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Answer Being surrounded by crimes, poverty, and failing schools as well as his own lack of confidence in his abilities. What are two of Irving's first big dreams? Being a pilot and flying solo around the world.
There is more than one conjunction in the sentence, the word but acts as a coordinating conjunction. Also the words not only and but also act as a correlative conjunction.