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Kansas teen uses 3-D printer to make hand for boy

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/01/31/3261314/kansas-teen-uses-3-d-printer-to.html#storylink=cpy

In this article it talks about a Kansas teen building a prostatic hand for a little boy. The hand was created using a 3-D printer at his local library. If they did surgery for the boy it would have cost around 18,000 dollars to do. But it only cost 60 dollars to build and make as cool as the boy wanted it to be. This hand has changed has life in so many ways. His mom thought his self-confidence would be wrecked because of kids making fun of him. But now with his new hand kids are making him feel normal.

I'm so happy that this kid was able to get a hand of his own. I have not had anything like this happen to me but I can see it being very difficult. If it wasn't for someone who actually cared about people this kids life might have never changed. They need to start doing this for every person that's a prostatic. Its much cheaper and faster to do.

What is the central idea of the passage and how is it developed and refined throughout the selection?
The idea of this passage is a teenager builds a robot hand for a little boy. It starts out talking about how he is very good at taking stuff apart and putting them back together again. Then later on it talks about how he got the ideas and how he built the hand at his local library.


Williams, Mara Rose. Kansas teen uses 3-D printer to make hand for boy. Kansas. February 5, 2014. Web. February 24, 2014. <http://www.kansas.com/2014/01/31/3261314/kansas-teen-uses-3-d-printer-to.html.>.

Sleezer, John. "The Kansas City Star." Photograph. Kansas. February 5, 2014. Media. February 24, 2014. <http://www.kansas.com/2014/01/31/3261314/kansas-teen-uses-3-d-printer-to.html.>.

Justin Bieber's downward spiral: What to tell the kids?

In this article it talks about how even though Justin drank and drive and we should look at this and see that even celebrities are people too. We shouldn't look to this as a problem but as an example of why we shouldn't do this. It also says, "It is important to remind our kids that our mistakes do not define us," said Melissa Atkins Wardy.

I agree with what Melissa said about how our mistakes do not define us. I might live a great perfect life but everyone is going to mess up sometime in their life. We can't help it, its just human mistakes. I remember when Justin Bieber came out and I thought it was a girl. But he seemed to have an okay reputation and then this one screw up. I'm not saying its okay what he did but I'm not saying I hate him for making a mistake. This doesn't affect me that much because I don't look at celebrities as role models. So I just see this as something that could show everyone that "the poplar's" are just like me and you.


Wallace, Kelly. Justin Bieber's downward spiral: What to tell the kids? . CNN. January 24, 2014. Web. February 10, 2014. <http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/24/living/justin-bieber-arrest-talk-to-kids-parents/index.html?hpt=hp_bn11.>.

Justin Bieber mugshot, front. Photograph. commons.wikimedia. January 23, 2014. Media. February 10, 2014. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Justin_Bieber_mugshot,_front.jpg.>.