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Ben Carson's Do It Better

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The essay, “Do It Better” by Ben Carson appears in Sentence Skills with Reading (2014). The story is about a boy named Benjamin who struggles in school.
Carson claims that when he was little what caused him to be successful was what he had experienced when he was younger. It all started when Benjamin moved back from Boston to Detroit he attended his first school at Higgins elementary school were he attended fifth grade. He was a student that struggled with school. Benjamin believed he was not smart and did not like school. He had a bad start in his fifth-grade class his self image as dumbest kid in class affect his schoolwork because he believed it. The belief that he was dumb caused him to hate school for that very reason. What made school

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