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How Did Ben Carson Impact Personal Life

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1. How did Ben Carson's story impact your personal life? Give 2-3 examples.
Ben Carson’s story impacted my personal life in many ways. Ben Carson is an inspiration for numerous aspiring doctors or other careers in the medical field. He is also an inspiration to people of color and financially unstable people. He has surpassed multiple hardships and is a very successful person today. Everyone who is active in currents events know who he is because he is running for the Republican Presidential Election and/or his astounding and notable surgeries.
One major aspect in his life that inspired me that I have the potential of fulfilling my dreams is his humble beginnings. Carson was not as privileged as he is today; he was an inner city kid born and raised in Detroit by only his mother. His mother made sure her children had morals and an education because she herself did not go to school past the third grade and was not able to read well. In the beginning of his school years, he was at the back of his class and made fun of by the other children because he did not excel in his classes. He turned this around and became top of his class due to his mother enforcement of studious habits. Despite his past, he was accepted into one of the most elite universities in the world, Yale University. Ben Carson was also admitted into a prestigious …show more content…

As a child, he was only allowed to watch a few shows a week that were educational and write book reports weekly to his mother. He was heavily interested in an eclectic genre of books that sparked his interest in the medical field. Ben Carson was a diligent student who was very intelligent and hardworking. All his hard work paid off; when he was in his early thirties, Carson was the head of the Neurology department completing thousands of successful life saving surgeries. He was heavily praised and acknowledged for the successful separation of the Siamese

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