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Milton Hershey: A Chocolate Wonder

//**One day, in Mrs.Kenkel's class,she gave us a new assignment,"You all are going to make a speech about someone who has touched many lives."So, after school, I was thinking about who I was going to do it on while nibblin' on a Hershey bar.Then, a baseball hit me in the ribs.But then,with all of my Hershey bar everywhere, it dawned on me. Why not do it on Something Hershey. (I didn't know his first name at the time.) And, after finger aches, hang nails, and blood shot eyes from all the hours of typing, I eventually came up with this...**//

When Milton was young, he didn't go to school. Instead, he helped his father care for his baby sister,Serena. Even though, back then he loved candy.[who didn't?] But he didn't like chocolate much. He liked sour balls A LOT more.They're like jaw breakers mixed with sour heads.

On weekends,his family went to sell produce at a local market. Sometimes, his father would give him a penny. If so,he would go over to his cousins' stand. His 2 cousins and he would go to Felix's candy shop. He would mainly buy sour balls. Then,he would always share them with his cousins. 1 penny would buy enough candy for all of them, all day. When Milton got back to his house, like I said earlier, he mainly did chores. He rarely got a book to read.

When he was around 13, he worked for a newspaper. In the 1800's, when you got a job, you would normally move in with your employer. So, Milton moved in. But it didn't last long. He accidentally dropped a straw hat into the newspaper maker. This made the employer furious! He was soon fired. Then, he was hired by a taffy and candy store. He really liked this job. He mainly made taffy. As he continued with this job, he started to do other jobs, like tending to people's horses while they were buying candy. Eventually, he quit and started his own candy shop. He wasn't very successful. I guess they didn't like his candy. **H**e was old enough to move out, so he moved to Denver and started another candy shop. It wasn't successful, either. I don't know if it was a bad location or something...oh well. So he ended up doing this cycle of moving, starting a candy shop, and the shop going bankrupt, at least a couple of times. His latest one was when he was in New York City. There, he learned how to make delicious caramels. But, I guess NYC didn't like caramels. Again. Oh well.

He moved back to central Pennsylvania and, again, started a candy shop. Selling his caramels was apparently a good idea, because he didn't go bankrupt. In fact, it went the other way! He started to expand, and eventually, came up with a caramel company, shipping caramels all over the U.S. and Europe. Soon, he became fascinated with chocolate. After years of research, he came up with a perfect milk chocolate recipe. Originally, he made the recipe for chocolate covers for his caramels. But, eventually, the chocolate's popularity sky-rocketed above the caramels' popularity. After awhile, he sold his carmel company. for $1,000,000! He made a small town for his workers and their families, which was soon named after him. It's in Pennslyvania. He wanted to build lots of schools (which he did.) because he wanted to give kids a chance at education, because he didn't get that chance.

All above else, he mainly touched his workers' lives by giving them jobs and places to live. He gave his workers' kids an education, and he touched the lives of anyone living in Hershey, Pennslyvania and working at his company by giving them homes. He gave those Hershey's chocolate fans the smooth, scrumptious chocolate that is the Hershey bar. When you have a product like the Hershey bar, I guess it's easy to touch people's lives in a fattening, yet delicious way!