PART A: Which of the following best identifies the central idea of this article? B. Davis overcame the influence of a tremendously negative environment to achieve great success and intends to use his training to better the community in which he grew up.
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PART B: Which phrase from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
A.
“’Growing up, I was surrounded by so much negative peer pressure and negativity, it wasn’t long before I became a part of that fabric.’” ( Paragraph 4)
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“'[I] committed an armed robbery when I was 17 1/2. And I often say 17 1/2 because had I been 18, my story would have been written differently.’” ( Paragraph 5)
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“’There has to be more programs that exist... to help the students matriculate through high school, through college, through medical school.’” ( Paragraph 8)
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“’And I think that’s a crime in itself You have to have some social consciousness to give back, to be a part of making it better tomorrow.’” ( Paragraph 9)

1. PART A: B.  Davis overcame the influence of a tremendously negative environment to achieve great success and intends to use his training to better the community in which he grew up.

2. PART B: A. ’Growing up, I was surrounded by so much negative peer pressure and negativity, it wasn’t long before I became a part of that fabric.’” ( Paragraph 4)

3. A. It illustrates how many people from underserved communities go down a negative path and it makes Davis’s ascent all the more remarkable by comparison.

4. C. To inform and inspire people by sharing the narrative of a hard-working, compassionate person who prevailed over alarming circumstances to realize great success.

5. Davis described the relationship between growing up in Newark and returning to the city as a physician as how education can make a difference in the lives of young people, as evidenced by the lines: “My calling was a bit different. It was important for me to come back and become a beacon of hope, if  you will, to show young people, especially, that education can change a life. It changed my life, and it  saved my life in so many ways.”

Explanation:

Healing ‘Brick City’: A Newark Doctor Returns  Home describes the journey of Dr. Sampson Davis, an African-American man who grew up in Newark, New Jersey, a notoriously high-crime city, and how he went on to become a  physician and healthcare reform activist.

Davis pointed out youth can overcome peer pressure and the influence of growing up in a notoriously negative environment to succeed in life through the power of education.

Explanation:

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