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Ben Carson

In 1951, Benjamin Carson was born to Sonya and Robert Carson. He grew up in Detroit, Michigan. Six years later in 1959, Ben's parents divorced and he, his brother Curtis, and his mother moved to Boston, Massachusetts. They lived there for two years and moved back to Detroit in 1961. wasn't always the "smart guy". In fact for a long time he did poorly in school. It wasn't until after Ben failed his eye test in fifth grade that his grades changed. He had very poor eyesight, which was restricting his learning. After Ben began to wear glasses, he gradually began to do better in school. With his mother's help he became the smartest boy in his class. Even though Ben grew smarter, he had ...

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to not let it ever control him again. The change in Ben's attitude only led to better thing for him. Later in high school he joined the ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) program. He did so well in ROTC that Ben was offered a full scholarship to the United States Military Academy. In 1968, received a scholarship to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and accepted. Two years later Ben met Lacena "Candy" Rustin, who was a freshman at Yale. In 1975, Candy graduated from Yale and Ben who was already enrolled in medical school at the University of Michigan got married. Carson graduated from medical school in 1978 and went on to do his residency at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He had been one of only two interns accepted in neurosurgery. One year later in 1983 Carson and his wife Candy moved to Australia. Later that year they had a son named Murray. In 1984 moved back to Maryland and would become chief pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins. A ...

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Added: 4/17/2004 09:42:12 PM
Category: Biographies
Type: Free Paper
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