From the rice fields of Guyana to a Brevard County bench
By Jan Pudlow Senior Editor. The Florida Bar News
Link to story: http://www.floridabar.org/DIVCOM/JN/jnnews01.nsf/8c9f13012b96736985256aa900624829/76dcbcd426c127e285257aad004b7c79!OpenDocument
Judge Majeed
Relegated to ride the steamer in the lower deck with livestock and poor people of Guyana, cow dung splattered on his beautiful mother’s orhni headdress.
While his mother took the indignity in stride, A.B. Majeed describes an anger that “burnt in me.”
Majeed was only 10 years old on that trip from Anna Regina to visit an uncle who lived on an island in the Essequibo River. Peeking up the stairs, he saw the nice, polished seats reserved for the upper class.
Tugging at his mother’s hand, Majeed asked why they couldn’t sit in the empty seats upstairs, rather than squatting with the cows and sheep down below.
“I understood then and there that I wanted to be in first class, and the only way to do it was to get an education,” Majeed said. “That was the birth of my quest.”
The lottery of life – Where to be born in 2013
The lottery of life – Where to be born in 2013
Nov 21st 2012 | from The World In 2013 – The Economist
To answer this, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister company of The Economist, has this time turned deadly serious. It earnestly attempts to measure which country will provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years ahead. [ read article]
Rankings: The Where to be Born Index – 2013 vs Where to be born in 1988
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