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Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.I decided to put his entire machine shop in our basement, but there were two problems... One, his shop wouldn't fit in our basement, and two, there was no way the lathe, weighing fifteen hundred pounds, and the milling machine, weighing two thousand pounds, could be carried into the basement. I solved this problem by hiring a contractor to dig a large hole, break open a wall of the basement, enclose the addition with concrete, and add a roof that could be used for building an outside deck to the house. I also enlarged my mother's kitchen and pantry. I now had the entire machine shop in our basement. At the time I was making enough money from my electronic devices to pay for all of this.

Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.I didn't officially graduate from Worcester Polytechnic Institute until years later when I was awarded their honorary Ph.D. By then I'd created and patented many successful inventions.

Read this excerpt from Mayor Seth Low's speech at the Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge.Gentlemen of the Trustees—With profound satisfaction, on behalf of the City of Brooklyn, I accept the completed Bridge. Fourteen times the earth has made its great march through the heavens since the work began. The vicissitudes of fourteen years have tried the courage and the faith of engineers and of people.

Read the excerpt from "Woman's Rights to the Suffrage."It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our [descendants], but to the whole people – women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government – the ballot.

Read the excerpt from "Woman's Rights to the Suffrage."Friends and Fellow Citizens: I stand before you tonight [having been accused of] the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any State to deny.

Read the excerpt from "Georgia O'Keeffe: Modernist Pioneer."In 1917, Stieglitz presented a solo show of O’Keeffe’s work. After a repeat success, more exhibits followed. In the summer of 1918, she left her teaching job and moved to New York to paint full time. There she became a member of a small circle of modernists who were also backed by Stieglitz. She married him six years later in 1924, and their shared vision led to a life of support for each other’s work. Over the next twenty-two years, the two of them enjoyed one of the best partnerships in art history.

Why did the author most likely include information about O'Keeffe's summers in New Mexico in "Georgia O'Keeffe: Modernist Pioneer"?

Read the excerpt from "Georgia O'Keeffe: Modernist Pioneer."After graduating, Georgia studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. She began by painting still lifes and received a scholarship. In spite of this award, Georgia was bored. Her paintings were too much like other works of art. She wanted to make something different, although she didn’t yet know what it was.