My Personal Pact

My pact is between myself, I made a vale to myself to never let my friends out do me. The reason I did that is because where I come from it is very easy to do wrong just like in The Pact, but you are the one who has to find a reason to want to do great and succeed in life. The people I hung out with wasn’t the best people to hang out with, so I got myself another set of friends but I didn’t  abandon my other friends, I just startled the fence as some would say. All my friends understood what I was doing and didn’t have a problem with me doing it just as long as I kept my bond with them and didn’t treat them differently than I had before. I often let the bad side of me control my action and end up in trouble then I would lean and rely on my good friends to get me out of the trouble that I had landed myself in. Still, not learning from my mistakes I continued the same path of startling the fence of two sets of friends. Finally I was at a point in my live after high school that I must choose between the two sets of friends to follow, and I choose the good set of friends that I would be like, and that was the best influence on me, and that was going to help me and not drag me down to be or have nothing in life.

 

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Order Today  This true story follows three young men as they grow up in tough neighborhoods and through sheer luck manage to escape big trouble with the law.  They find themselves at an informational meeting about a program that helps inner city kids become doctors.  The three make a pact to see it through to the end.  There are many times when one or another wants to quit and the other two have to remind him of why he wants to be a doctor.   The story tells of some of the trouble these boys got into as young kids and why it is so difficult to even go to college from where they come from. This story does try to tell the story as accurately as possible.  The neighborhood friends and scrapes with the law are all mentioned in vivid detail, but in each instance they somehow manage to escape unscathed.  There are many young men out there who are not so lucky.  The pact was a good way to keep each other motivated and it is unlikely that all three would have succeeded without the other two.  Readers who liked Hole in My Life will like this one, but the writing is not as sophisticated as that one and often details are glossed over in order to move the story along faster.  An interesting story for those who like nonfiction.

Order Today In The Bond, the Three Doctors examine their own tough childhoods to explore the national epidemic of fatherlessness. But rather than cling to any bitterness or pain they may have felt as children about their fathers’ inability to be in their lives, as adults Davis, Jenkins, and Hunt sought out their fathers and worked to reconnect with them. In the doctors’ own words-and their fathers’-they describe the crucial lessons they learned, identifying ways to stem the tide of fatherlessness that’s sweeping through communities across the country. Honest, brave, and poignant, The Bond is a book for every family, every father, and every man.

Order Today With the success of our book, The Pact, a New York Times and Essence #1 Bestseller, we have blazed new trails in delivering powerful messages of hope and inspiration to communities across the country. The Pact has uplifted and motivated many people, the world over, by delivering a much needed blue print of real life. Throughout our travels community groups, schools and parents from across the country have insisted that we create a children’s resource reflecting our story and the key messages of The Pact. With the numerous inquiries and suggestion of a children’s book, we went back to work immediately to write a new book for the young readers. We understand firsthand that, the earlier you reach youngsters the better their chances to face life’s many challenges. Our goal is therefore to inspire the nation, one individual at a time. The new children’s book serves as a continuous source of motivation and will assist many of our educators and parents who now find innovative ways to share our messages in our New York Times Bestseller, The Pact.

 

 

 

 

Recommendation for The Pact

          The Pact by the Three Doctors is a great book to read, it is a book that can relate to a lot of teenager life in this day and time now. They faced things like smoking drugs, drinking, Robbing people, stealing from stores; Fight other kids and being involved in gangs. This book related to me growing up as a teen in Robeson County, so I know it can relate to you growing up were ever you from, because as teens we all face the same things in poor community no matter what town or state your from, you just got to learn how to overcome what you go through and find a way to use what you been threw as a tool for success. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”  George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession This book teaches and helps inspire young teen to do better no matter the circumstances that they go through, because everyone go through life with some kind of problem. You should not use problems as a reason to fail. This book is the number one selling book because people of the inspiration that the book gives other. I recommend everyone especially young teens to read this book. The three doctors grew up in the streets of Newark, facing city life’s temptations, pitfalls, even jail. But one day these three young men made a pact. They promised each other they would all become doctors, and stick it out together through the long, difficult journey to attaining that dream. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt are not only friends to this day—they are all doctors. This is a story about the power of friendship. They teach you about the power of joining forces and beating the odds of the streets of Newark when everyone knows your going to fail. This is a story about changing your life, and the lives of those you love most together. As teenagers from a rough part of Newark, New Jersey, Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins had nothing special going for them except loving mothers (one of whom was a drug user) and above-average intelligence. Their first stroke of luck was testing into University High, one of Newark's three magnet high schools, and their second was finding each other. They were busy staying out of trouble (most of the time), and discovering the usual ways to skip class and do as little schoolwork as possible, when a recruitment presentation on Seton Hall University reignited George's childhood dream of becoming a dentist. The college was offering a tempting assistance package for minorities in its Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Plus Program. George convinced his two friends to go to college with him. They would help each other through. None of them would be allowed to drop out and be reabsorbed by the Newark streets.

Blog Experience

 
         Today, my blog will be about my experience of writing this blog. When I first started writing the blog I didn't have time to do it, but after the first post I quickly fell in love with it. I couldn't stop writing in my blog after is started. Then I got bored with it because it was taking up a lot of my free time, because I had to read the book called "The Pact" and after every chapter we had to write about something, this was a long process for me, because I work 12 hour a night while sleeping during the day. I really loved writing this blog but just very time consuming to me someone who doesn’t have a lot of time in my life to give. My blog is about the Three Doctor’s from Newark New Jersey and their experience grown up in the troubled streets were they tried to stay out of trouble. It was very hard for them to keep away from trouble but they did what they had to, too survive the streets of Newark.  Being a teenager is hard, harder than some can imagine, harder than someone can remember. It’s those years you’ll never forget, though you sometimes wish you could wipe away. They seem to last forever, but when you look back, they went by so fast. Being a teenager is falling in love too fast and too hard, talking for hours on the phone to your best friends. Being talked about and talking about others, it’s being guilty when your innocent, it’s about standing out and fitting in. It’s when you have a million questions that will never be answered. Being a teenager isn’t something you can really describe. We all have our tough times and our cat fights. Everyone goes through something, but being a teenager, that’s when you feel everything at once. When you’re in love, you’re really in love. When you hate someone, you despise someone. When you’re lonely, you’re miserable. Being a teenager is something you have always got to go through and it’s the best and worst years of your life. Being a teenager isn’t anything, it’s everything. It isn’t a big deal, it’s a HUGE deal; and while you’re being a teenager, you ought to live it up because this is the one chance, the one time, you’ll be young, and free and careless; because you are only young once. So screw it up because in the end, no one gets out alive anyway. But, being a teenager in Newark is harder “imagining that”. That’s what made me connect to this book and want to write this blog. I made many personal connections while reading the book and writing the blog that often made me wonder what brought me out the streets and graduate high school and head on a path toward success. Writing this blog was a great experience, and truly enjoyed creating it based on the book that I read. While writing this blog I have learned a lot, because I have never written a blog before. while writing I learned how to post video and links to my page and post thing to my blog the correct way.

Chapter 16

              On page 210, of The Pact, "you might not understand now," she said . " But God allowed this for a reason." That reminded me of what was said in the "Bible"  Jesus replied, "You don't understand now what I am doing, but someday you will."

Thou knowest not now - Though he saw the action of Jesus, yet he did not fully understand the design of it. It was a symbolical action, inculcating a lesson of humility, and intended to teach it to them in such a manner that it would be impossible for them ever to forget it. Had he simply commanded them to be humble, it would have been far less forcible and impressive than when they saw him actually performing the office of a servant.

Shalt know hereafter - Jesus at that time partially explained it John 13:14-15; but he was teaching them by this expressive act a lesson which they would continue to learn all their lives. Every day they would see more and more the necessity of humility and of kindness to each other, and would see that they were the servants of Christ and of the church, and ought not to aspire to honors and offices, but to be willing to perform the humblest service to benefit the world. And we may remark here that God often does things which we do not fully understand now, but which we may hereafter. He often afflicts us; he disappoints us; he frustrates our plans. Why it is we do not know now, but we yet shall learn that it was for our good, and designed to teach us some important lesson of humility and piety. So he will, in heaven, scatter all doubts, remove all difficulties, and show us the reason of the whole of his mysterious dealings in his leading us in the way to our future rest. We ought also, in view of this, to submit ourselves to him; to hush every murmur, and to believe that he does all things well. It is one evidence of piety when we are willing to receive affliction at the hand of God, the reason of which we cannot see, content with the belief that we may see it hereafter; or, even if we never do, still having so much confidence in God as to believe that what He does is right.

Perhaps you are thinking, "Well, what's the point? What does God accomplish by allowing us to suffer?" Very simple: He's trying to tell us something. By allowing people to suffer, God is showing us that something is wrong. If everything were alright between man and God, then there would be no sorrow and death, because in the beginning there was none. God is showing you every day of your life that man has been separated from Him because of sin, and that man is destined to an eternity in hell fire unless he comes to God for help. The fact that God allows suffering and agony today proves that He will allow it in eternity as well.

God doesn't enjoy seeing anyone suffer, but He does allow people to suffer for various reasons. If you've never received the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, then God wants you to see your need to do so. Sometimes God has to allow tragedy to enter a life in order to get someone to look to Him for Salvation. As someone has said, "Some people won't look up to God until He puts them on their back." This is sad, but true. There are many people who would still be lost in their sins if God had not brought some tragedy into their life to get their attention. 

 

   
 

Chapter 15

The color of our skin alone was enough to make us suspect. This Quote on page 200 of The Pact Reminds me of this case.
Trayvon Martin was not innocent. He was guilty of being black in presumably restricted public space...
For more than two years, vocal pockets of conservative activists and politicians demanded proof of President Obama’s citizenship—as if a black man was trespassing simply by being elected to the Oval Office. As the president was being asked to show his papers to the nation, state governments in Arizona, Alabama and South Carolina empowered police officers, school officials and merchants to demand proof of citizenship from anyone they deemed suspicious of immigration violations—suspicions that are triggered primarily by racial, ethnic and linguistic profiling. Despite the dramatic legal changes brought about by the ending of Jim Crow, it is once again socially, politically and legally acceptable to presume the guilt of nonwhite bodies.
This is the political setting for the moment when George Zimmerman approached Trayvon Martin as he walked home in the rain with a bag of Skittles.

 

 

chapter 14

      My friends respected me enough not to do certain things in my apartment or in my presence. on page189 of The Pact Respect is a positive feeling of esteem or deference for a person or other entity (such as a nation or a religion), and also specific actions and conduct representative of that esteem. Respect can be a specific feeling of regard for the actual qualities of the one respected (e.g., "I have great respect for her judgment"). It can also be conduct in accord with a specific ethic of respect. Rude conduct is usually considered to indicate a lack of respect, disrespect, where as actions that honor somebody or something indicates respect. Specific ethics of respect are of fundamental importance to various cultures. Others in society, people that have important roles on a way that a person lives on a day-to-day basis, earn the respect of others by assisting us. For example, teachers or coworkers or the people we encounter everyday certainly deserve a measure of respect. Simple words and phrases like, "Thank you," and simple mechanisms, like a smile or a pat on the back, show a level of respect that over time will form, within a culture, a cohesive bond.

 

Chapter 13 Quote

     The Quote from Page 177 of “The Pact is” you can’t aim for what you don't see. We all grow in different places with different styles of living and up bringing. “Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it” --Viktor E. Frankly, What is being said is that if someone is never introduced to something how is he supposed to know anything about it. The way you grow up has a lot to do with who you become. I your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.  the role of family and the environment around the home often dominated people's ideas about what affected psychological well-being.

 

          

 

Veido that reminds me of The Pact

Marvin Sapp never would have made it is what I think about when I read the book The Pact about the Three doctors. They never would have made it if it wasn't for a lot of people caring for the like Carla. If they didn't have each other they probably would have never made it.

Chapter 12 Qoute

        I had heard the term "lovesick" and thought it was something that happened to girls, certainly not guys like me. I was in high school  when I first learned the term when I was going with this girl named Brittany. Me and Brittany had started talking cause me the charming type everyday would see her and blow kisses, or talk sweet to her on a regular basis. Brittany was involved with this boy that I know of, and I had stolen her away from him at least I had thought; come to find out Brittany was playing both side living the best of both world how she did it still to this day I don't know because I demanded much of her time. When I first learned of what was going on instead of me taking it out on her I took it out on the other guy, we often to got into fights to show our love while she was enjoy the show. I was in love head over heels for her and he was to and she knew that so she told us that she could not choose and had to accept the fact that she was going to see both of us. I really liked this girl so I played along with it until I realized that I was being made a fool so I then ended our relationship, and moved on so I had though I dreamed of her passed her home everyday became her sister best friend just in order to keep her on my brain. what ever I did I made sure it effected her in some type of way because I wanted her to my self bad. we got back tight after I graduated school and began talking again not knowing her and the same dude was still talking, because she had told me she ended. well it was a lie and I had finally made my mine up that I couldn't be with her so we would be just friends. But that the moment that taught me the term lovesick.  

Cahpter 11 qoute

           Rap Music defined our generation the way that Motown had defined our parent's era. As I read that quote from the book I think about my life and how Rap music plays a major role in my life. I'm a very passionate person and I show my passion through music. When I listen to music I try to connect to what is being said in the songs and connect it to my personal life. if you listen to music you often hear things that relates to you, and with rap music if reflects the way I grew up and live my life so I have a very strong connection with Rap music. Rap music also known as hip hop affect the clothes I wear, and the cars I drive, and they way I interacts with others in my personal life. Hip hop is very powerful and has a lot of influence in young kids life's today as it did mine when I was growing up.
I often question hip hop, the way its leading our young kids, and adults in to prison for wanting to live the dope boy life or the life of a thug. I often want to challenge hip hop artist to empower kinds to do the right thing in there music instead of influencing them to sell drug to live a flashy life style.  All music not just hip hop have effects on how people live there life but I feel my music of choice hip hop has the most impact on society and should do some to give back since it has did so much to take away from society. 

Giving Back

        Giving back is very importance specially when it come to your community. In my community I try to ensure that the kids get jobs to support them self's so that their parent can have some kind of freedom. Getting the kids jobs helps them and their parents because, parents often can't afford the life style the kids want to live and it create problems between them so I step in and help out with showing the kids that you are old enough to help your mom out take responsibility. I also help out with the church helping the elderly come in and out of the church. I like helping them because they are some of the ones who helped paved the way for us to have it as easy as we do in our life. I often sit and listen to what is going on in the teenagers life to see if I can help in anyway that I can. you can also find me donating time to support the high basket, and football programs, helping the coaches motivate the kids to want to do better in school and life. you'll see me giving money, food, clothes, and shoe sometimes also if I can because I wish I had someone to do the same for me when I was young and in school and couldn't afford things that I needed or wanted. I give now because I have a great job and can afford to help someone else who don't "I can show you to the way to get job and be successful in life but I cant do it for you its up to you is what I tell them". I just want them to not think that I'm better than them, but show them  that they to can have the same things in life if they want it bad enough and is willing to work hard for it and not give up when the road is hard.

Chapter 10

        After I had graduated high school I made it my business to guide the other that I had often lead into trouble, now leading them to success in life and made sure they graduate from high school and get their life on track. I tried but the results wasn't great and they returned to the streets to sell drugs, and live the life that they was expected to live from the other negative boys in the hood. I often felt ashamed of thing I did from then on that had a negative effect on my personal life.

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As black JROTC students we were expected to set examples for other black male. We had to show others we could be cool and be in JROTC also to bust the rate of black males in the program. First sergeant often took us out to eat and kept us hanging with him to do something, just to keep us out the streets. He gave us money when we were broke and couldn’t afford to do something that the other boys were doing and our parents couldn’t do it he would he was one of the coolest teacher I had ever had.

He made it clear that he was only doing it to save us from the streets because he sees potential in us to become better people than the people we were.

 

In chapter nine Carla often pushed Sam and the others to stay focus and to stay in school. She often went in her pocket to pay for expenses for them to stay in school. Carla was on a mission to save black boys from the street. She knew exactly what they was going through when their parents couldn’t afford to pay for Sam, Rameck, and George to stay in school she would find a way to pay for it herself . That’s what First sergeant did for us.

They were on a mission to save us from the streets no matter what it took for them to get us away the went through the extreme to do it.

Personal connection to Chapter 8

The personal connection I made with this book chapter is, when I went to stay with my aunt across town , and began to do a little better in school because if felt that I had a stable home.

I grew closer with my childhood friend and we began to hang real closely walking to and from school, playing football, running track and taking JROTC class together, if one did something we both had to take part in it. We challenged each other to do well in school often comparing grades to each others, and would talk junk to one if he didn’t produce the same type of grade. Just like in the chapter I had no father figure at home and looked up to my uncle or people had already been thru what I had to go through, that’s who often taught me the value of life. Me and my childhood friend often got in trouble be was smarter enough not to get caught doing it, letting other get caught doing the dirt and we laugh at them cause they wasn’t smart enough to stop letting the feeling of trouble overwhelm them. We both looked up to a teacher his name was first sergeant our JROTC teacher who was just like our father. He often guided us to make something of ourselves and leave the bad company behind not knowing we were the bad company on others.

In the book Racmeck talks about how often he was pushed by Carla to do better and not let them give up on school she made theme visualize themselves as Doctors a way to help keep them focus.

We in my life my teacher often cursed at us out of anger and frustration of us doing poor and living the thug life. He often made us visualize our self's as drug dealer dead or in jail of cripple to show us that's were we were headed, if we didn't clean up our act.

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George and Sam and Rameck were now seniors in high school. George often asked them daily how they was coming along with the application for college wanting to make sure they held of their end of applying to the doctors program. Sam didn’t know if he wanted to spend 8 years in medical school or pressure business. Rameck steal had planned to apply to Howard University so George applied to two other colleges and was on the pre-medical/pre-dental plus program at Steon Hall. They often bragged to each other to show what other progress in what they were doing for college. Carla was the school development specialist where she met Rameck and Sam and George were she talked and interview them for the doctor plus program and kind of assured them they would make it in. They all were accepted to the school and had other offer to other schools but couldn’t afford them, so Seton Hall was the best fit for them all. They finally graduated high school and then knew they had survived the streets of Newark. They now had a plan and path for life to become Doctors were others kids were dyeing everyday.

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Sam who is called Marshall during summer distance away from George, and Rameck, had to walk the streets of the community were thugs would beat up kids like himself and rob them of money, jewelry, and shoes, and clothes. the Dalton street boys were a gang of men from that community who had nothing better to do they thought but get in trouble. The boy had began towards a life with no direction walking away from people who pulled out guns to shoot them as if they didn’t care heartless you can say. Sam had a job at McDonald’s geared to help out at home. He had altered his birth date by a year to receive the job. He often tried to do the right thing but everywhere he turned someone or something was trying to pull him down. By his junior year he was smoking drinking and hanging out late at night with the older boys in the hood that were engaged to guide him into trouble. He had started invest money in buying crack for his boys to sale so they could split the profit later. Sam was caught up in making money so he never returned to McDonald’s because he was making more money buy and flipping dope. Eventually he eased his way out of selling dope not wanting to keep that life style. They offer him to smoke cocaine and weed but yet again he know right from wrong and turns it down, he friends said what u think you better than that or something, he lineally said no just to fade right now. He felt he had to lie to say no to drug afraid of what they thought about him, he didn’t want to appear weak to them even though he knew they were wrong. They started to ride around Newark and look for inexperienced drug deals and rob them of their money and drugs they often pressured him to do thing he didn’t want to do and sometimes he said no and other he felt he could not get out of even though he wanted to do so. they start using his car to rob the drug dealers, one night everything went wrong when police were staking them out Sam quickly yell to alert the boys of police present but it was too late when they got caught Marshall ran and got away he double back to get his car and it had been towed by the police and his boys had been locked up. somehow the police knew he was involved, he wanted to lie on his boys and say they had stole his car but he couldn’t faced that for lie so he said he did it and once again he was in trouble with the law.

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Rameck still headed for trouble, hanging with the boys from Plainfield’s community. He was warned by his aunt Nichole; often that he was headed for trouble. Nicole, and Rameck was one four years apart and grow up as brother and sister rather than cousins she was very protective of him. Trouble had already begun for Rameck, and the boy of Plainfield’s they were robbing, beating, and steals from people. He had began to take drinks of beer with the boys which at first he couldn't stand the taste of. They began riding bikes to neighboring towns picking fight Witt the boy at other bus stops.

 Rameck had began to skip classes to hang with them, it felt good that they were happy to see him, of the all the boys Rameck and Marley had spent time in Juvenile when younger they beat up a white man and broke his nose they did three years a piece, when they got out the same things kept happening all over again, and a couple of his boys were selling drugs. Sad to say they were headed towards jail or death and Rameck had began that way to.

 Rameck was getting caught up in the world around him, the gangsters way of life looking up to his friends because they seemed cool and he looked up to them. Rameck had no identity of his own he felt and had no sense of who he wanted to become. He randomly looked for men to be like. His Friends selling dope to a crack head is what once again lead them to trouble with the law, because they had ask the crack head not to smoke at their hangout spot and he walked away and went a few feet and did anyway and they approached the man and began to beat him and stomp him and Rameck who wanted to be like the boy pulls out a knife and the pressure lead him into stabbing the man were they would end up on attempted murder charges and his boys who already had charges said you’re the one who stabbed him if it wasn't for you we would not be charged for this crime and told him that they were not talking the fall for him. The same boys he destine to be like had betrayed him and left him to dry but however the case was dismissed and Rameck had had enough and began to hang more around Sam, and George once again straying from the trouble.

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George though that he and Sam and Rameck was drawn together for a purpose. Sam and George met in the seventh grade were they hit it off realizing they like they same things. They did their school work but insisted that they were not nerds.

They had a balance between school life and social life unlike the other kids at the school and that's why George liked Sam. They often learned together, and share stories about family's, and shared candy with one another, and talked about things that's was happening in their neighbor hoods with each other. They attended university high with one another that used to be named Malcolm X Shabazz High School that was later named university high. By end of seventh grade Sam and George had became very good friends, and hung out regularly during lunch. George also attended school with R&B singer Faith Evens, and they were close friends when he was at Spencer elementary, he liked her but, with her being so mature she looked at his as a little brother and showed no interest of a boy friend and she would tell him of her problems. George spent most of his time after school playing video game with his friend Shahid Jackson, and football in the apartment complexes were they lived they had two groups from the community. The good and the bad kids I would call it. The bad doing things that George and the good one wasn't willing to do like sell drugs drink beer and steal. But later found that Sam was having a difficult time staying clear of the bad boys doing thing they were doing at times. With Sam's engaging personality he attracted lots of friends were his loyalty was often tested, and had to fight to prove it. George was the quietest one of them all, the take me as I am or leave me type. He believed that protected him from the others. They didn't ever try to persuade him to do wrong and they didn't pick at him because of who he was. Sam and George graduated eighth grade with each other, but didn't become very close until his junior year. Rameck arrived the next year after eighth grade.

George also felt like Rameck, and no longer felt challenged in school because the work was much easier than seventh and eighth grade, and his academic performance started to slip away from him. George still made average grades but however he could have did better he states if he worked harder. Sam who had graduated number three in his eight grade class grades had began to look average also. Rameck who made A's and B's their freshman year grade also had dropped too. They all had begun to skip classes which were common practice among students at his school because they knew they could get away with it. Rameck was starting to hang back with his crew from Plainfield kids from his uncle neighborhood, and then later he became friends with Hasaan and Ahi, sons of acclaimed poet and human-rights activist Amiri Baraka. Rameck had still doing the things that the kids from plainfield were doing robing and beating up people for fun. Rameck was very smart he would Miss behave in class one minute and pass a test the next.

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In this chapter  Rameck , has issues with his mother. Rameck struggled to forgive his mother for the reason she had ended up a heroin addict. His father was a heroin addict also but he forgave his father, or didn't blame his father as he did his mom. His father spent most of his childhood in and out of jail for doing petty crimes. Rameck grandmother house is where he had a stable home and felt most secure at which was located in Newark.

Growing up in his grandmother neighborhood was a great thing at first until the white and high class people started to see the community as a low value neighborhood and the a lot of low class families start to move in a then the gangs and drugs was introduces to that community. At Rameck grandmother house they shared the house with his aunts and uncles from time to time because his grandmother never turns away family. So with them being a close family they spent a lot of time together and Rameck became the family entertainer were they laughed and joked and had a good time with each other.

 His mother work hard and did the best she could from time to time, they would move out and in of his grandmother’s house when things got hard for them leaving his with a unstable home to live in through trying time. This means Rameck bounced from school to school sometimes until third and fourth grade 'were he was consisting with one school. Despite his mother using drugs she still forced him to do well in school. Rameck often helped his teacher Ms. Hatti do work in her garden as way for him to earn a few bucks.

 Racmeck was then introduces to Private school, because his mom wanted him to succeed in life she though he would get a better education there, but little do she know that's what sparked the problems. Rameck started Miss-behaving in class because he was ahead of the class from things he learned at public schools. the teachers recommended special education for him miss behaving not knowing the reason he was doing it, his mother wasn't having that she knew he just wasn't being challenged. Rameck soon got a car and started to visit his grandmother often and stay there on breaks from college.

 Rameck received a lot of guidance from her where she would rant and rave about his miss behaving but she kind of understood why it was happening his mother and father a heroin user and in and out of jail his father they gave him nothing to be proud of.

 Rameck grandmother speeches lead him to see that trouble was around him in his friends, that were selling dope and robbing people and going to jail they were stressed from knowing they would die doing what they were doing but had no choice. He knew school was hard but it would pay off some day. George grew up across the street in the apartments were his grandmother live but George was on a good path earning B's for his grades a lading a scholarship to assumption college were there were a hand full of black students. Despite his father using drugs he too guided Rameck to steer the other way and not end up like he did and Rameck admired what his father told him.

 His mother started using drugs right after she had his sister, Mecca the stress of being a single mother got to her. Rameck was still angry at his mother, and showed her no pity of the thing she had been thorough that lead her on the road to heroin. His mother accused him of loving his father more than he loved her, but that was not the case he just looked up to her more and didn't know why she was lead to that road and didn't know if she love him or the drugs more. His mother pushed him to work she said it taught him responsibility's, he work to buy himself the name bran clothes that his mother wouldn't buy. Ramcek was still hanging with the boys in Plain field where he caught trains to every weekend. He was introduced to George and Sam at university high later.

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Sam talks about his role model that he had met and looked up to he was a martial-arts teacher named Reggie. Reggie was also a security guard also he was the type of person who made an honest living and was respected by some of the toughest guys in the community. Reggie was a highly trained black belt.

Reggie taught Sam and the guys in the class how to remove them from the environment through deep concentration why he delivered messages to them. The sessions made SAM feel mentally and physically strong; it was a way to keep Sam from roaming the streets.

Sam started to slip after he turn 15 and stray with guys 4 - 7 years older than him and hang out late they also drink 40 ounces malt liquor as they hung out. Sam stopped lessons with Reggie, and headed towards trouble with the boys.

 He still managed to make good grades, and felt the need to hide it from his boys and would lie about how he got good grades to them. Sam later attend university high in Newark that would give him better shot at college and make something of his life.

Discussing role models and the impact they have on you

The impact that my role models has had on me, is the ability to learn from their mistakes. They have taught me that in life you are going to go there some things but it’s not what you go through but how you response to what you go there in your life. Don’t stay down when someone kick you down get up and try it all over again if it is importing enough to get kicked down for. The key is to learn about the thing you go there so that you don't make the same mistakes again. Learn something every day, and learn from the people around you. my role models inspire me to push and strive for the goal i have set forth in my life no matter the things I go through my course on the road my change but the plans to get where I'm going is still the same and my role models have taught me that.

My Role Models

 Denzel Washington

This is one of my role models because who he is a person inspires me to  push my self so that  I can to be successful.

Tim Tebow

  A great role model because he pushes him self to preform despite the drama that is gonging on involving him and his playing style and his ability to preform as a quarter back.

 

Michael Vick  

Despite all the things he have been through going to jail and loosing all his money and home and cars and the trust of fans and family's. his ability to bounce back and strive to do good no matter that millions want to see him fell.

 

This is why this guy's are my role models of mines and their stories can compare to the stories of the guys that are in the Pact by the tree doctors.

Reading Summary

         All the odds were against them. Rameck and Sam both spent some time in jail as teenagers. Their school, although good, was not up to the standards of most white high schools. They had to take some remedial classes the summer after they graduated high school before they could start college classes in the fall. Not all the school finance programs came through. They had to leave their neighborhood and live near campus. They had to buy books. And they had to study no matter how easy or difficult a class. There were the normal life crises that happen within their families and to themselves. They were subject to racial profiling. Yet the three lived together when they could (dental school and medical school were on different campuses) and constantly helped and challenged each other. In May, 1999, they all graduated from the same university with their respective medical degrees.
These three doctors took it further. Their residencies were all there in the same area close to where they had grown up. They have stayed there. Sam, as an emergency room doctor, often sees friends and family members come in. He sees many people from the neighborhood come in with the same troubles he was able to shake off. Rameck and George are also there, treating people who don't have enough, making a difference. When they graduated, they gained some fame and notoriety for their accomplishment. With the gifts they received and the encouragement they now spread to others in their life situation, they have started a foundation to help other young adults with the support they needed and gave each other.

Personal response to the reading

This book connects with my life because, when I was a child my mom was a single mother with three kids and I was the youngest just like in the dentist case in this book. We often struggled to make from day to day like Rameck. When I was old enough I went out and got a job to afford the designer clothes that my mom wouldn't buy for me. I often wonder as I read if they hadn't made the pact where would they be at in this point in their lives now. This is importance because its shows that they didn't have it good in their childhood like a lot of kids today but they made something of their self's and became doctors. I don't understand why his stepfather left his mom what’s was the cause of them splitting is the big question. I want to remember this book because it sounds allot like my childhood grown up and me succeeding in my life right now. The quote from the book that I will response on is as soon as my mother, my brother, and I moved to the projects in a building on Muhammad Ali Ave; my mother started working hard to get us out. This is what a mom is suppose to do she didn't want her kids around the negative things that's was going on in the neighborhood so she starting working long hours so that she could move to a better place for her kids she was determined to succeed for her kids.

Summary of the week’s reading

George, Sam, and Rameck grew up in poor homes in New Jersey neighborhoods where kids don't have a chance. Unless they are motivated that is! During high school, these men learned of a program for minority students interested in becoming doctors. That day their lives changed and gave them a since of hope. George, Sam, and Rameck made a promise to each other to finish college and become doctors no matter what, and they did. One is a dentist, two are doctors, and they could not have done it without the friendship and inspiration of one another. The “Pact” these men made in high school acted as a positive force to steer them away from the problems, and dangers of the streets they played on as boys and sent them into the medical world to help their communities as men. Reading about growing up in the hood and finding a way out, and a way to give back as well is what I get from the intro of The Pact.

Personal definition of success with real life examples

My personal definition of success is, one who is determined to go above and beyond their overall comfort to the thing necessary to make it in life. Doing what he/she sets out to do in life, reaching the goals he/she sets for them self’s. It also is the act of succeeding. For example, I set goals in my life to make it to the point where I want to be, like having a good job that I can work and be happy with and take care of my family. Another example, is when I sets goal I do everything in my power to reach them but when I reach them don't stop keep going beyond those goals set.

Personal introduction and purpose

       This blog was created to give my opinion on the book called The Pact, this is my interpretation and overall perceptions of the book and is only a opinion of mine. Please feel free to respond to what I have writing and argue the right or wrong of what is being said about this book.