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    The Inspiring Life Story of KFC's Colonel Sanders: Henryville, IN

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    Colonel Harland Sanders founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) after facing many failures and rejections throughout his life. He dropped out of school at a young age and worked various jobs, getting fired from many of them. At age 40, he began selling fried chicken from his gas station, but faced further setbacks like a restaurant fire. Following the war, his chicken recipe was rejected over 1,000 times by franchises before finally being accepted. However, he persisted and grew KFC into a massive global brand, with over 6,000 locations at the time of his death at age 90.

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    Colonel Harland Sanders founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) after facing many failures and rejections throughout his life. He dropped out of school at a young age and worked various jobs, getting fired from many of them. At age 40, he began selling fried chicken from his gas station, but faced further setbacks like a restaurant fire. Following the war, his chicken recipe was rejected over 1,000 times by franchises before finally being accepted. However, he persisted and grew KFC into a massive global brand, with over 6,000 locations at the time of his death at age 90.

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    Colonel Harland Sanders founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) after facing many failures and rejections throughout his life. He dropped out of school at a young age and worked various jobs, getting fired from many of them. At age 40, he began selling fried chicken from his gas station, but faced further setbacks like a restaurant fire. Following the war, his chicken recipe was rejected over 1,000 times by franchises before finally being accepted. However, he persisted and grew KFC into a massive global brand, with over 6,000 locations at the time of his death at age 90.

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    Colonel Harland Sanders founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) after facing many failures and rejections throughout his life. He dropped out of school at a young age and worked various jobs, getting fired from many of them. At age 40, he began selling fried chicken from his gas station, but faced further setbacks like a restaurant fire. Following the war, his chicken recipe was rejected over 1,000 times by franchises before finally being accepted. However, he persisted and grew KFC into a massive global brand, with over 6,000 locations at the time of his death at age 90.

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    The inspiring life story of KFC’s Colonel Sanders

    Have you been rejected or disappointed time and time again? Well Colonel Harland Sanders,
    founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, did. But he took his failures and didn't just make lemonade--
    he made the world a better place.

    Sanders was born in 1890 in Henryville, IN. When he was six years old, his father passed away
    leaving Sanders to cook and care for his siblings. In seventh grade, he dropped out of school and
    left home to go work as a farmhand. Already turning into a tough cookie.

    At 16, he faked his age to enlist in the United States army. After being honorably discharged a
    year later, he got hired by the railway as a laborer. However, he got fired for fighting with a
    coworker. While he worked for the railway, he studied law--until he ruined his legal career by
    getting into another fight. Sanders was forced to move back in with his mom and get a job selling
    life insurance. And guess what? He got fired for insubordination. But this guy wouldn't give up.

    In 1920, he founded a ferry boat company. Later, he tried cashing in his ferry boat business to
    create a lamp manufacturing company only to find out that another company already sold a
    better version of his lamp. Poor guy couldn't catch a break.

    It wasn't until age 40 that he began selling chicken dishes in a service station. As he began to
    advertise his food, an argument with a competitor resulted in a deadly shootout. Four years later,
    he bought a motel which burned to the ground along with his restaurant. Yet this determined man
    rebuilt and ran a new motel until World War II forced him to close it down.

    Following the war, he tried to franchise his restaurant. His recipe was rejected 1,009 times before
    anyone accepted it. Sander's "secret recipe" was coined "Kentucky Fried Chicken", and quickly
    became a hit. However, the booming restaurant was crippled when an interstate opened nearby
    so Sanders sold it and pursued his dream of spreading KFC franchises & hiring KFC workers all
    across the country.

    After years of failures and misfortunes, Sanders finally hit it big. KFC expanded internationally
    and he sold the company for two million dollars ($15.3 million today). Even today, Sanders
    remains central in KFC's branding and his face still appears in their logo. His goatee, white suit
    and western string tie continue to symbolize delicious country fried chicken all over the world.

    At age 90, Sanders passed away from pneumonia. At that time, there were around 6,000 KFC
    locations in 48 countries. By 2013, there were an estimated 18,000 KFC locations in 118
    countries. WOW.

    If you're overwhelmed by rejection or discouraged by setbacks, remember the story of Colonel


    Harland Sanders. Fired from multiple jobs, ruined his legal career, was set back by the Great
    Depression, fires and World War II, yet still created one of the largest fast food chains in the
    world. Sanders wouldn't let anything or anyone defeat him. We should all be more like Colonel
    Sanders (besides the fighting and getting fired part).

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    Complete tasks according to the given text:


    1. Knowledge: Answer to the given questions below:
    Who is the founder of KFC?
    What did Colonel Sanders do at the age of 16?
    At what age did he start selling chicken?
    How many times his “secret recipe” was rejected?
    2. Comprehension:
    Explain why was he forced to close his motel.
    Discuss in the class: why does his face still appear in their logo?
    3. Application:
    Prepare presentation about successful people with similar stories.
    4. Analysis:
    Make a mindmap about the jobs that he had tried.
    Determine his life credo?
    Contruct a flowchart how 6years old boy become an worldwide-known figure.
    5. Evaluation:
    List predictions about his reaction to the regular failure.
    6. Create:
    Create your own story of life like if you had faces the same situation.

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