Student Success Statement 

"I trust that my hard work will pay off." 

Tyler Hawks

Reflection: Tyler didn't posses natural talent for basketball but he did posses motivation. You have to believe in the hard work you put into something. What people are lacking is motivation, the lack of motivation is present because they have no goals. How are you suppose to strive, if you have nothing to strive for? People don't just wake up one day and become a successful person, it's something you have to work for, it takes time. But that time you put into that goal you're focusing on pays off.The more time you put into something, the closer you are into accomplishing it. 

Ben Carson 

-Born in the slums of Detriot, in deep povery   

  

-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 student in his grade school class 

- Ben becomes top student in his school 

-Ben becomes a world renowned doctor

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: This is really inspiring. He went from having nothing, no education, no knowledge, no stable home, and poverty, to a very successful man that worked hard to help people. 

But he has his mother to thank. She was a hardworker too, doing what she could to make her two sons happy. She wanted them to be filled with knowledge about the world and made reading maditory for them. And all of that made him the man he is today.