Dr. Ben Carson Research Paper
Coming
Into
My
Own
By
Maurice
E.
Williams
Jr.
September 9, 2012
I’ve learnt that Dr. Benjamin Carson was born on this month September 18, 1951, in Detroit, Michigan. Raised by a single mother Sonya who had dropped out of school in the third grade, and got married at the age of 13. She was working two maybe even three jobs at a time to support Carson and his brother Curtis. Benjamin Carson was at the bottom of his fifth grade class where he got the nickname “dummy”, and developed a violent uncontrollable temper. Once Sonya saw that Carson and his brother were falling behind in school, she began to limit the television watching and refuse to let them play outside until their homework was done. Also she made them read two books from the library a week and they had to give her written reports on each book. …show more content…
Within a year, after Carson mother cracked down on him and his brother about school Ben was at the top of his class. Graduating from his high school with honors, Ben attended Yale University, where he earned a degree in Psychology. Dr. Carson interest changed to neurosurgery when he went to the medical school of the University of Michigan. At the age of 32, Dr. Ben Carson became Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery. With the operation to separate a pair of Siamese twins, who were born joined at the back of the head in 1987 Carson made history. Dr. Ben was the first intra-uterine procedure to relieve pressure on the brain of a hydrocephalic fetal twin, and a
Into
My
Own
By
Maurice
E.
Williams
Jr.
September 9, 2012
I’ve learnt that Dr. Benjamin Carson was born on this month September 18, 1951, in Detroit, Michigan. Raised by a single mother Sonya who had dropped out of school in the third grade, and got married at the age of 13. She was working two maybe even three jobs at a time to support Carson and his brother Curtis. Benjamin Carson was at the bottom of his fifth grade class where he got the nickname “dummy”, and developed a violent uncontrollable temper. Once Sonya saw that Carson and his brother were falling behind in school, she began to limit the television watching and refuse to let them play outside until their homework was done. Also she made them read two books from the library a week and they had to give her written reports on each book. …show more content…
Within a year, after Carson mother cracked down on him and his brother about school Ben was at the top of his class. Graduating from his high school with honors, Ben attended Yale University, where he earned a degree in Psychology. Dr. Carson interest changed to neurosurgery when he went to the medical school of the University of Michigan. At the age of 32, Dr. Ben Carson became Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery. With the operation to separate a pair of Siamese twins, who were born joined at the back of the head in 1987 Carson made history. Dr. Ben was the first intra-uterine procedure to relieve pressure on the brain of a hydrocephalic fetal twin, and a