The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream - Softcover

Davis, Sampson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132393492 ISBN 13: 9780132393492

Verlag: Pearson, 2006

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For courses in Student Success, First Year Experience, and University Seminar.

 

This is a story about the power of friendship.  Of joining forces and beating the odds.  A story about changing your life, and the lives of those you love the most...together.  Chosen by Essence to be among the forty most influential African Americans, the author team of 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.

 

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George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Sampson Davis grew up together in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Seton Hall University.  Davis and Hunt received their medical degrees from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and Jenkins his dentistry degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.  All three are recipients of the Essence Lifetime Achievement Award.  Together they created the Three Doctors Foundation, which offers a yearly scholarship to a promising Newark student entering a four-year college.  They all continue to live in Newark. 

 

They are always looking for incredible stories of triumph.  Please write them at www.threedoctors.com and share your story.

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Chosen by Essence to be among the forty most influential African Americans, 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.  Of joining forces and beating the odds.  A story about changing your life, and the lives of those you love the most...together.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pearson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0132393492
• ISBN 13: 9780132393492
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italien