid