Saving a Life

Ben Carson proved himself to be an extraordinary man when he tackled a procedure that most surgeons do not attempt because of the possibility for the patients full recovery is slim to none. Before performing the hemispherectomy I presume that he prayed to God, because he himself stated that God lead his hands throughout the whole operation. Carson was precise when planning the steps and the people who were to be involved in his surgery; he had Dr. Knuckey by his side and he was going to take twice as long as previous surgeons had taken. Dr. Carson beat the odds and the surgery was a success, he removed the left-hemisphere of young Maranda's brain and accomplished the impossible. Even though I do not plan on becoming a surgeon I do want to be a Doctor, and this story inspires me to go above and beyond, even if the situation seems impossible.



Revelations: An anthology of Expository essays by and about blacks. Pg 122

The Black Founding Fathers

"The Black Founding Fathers," an essay by Lerone Bennet, discusses the breaking away of Black Americans from white institutions. It all started with St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church, when Reverend Absalom Jones was told he could not kneel in the church. After the prayer was concluded the "first mass demonstration in black American history" began. Soon after this demonstration blacks from many other cities began to walk out of white institutions and established their own. With the formation of African societies, Black leaders emerged, Churches were established as well as fraternal orders, schools, and Black American culture. This was a time when Black Americans stopped following Whites and developed their own path.


Revelations: An Anthology of expository essays by and about blacks. pg. 105-109

Never African Again

To deny your race, is to deny yourself. In Never African Again, Gerald Early told the reader  "Our profound past of being African, which we must never forget, must be balanced by the complex fate of being American, which we can never deny or, worse, evade. For we must accept who and what we are and the forces and the conditions that have made us this, not as defeat or triumph, not in shame or with grandiose pride, but as the tangled, strange, yet poignant and immeasurable record of an imperishable human presence." Many African Americans today are unsure of who they are as an African. We call ourselves African Americans but we do not really  know about the African side of being an African American. History books leave out our history, with the exception of briefly mentioning slavery and the civil rights movement;therefore we grow up without knowing who we are, and the power and strength of the people that we came from. We, as the next generation of African American leaders, must learn who we are completely as a person of African descent and as an American so that we do not deny our Past nor our Present, for these to elements combined will help map out our future.

Never African Again, Gerald Early--Revelations

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