you choose,You have legs and arms and a brain to use,And the man who has risen great deeds to doBegan his life with no more than you.You are the handicap you must face,You are the one who must choose you place,You must say where you want to go,How much you will study the truth to know.God has equipped you for life, but HeLets you decide what you want to be.Courage must come from the soul within,The man must furnish the will to win.So figure it out for yourself, my lad.You were born with all that the great have had,With your equipment they all began,Get hold of yourself and say: “I can.”--Edgar A. Guest”(http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/poem_eqt.htm)He had lots of hobbies that he liked to do whenever he could. His work, for one, is something that he loved to do. One of his favorite hobbies was cross-pollination of a hybrid amaryllis that he had, himself, created. One of the only pictures of him and the last one ever taken of him, was of him working on his amaryllis.(http://www.npf.si.edu/exh/harmon/carvharm.htm) He also liked to help people. In the South, he helped farmers to know of crop diversifying and rotation, instead of the soil-exhausting of only planting cotton. Because of this, he became known in the South as the “miracle worker.”George Washington was a very incredible man who was able to come from a slave all the way to one of the most well known black people of his time. I hope I have answered the question “What was his personal life like?” good in here and would like to summarize by saying that he was able to overcome all odds to become a famous inventor that even had a movie made by him. I would also like to say that He made many, many products that we still use all from simple plants like peanuts in summary to the answer of the question “What did he actually do?”. He also had many hobbies that ended up in helping many people (“What did he like to do when he ...
