...Been Carson is a man of determination, a man of Dreams! Ben Came from a poor family living in detroit but his mother was an inspiration to not let his status hold him back from his dreams. Benjamin Carson was born sept. 18, 1951 to Sonya and Robert Carson. He was their second son. His mother dropped out of school in 3rd grade. Robert was a baptist minister. At the age of 8 years old Ben’s dad left them for another family, even though at the time 1959 Ben and his brother Curtis, age 10 were not told the exact reason as to why their dad left. This left Ben hurting tremendously as he loved his dad. For weeks Been would question his mother about the situation and he would pray that God help his parents get back together. Eventually he came to realize they could make it without him. “But dad never came home again. As the days and weeks passed, I learned we could get by without him. We were poorer than, and I could tell mother worried, although she didn’t say much to Curtis or me” (Curtis, Ben). After his dad left for good the family was even poorer than before. Sonja would try to get child support from Robert but he would never provide enough and would only give some money for a month or two after court and then he would stop again. In spite of the financial struggles they faced, the boys always had something to eat and a roof over their head. Their mother, Sonja had to work multiple jobs, one right after the other in order to be able to support the 3 of them. This resulted in having...
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...and also Ben Carson's story. He had a lot of struggle while growing up in a broken household but from being pushed by his mother he has accomplished so much and has created a future and a great pathway for children to look up to him. Ben Carson's story was story of a city kid with poor grades and little motivation from anyone in his household or teacher at his school. Who at age 33 , became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. His mother could barely read but still motivated him and his brothers to do better and make them believe that they could do anything they could and made them work harder. The boys didn’t realize that their mother had this problem but still listened to everything that she said because they knew that she only wanted the best for them. She changed the ways in their household so that she could make them realize that they could do what they wanted if they put their mind to it. She made them watch only two motivational and educational Tv shows that would help them motivate their thought process better. The brothers become hooked to a television quiz show, and write two library book reports every week, as their mother had told them. She was a babysitter and house cleaner that devoted her time to work hard and provide for her kids.She saved five dollars every time she earned a paycheck, so she could save up for her previous house and a school that actually wanted the boys in their school programs. Later, Ben and Curtis...
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...go of this fear. This fear of failing, lack of confidence, being hurt, etcetera. Fear was my best friend for a long time. It was always there to pull me down, to deceive me, to make me blind enough not to realize what was out there. If there was one thing my mother always said was “Never let fear control you, you yourself should master it.” Have you ever been in a situation where you felt trapped, and still couldn’t free yourself? Well that person was me. I was the bee in the bottle, that small little helpless bee who’s just trying to find its way out. Now I’m not saying that I was literally trapped in a bottle. My point is, I felt lost and fearful, till one day my eyes were wide opened by a movie I watched “Gifted Hands” with Cuba Gooding Jr. When Ben Carson for the first time in his life took a decision to finally free himself from the thought of being dumb and thinking that the other children were better than he was. If there is something that astonished me, it was that he turned out to be one of the best doctors that have ever lived. I aspire to be a doctor, I’ve always wanted to, but this fear kept me caved in like a child. Being a doctor has always been a dream of mine. When I was about five years old, my parents bought me a doctor’s kit, and I remember correctly that I loved pretending to be a doctor. Ever since, I vowed that when I grew older I would be a doctor. Now as you all know fear was still there to discourage me and make me feel like it would...
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...Bonus: 10 points Ben Carson and Gifted Hands Gifted Hands is the story of the world famous Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Ben Carson. The book tells of Carson’s journey from the bottom of his fifth grade class to his current position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. In his autobiography Carson explains how a strong faith in god, and the help of an extremely strong mother, he was able to overcome not only the doubts of his classmates and teachers but also the doubts of his own intelligence, and turn his life around. Carson’s story begins in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of eight with the departure of his father, leaving young Ben, his brother Curtis, and his mother to fend for themselves. Young Benjamin immediately began to notice changes in what once had been a financially stable family, and that his family would now be forced to struggle to get by. With only a third grade education Carson’s mother was forced to take on two, sometimes three jobs to provide for her two boys. Benjamin and his brother fell farther and farther behind in school; in fifth grade, Carson was at the bottom of his class. His classmates called him "dummy" and he developed a violent, uncontrollable temper. When Mrs. Carson saw Benjamin's failing grades, she determined to turn her sons' lives around. She sharply limited the boys' television watching and refused to let them outside to play until they had finished their homework each day. She required them to read two library...
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...Carson faced many challenges while living in one of the most dangerous cities in the United States. He had limited access to an education where becoming a doctor was not supported. Besides the challenges in Detroit, Carson’s financial situation was poor. Carson’s father, the main source of income, left his family to be with another woman. As written in the autobiography Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Carson’s classmates would “laugh and point at Ben’s clothes, in which his mother could not afford such luxury items” (Carson 23). His clothes were often tattered or dirty. When he attended school, his classmates would often tease him for having low quality materials. His mother had to spend money on other essentials such as food and shelter. The constant taunting wore down Carson’s self-esteem and caused him to develop anger issues. The ridicule Carson faced from his classmates was only half of it; he had trouble academically with concepts. The website, Biography.com, informs how Carson and his brother had experienced great difficulty reading and grasping concepts in school (“Ben Carson Biography”). His mother was uneducated, which was a reason as to why Carson could not receive help with...
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...Work Ethic In the book Gifted Hands Dr. Ben Carson shares many of his experiences of his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Towards the middle of his life, he becomes a world-wide famous pediatric neurosurgeon. The amazing tactic that got him there is his work ethic. If a person have a job, and that person does not have a copious amount of time to do that job, then the person can either do it right the first time, or they can not do it right and slack off until their boss yells at them or something related to that. There are a lot of people in the world that do that with their jobs, occupations, and careers. Work ethic has improved Ben Carson’s life tremendously to the point where he became a pediatric neurosurgeon and then a presidential...
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...Dr. Ben Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan. At a young age, his father left Ben and his family, leaving them in poverty and barely able to make ends meet. Growing up, he developed a violent and uncontrollable temper, but was able to overcome this by finding God and the Bible. This, along with his mother's support, helped Carson graduated with honors from high school and then went to college at Yale, later entering the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan. A few short years later, he became the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His gifted hands helped him earn the title of being the top neurosurgeon in the world and also become the title of a book and movie (Carson and Murphey, 1990). Carson went from living in poverty to being a high ranking medical surgeon (Preston, 2014). He overcame adversity not because his family was privileged, but because of his hard work and dedication. His story is the perfect example of the American Dream. He is also a perfect role model for young Americans who are living in poor, poverty areas, with little guidance. He is a living, breathing example for how anyone can achieve...
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...This stands for insight. Insight is the ability to learn from others that have been where you are. Mr. Carson quotes in his book, Gifted Hands, Solomon. Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, says, “Wise is the man who can learn from someone else’s triumphs and mistakes. The person who cannot is a fool.” N stands for nice. This always falls towards the golden rule: treat others the way you want to be treated. We as people need to treat everyone nicely; we never always know where someone comes from or what they are going through. This will reward you and make you a hero because you never know you could have just saved someone’s life from being nice. K is next. This is knowledge. The key to getting a decent job, a nice house, and a family. This is the second most important letter in THINK BIG just due to the fact that knowledge is the key to everything. It even saves lives. Take Ben Carson for example. If he did not go to school and learn all about the human body and neurosurgery then he could not have saved the many lives he has. Onto the next word, B. B stands for books. Books can bring you from the class dummy to the top neurosurgeon in the world. Books are definitely one of the keys on the ring of...
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...Professor Keirsey has continued to investigate personality differences-to refine his theory of the four temperaments and to define the facets of character that distinguish one from another. His findings form the basis of Please Understand Me II, an updated and greatly expanded edition of the book, far more comprehensive and coherent than the original, and yet with much of the same easy accessibility. One major addition is Keirsey's view of how the temperaments differ in the intelligent roles they are most likely to develop. Each of us, he says, has four kinds of intelligence-tactical, logistical, diplomatic, strategic-though one of the four interests us far more than the others, and thus gets far more practice than the rest. Like four suits in a hand of cards, we each have a long suit and a short suit in what interests us and what we do well, and fortunate indeed are those whose work...
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...GLENCOE LANGUAGE ARTS Grammar and Language Workbook G RADE 9 Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Send all inquiries to: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 936 Eastwind Drive Westerville, Ohio 43081 ISBN 0-02-818294-4 Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 024 03 02 01 00 99 Contents Handbook of Definitions and Rules .........................1 Troubleshooter ........................................................21 Part 1 Grammar ......................................................45 Unit 1 Parts of Speech 1.1 Nouns: Singular, Plural, and Collective ....47 1.2 Nouns: Proper and Common; Concrete and Abstract.................................49 1.3 Pronouns: Personal and Possessive; Reflexive and Intensive...............................51 1.4 Pronouns: Interrogative and Relative; Demonstrative and Indefinite .....................53 1.5 Verbs: Action (Transitive/Intransitive) ......55 1.6 Verbs: Linking .............................................57 1.7 Verb Phrases ................................................59 1.8 Adjectives ....................................................61 1.9 Adverbs........................................................63 1.10 Prepositions...
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...GAME CHANGE OBAMA AND THE CLINTONS, MCCAIN AND PALIN, AND THE RACE OF A LIFETIME JOHN HEILEMANN AND MARK HALPERIN FOR DIANA AND KAREN Contents Cover Title Page Prologue Part I Chapter One – Her Time Chapter Two – The Alternative Chapter Three – The Ground Beneath Her Feet Chapter Four – Getting to Yes Chapter Five – The Inevitables Chapter Six – Barack in a Box Chapter Seven – “They Looooove Me!” Chapter Eight – The Turning Point Chapter Nine – The Fun Part Chapter Ten – Two For the Price of One Chapter Eleven – Fear and Loathing in the Lizard’s Thicket Chapter Twelve – Pulling Away and Falling Apart Chapter Thirteen – Obama Agonistes Chapter Fourteen – The Bitter End Game Part II Chapter Fifteen – The Maverick and His Meltdown Chapter Sixteen – Running Unopposed Chapter Seventeen – Slipping Nooses, Slaying Demons Part III Chapter Eighteen – Paris and Berlin Chapter Nineteen – The Mile-High Club Chapter Twenty – Sarahcuda Chapter Twenty-One – September Surprise Chapter Twenty-Two – Seconds in Command Chapter Twenty-Three – The Finish Line Epilogue – Together at Last Index Author’s Notes About the Authors Copyright About the Publisher Prologue BARACK OBAMA JERKED BOLT upright in bed at three o’clock in the morning. Darkness enveloped his low-rent room at the Des Moines Hampton Inn; the airport across the street was quiet in the hours before dawn. It was very late December 2007, a few days ahead of the Iowa caucuses. Obama had been sprinting flat out...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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...Management Revised Edition Peter F. Drucker with Joseph A. Maciariello Contents Introduction to the Revised Edition of Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices Preface 1 2 3 Part I 4 5 6 7 Part II 8 9 10 11 Part III 12 Introduction: Management and Managers Defined Management as a Social Function and Liberal Art The Dimensions of Management Management’s New Realities Knowledge Is All New Demographics The Future of the Corporation and the Way Ahead Management’s New Paradigm Business Performance The Theory of the Business The Purpose and Objectives of a Business Making the Future Today Strategic Planning: The Entrepreneurial Skill Performance in Service Institutions Managing Service Institutions in the Society of Organizations vii xxiii 1 18 26 35 37 45 51 65 83 85 97 113 122 129 131 iv Contents 13 14 15 16 Part IV 17 18 19 Part V 20 21 What Successful and Performing Nonprofits Are Teaching Business The Accountable School Rethinking “Reinventing Government” Entrepreneurship in the Public-Service Institution Productive Work and Achieving Worker Making Work Productive and the Worker Achieving Managing the Work and Worker in Manual Work Managing the Work and Worker in Knowledge Work Social Impacts and Social Responsibilities Social Impacts and Social Responsibilities The New Pluralism: How to Balance the Special Purpose of the Institution with the Common Good The Manager’s Work and Jobs Why Managers? Design and Content of Managerial Jobs Developing...
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