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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The Three Doctors Foundation mission is to inspire and motivate youth through education, to achieve leadership and career success in their community through the formation of positive peer and mentor relationships. The Three Doctors Foundation stands on the premise that “Our Children Can Not Aspire To Be What They Can Not See”.
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Our vision is to serve as a positive model for inner city youth and families across the nation. We will utilize our experience, status and programs as platforms to encourage community development, volunteerism and leadership.
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We are passionate about touching the lives of inner city community members so that they become empowered and act as change agents to improve the quality of life for themselves and others. We are committed to promoting respect, diversity and life balance within these communities, acting as role models and advocates for the underprivileged.
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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.