4/18/13
“Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story”
“Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story” is such an incredible
film. This movie is about a young boy named Ben who started from nothing and
became a renowned brain surgeon. In the film, Ben’s mother was the help to
different white households in the area. After Ben came home asking his mother
for help on an assignment and she was unable to read it due to her lack of an
education, she began to take lessons from the man whose house she was cleaning.
She then required her two boys to read a book each week and write a report on
it instead of watching television after school. Ben’s love for knowledge grew
stronger and stronger as he became the top in his class and then off to medical
school. He graduated and became a brain surgeon and performed a procedure never
done before in history successfully. He separated conjoined twins that were
connected at the head. I love this movie, because it shows the potential every
person has if they try. I admire Ben’s mother requiring him to read each week.
In our time, it is important to have our kids read in their free time, but what
I have noticed as a summer nanny is modern day children’s lack of exercise.
Technology has been a major stepping-stone into good directions, as well as
bad. The kids I watched last summer never wanted to play outside. They wanted
to play video games and watch television shows. They could work a MacBook Pro,
but they didn’t know what four square was. Our society has enabled our children
to find more fun in electronics than in outside activities I enjoyed when I was
a kid. It is important to balance our younger generations ability to learn and
stay active.
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