The Pact

During my senior year, my Nursing Fundamentals teacher introduced me and my class to a book called, The Pact. She informed us that the book could really impact our outlook on our futures and maybe our careers. She was exactly right, at least in my case. The Pact, is written by three best friends who made a pact at seventeen years old and promised each other they would go to college, graduate and become doctors. These three men did entirely just that, and remain friends till today. Dr. Sampson Davis, Dr. George Jenkins, and Dr. Rameck Hunt surpassed the “streets” as they refer to being the hard life of poor black teenage boys in their neighborhoods. George became a dentist. He first became inspired when he had to get braces at the age of eleven.…

is an inspiring book about three young men rising from the streets and fulfilling a dream to become doctors. Their experiences and emotions educate teachers about the daily struggles students face, while also helping teachers comprehend Standards Two and Three of the New Jersey Professional Standards for Teachers. This is especially true when considering the three young men’s assets and liabilities that contributed to their learning, such as such as their individual experiences, family, and…

The integration of West Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) petrified the Soviet Union and caused them to create their own military and economic alliance known as the Warsaw Pact. Even though it was initially referred to as a Treaty on Friendship, the Soviets became increasingly authoritative in regard to the actions of their so called allies and provided these nations with the impetus to withdraw from the Pact. Two countries that felt the sting of Russian authoritarianism…

Introduction The North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact were two defining features of the Cold War, formed early in the period and lasting the entire duration of the Cold War. Both treaties were initially formed with the predominant idea of mutual protection, as evidenced in NATO’s Washington Treaty article five, and the Warsaw Pact’s Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance’s similar article four. These two articles both state that an attack on one of the member…

I was now playing on a select team and also on a premier club team. I was feeling great. During my eighth grade school soccer season, I was the top scorer for my team and I had high hopes of making Varsity soccer as an entering freshman. Two weeks prior to the start of soccer season, I broke my ankle playing indoor soccer. I was overcome with more disappointment than imaginable. I felt like the one thing I had worked so hard to accomplish was once again taken away. Similar with The Pact when Sam…

Prior to this, Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk were enemies: “One morning in late July, while we were out on patrol near LZ Gator, Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen got into a fistfight. It was about something stupid - a missing jackknife - but even so the fight was vicious” (59). Eventually they make up and slowly begin to trust each other. Gradually Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk become good friends, and they make a pact that if one of them got a “wheelchair wound” the other would kill him (62). Later, Lee…

The story begins with the two ruffians getting into a fistfight over a stolen jackknife. Lee gets his nose busted by the unforgiving fist of Dave. Strunk gets airlifted to nurse his poor, defeated nose. Dave carries around the guilt of the obliteration of facial cartilage belonging to Lee Strunk. When Lee came back, the two were acting very alert toward one another. Dave’s empathy got the better of him, as he went up to Lee with a pistol and broke his own nose . After that very odd episode, they…

pieces that don’t fit.” During World War II the German leader Adolf Hitler tried creating a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, which Hitler found not a true ally or enemy. However, Hitler strongly disliked communist and the Soviet Union believes in communism. Adolf Hitler set his hate aside towards the communist and tied to build a better relationship. While the deceptive motives of the Nonaggression Pact provided peace between Germany and the Soviet Union, it led to the start of World…

In a story called The Pact, written by three doctors named Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins, the story describes the struggles and experience they went through to become doctors. Explained each of their point of views on important moments that happened starting from their teen years in highschool and further goes on till when they are in college becoming doctors. Displays the struggles they each had to go through within their community as well as in school to become successful…

Making Big Dreams Real Together “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them” -Walter E. Disney. With the book I am reading in class called, “The Pact”, is about friends forming a pact together and struggling in the ghetto of New Jersey to fulfill their dreams to become doctors. In “The Pact” there are George, Sam, and Rameck achieving dreams with the power of friendship. I find the book worth reading because I can relate to parts of the characters life. The pact formed…