It is 1993; and Cedric Jennings is a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou; a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods; where the dropout rate is well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1;350 boast an average of B or better. At Ballou; Cedric has almost no friends. He eats lunch in a classroom most days; plowing through the extra work he has asked for; knowing that he’s really competing with kids from other; harder schools. Cedric Jennings’s driving ambition–which is fully supported by his forceful mother–is to attend a top-flight college.In September 1995; after years of near superhuman dedication; he realizes that ambition when he begins as a freshman at Brown University. In this updated edition; A Hope in the Unseen chronicles Cedric’s odyssey during his last two years of high school; follows him through his difficult first year at Brown; and now tells the story of his subsequent successes in college and the world of work.
#4094216 in Books Hunter Shireen T 2008-10-24 2009-06-23Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .78 x 6.00l; 1.05 #File Name: 0765622394322 pagesReformist Voices of Islam Mediating Islam and Modernity
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