Analysis Of Make The Impossible Possible

Bill Strickland spends his days helping people through Manchester Bidwell. He founded job training programs and also a community arts program to help and mentor young people. When Bill Strickland was younger he did not have the tools and everything he gives to the kids now for mentoring. Strickland’s life changed when he found pottery. It was something he was good at from the start. Bill grew up in Pittsburgh, and it was not the prettiest. People were losing their jobs and the town was falling apart. Strickland’s mother shaped him to be a successful man. She did not let him “fall into the ghettos trapdoor”. Strickland spends his life trying to fix the substandard neighborhood that he grew up in. Everything Bill Strickland has done in his

Reading this book has given me more motivation to be successful in life. I can compare Bill Strickland and my life to some extent. Bill grew up in the ghetto, in Pittsburgh. Strickland’s town was falling apart and going downhill, but his mother made sure not to let her children be taken by the ghetto. Although the town was not beautiful in the outside, Bills mother always made sure her house and children were clean and up to shape. While Strickland was in High School, he met Frank Ross. Not only zdid Ross become his pottery teacher but he also became his mentor in life. Because of Bills encounter with Frank, he has now changed the lives of

The programs at Manchester Bidwell have now seen a 90% of kids at attend there graduate from high school. The children and teens that also attend there have a better rate at attending schools, improved behavior, and also started receiving higher grades. Having all of the mentors and teachers at Manchester Bidwell was able to educate and change the lives of thousands of kids. Everyone there works together to help turn around the lives of kids in need. Reading this book has gave me even more motivation to complete all of my goals in life. Bill Strickland never gave up on his dream and never let anything come in his way and stop him from completing his dream. No matter how hard is life was or if he had any obstacles in his way he still managed to be very successful in life. Bill has gone through some hard times while he was living in the ghetto at a young age, but after all the chaos he has dealt with he has become a very successful man and helped the lives of