My pact

This post is the hardest one for me. Many will write about something like finishing school or doing better in school, but i already planned to do that. My pact wil be this, I will better my self  mentally, and spiritually. I will try and help those around me to better themseleves while also bettering myself, I plan to not only focus on what is really important to me but the improtant things to my family and friends, because if I just decided on bettering myself then I wouldn't have gotten the reason behind "The Pact". What I got from that book was that while pushing yourself to get to a better place you should also try and help your fellow man, like how the three doctors wanted to help younger people get to where they are. My pact is one of better the world and my fellow man.

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The authors of "The Pact" have two more books out and one is a childrens book, called "We Bet The Streets". It seems to be geared to younger people in middle school that seems to give advice to help kids today wanna do better in school and show that there is always a better future for anyone as long as they work for it. For those who loved "The Pact" and found inspiration from it I say get your kids this book, it may just push them to be something like a doctor.


In the Authors thrid book called "The Bond" we read about the three doctors examining their childhood and their fatherlessness. Something I wanted to read in "The Pact" was how they felt on a deeper level. I don't know about the whole fatherlessness because my father and I were close, but to hear how these three doctors who worked their way up from the hood and became doctors feel about their fathers or if they meet them would be a great read. It can also be a inspiration to many people who didn't know their fathers and lead them to change their lives. I for one will be reading this book and ask that other read it too, because these books can change a person's life with how a person can see these men's hardships and achievements.

My recommendation

I recommend that others read "The Pact" for so many reasons, it is such a good read and it will help you see the world in a new light. I strated this book with the thought that it would be boring, but I was wrong. Hell I couldn't have been futher from the truth, this book has people struggling to better them self and fighting to make a better future. That right there will make you also wanna better yourself once you read it. There were so many time I wanted to just stop and drop out of college, but then I started reading this book and I saw how guys worse off than me fought to get to where they are and how they went through medical school, one of the toughest schools you can try and get into. That right there made me not want to give up. If you are of the black community then this book can really talk to you, but for the other races that shouldn't stop you from reading this and being inspired. I like this book so much that I am going to look up the other books these guys have wrote and read them too, I may even write a blog about them.

THE PACT, reflect on your reading and blogging experience.

When I startedreading this book I thought that it would be boring and that I would have to struggle to read it,but i was wrong. "The Pact" is a book that I am glad I read, it has shown me a lot of what people go through and can do with the support of friends and family. Well reading the book I saw that  many of the things these guys went through were like events in my life. That connection made me wanna read the whole book and tell others about it. When I started on this blog I was excited, because I have always wanted to blog about something. While blogging I expressed how great this book is and why many should read it, sure there were times when I felt like I didn't wanna do some of it, but I would read the book and then have so much to say. I even felt that I had found the best theme for it and was really excited for other who read the book and blogged about it to see that video. I feel that reading this book and blogging about it was a great assignment and has encourged me to blog about other things in my free time.

History of rap.

There is much speculation of rap music, man see it as a bad influence on the younger generation and others see it as a link to our past and a way outta the hood. Rap has its roots in Africa due to the rhythmic ways tribes use to use drums, and the genre can to America fron the Caribbean islands. rap is a musical culture that changes but always stays the same at it's roots, in the way it inspires those that listen to it. Rap is called the "food for the soul" as many would call it, and to me that describtion is so right. good rap when listen to can touch you in many ways and it feels like the person doing the rap know you or has being walking in your shoes. Rap start out as a result of pain, miseries, and frustration suffered by the people, and Africans and African-Americans have been wronged through time. That suffering gave brith to rap, because people needed a way to express that pain and rap was that way. Many may see rap today as a infulence to violence and drug use but that is just like 5% of it,most rap is about expression of a hard time and people's hard times these days invlove drugs and such. I may self love rap and see it as a way to get your anger or sadness out and hope that those who read this article can get that.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/history-of-rap-music.html

Theme for this story LOL I got the best one.

Baby Cham - Ghetto Story (Feat. Alicia Keys) (Video)

This song is about the streets and getting outta there and making a life, but also going back and trying to make the streets better. I feel this is the perfect song for the pact, LOL sure they aren't sing about being doctors but they are singing about never giving into the hardship and making a better life for themself. I hope you reading this listen to the song and if you have read The Pact then you may see how close this song is to the book.

So please go to Youtube and view this song/video

 

Quote I liked.

The quote I like was from chapter 11 when George and Rameck were talking about being rappers and George told Rameck that "One day they're big and hot with the biggest studio, and next day they're not. Man, you're on your way to medical school. You want to drop medical school for this? I'm on my way to dental school. I'm not dropping dental school for this. You're crazy" When I read this I thought about all those kids who dream big about being a rapper or singer and quit school when they get the smallest of chances to do what thet dream of. Not thinking of their education, and then after a year or two they are outta luck and have nothing to fall back on. I am not saying people shouldn't dream of being rappers or singers, I am saying that they shouldn't have to give up on education to follow that dream. Hell they could do home schooling while on tour or something, but not many think that way and then when signing contracts or having acountants deal with their money, many artist get robbed and cheated. Making many wish they had gotten their education, George knew this and foucsed on his education frist something that was really smart to me.