And in "Gifted Hands," Ben Carson thinks he's not smart enough because at first, he didn't know his learning style, and once he realized his strength in reading, his schooling changed for the better especially at Yale. ... "Gifted Hands" depicts the story of Ben Carson as he struggled in school at first because he was unable to earn good grades. ... And like Ben Carson in "Gifted Hands," he learned to value his strength in reading books rather than attending lectures. ...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

My glasses, gifted from my grandma cracked. ... I opened the door and I was more nervous than I had ever been as I saw my dad watching the football game with not a care in the world with a beer in his left hand and the remote control on the other, I looked at him and saw things I hadnt noticed before such as how his eyes where black like he hadnt been getting sleep. ...

• Word Count: 990
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The relationship between mothers and daughters is awesome in so many ways and could never be duplicated. It can, however be fictionalized as in the novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells. Wells takes her readers through a journey of joy, sorrow, pain, and happiness between a w...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Connie on the other hand, is merely a vain nave sixteen-year-old girl growing up in the 1960's. ... Tiresias is well known to the people of Thebes as "god's prophet- (1262) and is "gifted with the truth as no one else- (1264). ... Eventually he does go blind by his own hands. ... She "put out her hand against the screen, (she) push(ed) the door slowly open- (481) and ultimately left with Arnold Friend just as he had predicted. ...

• Word Count: 2789
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School