Showing posts with label Ben Carson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ben Carson. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2015

Student Success Statement
A Choice: Poverty or Prosperity
“I hated poverty.
Poverty is more of a choice than anything else, and I can change that (poverty). It depends upon how hard I want to work, and I decided that I would change it.”
Dr. Ben Carson
Reflection:
What I think the quote by Dr. Ben Carson means that when your mind is set that you will always be stuck0 in poverty and you’ll never make it out then you never will. If you decide I don’t want to live in poverty because if you really wanted to you’ll find a way. Like Ben Carson’s mother tried her hardest trying to not be in poverty any longer. Since his mother did that it influenced him to try his hardest and make it out of poverty.
Ben Carson

  • Born in the slums of Detroit in deep poverty
  • His mother and father divorced
  • His mother came from a family of 24 children 
  • His mother couldn't read
  • His mother raised Ben and his brother, Curtis
  • Ben was the worst of in his grade school
  • Ben becomes top student in his high school
  • Ben becomes a renowned doctor