Stephen Davis Anthropology

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Stephen Davis is doing what he does best, and that’s inventing. He generated a prosthetic arm that can grab just with one motion. Stephen has shared it online, so people who also have this disability can make the prosthetic limb, but if you go to his shed, you can get it for free. And if you think the arm doesn't work, just ask him to show you his. Ever since Stephen started creating the limbs, he has founded team UnLimbited. The group creates the arms with cool designs that make kids want to wear them.
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When I read this article and I thought to myself, “How is there men like this, giving up their money so kids can be able to get a prosthetic limb that they may grow out of in about a month,” because Stephen loves everyone in this world. He doesn't care about money, yet Stephen's 43, not even close to dying (which I thought if I were older I would start doing this but not at 43) and he produces prosthetic limbs that are 22 euros to make and for kids that will probably grow out of it in a month or less for free. I was amazed what the human spirit can do to impact people. When Stephen was their age, he used stuff that looked as if they were from a torture chamber for a prosthetic arm but
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Years later he was invited to their wedding. Stephen is like him because Stephen is giving those kids the limbs for free and it could impact them to be less self-aware about themselves and give them hope that not everyone is bad, not everyone thinks you're weird because you have one arm people now call you different. Stephen is also like Coach Ed Boone in remember the titans because he puts others before himself just like Coach Boone did. It makes you think about how you should try to impact people in ways like that, just by showing leadership or just by doing one random act of kindness every

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