Read the excerpt from the boy who harnessed the wind
by william kamkwamba,
what do the details in the excerpt reveal about
kamkwamba?
i didn't have a drill, so i had to make my own. first i heated a
long nail in the fire, then drove it through a half a maize cob,
creating a handle. i placed the nail back on the coals until it
became red hot, then used it to bore holes into both sets of
plastic blades. i then wired them together. i didn't have any
pliers, so i used two bicycle spokes to bend and tighten the
wires on the blades.
he is inventive and resourceful,
he disregards others' property,
he is irresponsible and reckless,
he is careful when using tools,

How does shakespeare transform the myth of phoebus and daphne to dramatize this theme?

Which excerpt from the passage provides evidence of a chronological structure? o “slavery was abolished thirty years before the emancipation proclamation." "the sugar plantation owners were desperate." "so the british owners looked to another part of the empire." "thousands of men and women were given five-year contracts.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.