Benjamin Shoemaker:  

Benjamin is from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Benjamin's schools include Tri-unity Christian School. Benjamin later attended Calvin College (Triple Major with Honors: International Relations, Psychology, and Spanish) . Music Benjamin likes includes Joshua Radin, Tyler Howe Music, 2Cellos (Sulic & Hauser). Books Benjamin likes include A Thousand Splendid Suns, Boundaries, On Paradise Drive. Movies Benjamin likes include Good Will Hunting, Inside Job, Mugabe and the White African. One of Benjamin's favorite quotes is:""I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stifled. I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any." Mahatma Ghandi "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." Bishop Desmond Tutu “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” Mark Twain "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." Tim Notke “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” Robert Frost “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” St. Augustine In consiliis nostris, fatum nostrum est. "He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail." Abraham Maslow "The chief c...Expand for more