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= Moments That Changed Everything =

"Harrison Bergeron"
A piece of literature written by Kurt Vonnegut, a story about a dystopian future where everybody wears handicaps to make them equal because of amendments 211, 212, and 213. These handicaps made everybody as strong as one another, as good looking as one another, and even simulating the feeling of being brain damaged like another. A man named Harrison Bergeron decided to rebel against these laws, and decided to broadcast himself doing such. He decides to go invade a dance studio and show how free he was, and bring a ballerina along to experience it and have their moment, but then he got interrupted by enforcers of the law and got gunned down. Another example of a moment changing everything is another story with Harrison Bergeron's father, A pro-handicapper named George Bergeron explained what would happen if one person took off their handicaps, "If I tried to get away with it," said George, "then other people'd get away with it-and pretty soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn't like that, would you?" A prime example of a moment changing everything is a chain reaction, and what he is saying describes exactly that.

"The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind"
A true story written by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba, but the true story is based off of WIlliam Kamkwamba, the boy who created the first windmill in Africa to save his country. He lived in Malawi, but a drought created a scarcity of food and water. During the dark times, he went to the library to read some books he could find. And he found one that showed, to him, a pinwheel. But in that moment of reading it, he was reading about turning many things, like the sun, into energy. But what caught his attention were windmills, they pumped water to create electricity, but also solve the starvation that was going on currently. Because of that book, he sought on to go and building the first windmill in Africa, said so right here, "Standing there looking at this book, I decided I would build my own windmill." with some help, he was still a young boy at the time, 13 years old. Collecting scraps and materials to build the windmill, some thought he was crazy, which is understandable, he was 13, but stuck through with the plan and asked for help through the project. In the end, he built a windmill that saved his country, Malawi, and it was all thanks to that book he found in the library that he didn't starve, as well as improve the light problem they were suffering with.

"Barrio Boy"
A story made by Ernesto Galarza, based on his experience when he was young, from moving from mexico to a neighborhood in Sacramento, California. He goes to a new school, but the colors and textures of the school walls made him relatively anxious. But being exposed to cultures that weren't just American and seeing how diverse it was showed him to learn to like where he came from, and it was all thanks to this school. There were also smaller moments of things changing everything for him, he was relatively cautious between his principal and himself when they first met, "Then Miss Hopley did a formidable thing. She stood up. Had she been standing when we entered she would have seemed tall. But rising from her chair she soared. And what she carried up and up with her was a buxom superstructure, firm shoulders, a straight sharp nose, full cheeks slightly molded by a curved line along the nostrils, thin lips that moved like steel springs, and a high forehead topped by hair gathered in a bun. Miss Hopley was not a giant in body but when she mobilized it to a standing position she seemed a match for giants. I decided I liked her." Basically, that whole large paragraph was Barrio Boy being impressed.