Colin Powell It Worked For Me Summary

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From living in a lower class family (in Harlem) to becoming a four-star General. In this article, we will discuss Colin Powell’s autobiography (It Worked for Me:
In Life and Leadership) and his biography (Colin Powell: Military Leader by: Warren Brown) Colin Powell’s autobiography (It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership) compared to his article 2 (Colin Powell: Military Leader by Warren Brown) depicted less of his life. In article 1 (It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell) he said “I worked hard,” “every morning I left early for the garment district in Manhattan,” “all my relatives were for hard workers.” this shows how he had the mentality to be in the Army from a young age. Later in the article 1, colon stated “I worked at Sickser’s for a couple of years” when he was let go; Colin said later “I always treasure him for caring enough about me to say so.” colon was accepting of the fact that he was fired, but still prevailed and he didn't let his selfishness get in the way of him being friends and helping out at Sickser’s. Sister job was as a porter, at the Pepsi Plant but Colin was promoted to the …show more content…

ing machine, an integrated a bottling crew; he would later use his leadership and every day of his life (in the military.) I find that article 1 is similar to Article 2 the sense of it is both about Colin Powell, and both cover major events