The Peanut Man Have you ever used peanut soap or peanut shaving cream? Or perhaps you’ve used peanut lotion. Though these inventions may sound absurd and wacky, they are some of the many things that George Washington Carver made using peanuts. Throughout his lifetime, George Washington Carver discovered about 300 new uses for the peanut and ultimately changed the way we think about agriculture today. He was a botanist, an innovator, an educator, but most importantly, he was an inspiration. Without George Washington Carver, America wouldn’t be the way it is today! Though George Washington Carver’s birthday is unknown, historians believe that it was around 1864 in Diamond Grove, Missouri. He was born to Mary and Giles whom were both slaves
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George grew up in a time where he didn’t have as many rights and people looked down upon him simple because of the color of his skin. Despite this, he was still able to pursue his dream of being an agriculturalist and was able to pass his knowledge to people of all races. He changed the way we farm today and helped America in a time of need. Just to know that he started out as a slave and ended up as one of the most famous African Americans of all time is truly phenomenal and proves that as long as you work hard you can accomplish anything. Also the fact that he’s such an innovative person, makes him one of my role models because in the future I aspire to be an engineer and I hope that through my job I will be able to help people. Lastly, I believe that George Washington Carver pushed for racial harmony. Like I said previously, he lived in the time of segregation but despite this he was still able to become friends with white people and showed the world that no matter what race you are you can accomplish anything. Throughout this dark age in American history he was able to stay positive and work past racism. Though it was very indirect, I do believe that George Washington Carver was pushing for racial harmony. Racial harmony is something we are still pushing for to this day and is something that is being threatened as of new laws/regulations in 2017. So it’s truly influential/inspiring to see that George Washington Carver was able to break racial boundaries back than and push for racial harmony in such a horrendous time and really makes alert of things that we can do to this day to once again break racial
George grew up in a time where he didn’t have as many rights and people looked down upon him simple because of the color of his skin. Despite this, he was still able to pursue his dream of being an agriculturalist and was able to pass his knowledge to people of all races. He changed the way we farm today and helped America in a time of need. Just to know that he started out as a slave and ended up as one of the most famous African Americans of all time is truly phenomenal and proves that as long as you work hard you can accomplish anything. Also the fact that he’s such an innovative person, makes him one of my role models because in the future I aspire to be an engineer and I hope that through my job I will be able to help people. Lastly, I believe that George Washington Carver pushed for racial harmony. Like I said previously, he lived in the time of segregation but despite this he was still able to become friends with white people and showed the world that no matter what race you are you can accomplish anything. Throughout this dark age in American history he was able to stay positive and work past racism. Though it was very indirect, I do believe that George Washington Carver was pushing for racial harmony. Racial harmony is something we are still pushing for to this day and is something that is being threatened as of new laws/regulations in 2017. So it’s truly influential/inspiring to see that George Washington Carver was able to break racial boundaries back than and push for racial harmony in such a horrendous time and really makes alert of things that we can do to this day to once again break racial