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    Barack Obama was the first African American president of the United States. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and American mother. Obama had a modest upbringing and attended Occidental College and then transferred to Columbia University, where he graduated with a degree in political science. He later attended Harvard Law School and became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama was elected president in 2008, making history as the first African American U.S. president. As president, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and oversaw economic growth and improvements in areas like healthcare.

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    Evidence: World leaders

    By Vanessa Mejía Satizábal


    Barack Obama
    Barack Obama
    I´m Going to divide this talk into three parts

    1. Barak Obama: leader among the leaders


    a) A leader of his people
    b) When he was born
    c) Why he is famous
    2. The young Obama
    a) when did he live?
    b) School and college
    c) Family life
    3. Barak Obama: an inspiration for others
    d) Obama becomes president
    e) Qualifying the Obama leader's economy, by numbers
    f) Awards and Achievements
    References

    Lets turn now to the first part: Barak Obama : leader among leaders
    A Leader of his people
    Barack Hussein Obama is an American
    politician was the first African-American
    candidate nominated for the presidency by
    the Democratic Party and is the first to hold
    the presidential office.

    Obama is a charismatic man, of ideas,


    principles and convictions, who has managed
    to transmit to the public a vision of hope to
    achieve change.
    When was born ?

    Obama was born on August 4,


    1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, where
    his father, Barack Hussein
    Obama, born in Kenya, and his
    mother, Shirley Ana Dunham, an
    Irishwoman born in Kansas, had
    met.
    Why is he famous ?
    Barak Obama is a reference leader is
    an authentic political leader, endowed
    with attitudes and values that have
    been forged since childhood.

    He is a leader that has been made and


    forged with the experiences of his daily
    life, his leadership has been
    strengthened by values such as trust,
    commitment, a sense of community,
    solidarity with the most needy, hope
    and the iron Will.

    Now will move on to the second part : The young Obama


    The Young Obama
    Born in (Honolulu, Hawaii, 1961) Obama spent his childhood
    between Hawaii and Indonesia, where he met the conditions of
    poverty that affect millions of people in the so-called Third
    World. There he attended his primary education.

    Back in the United States he spent two years at Occidental


    College in Los Angeles. In 1983 he entered the Columbia
    University (New York) to study Political Science, and specialized
    in International Relations.

    In 1991, he entered Harvard University (Cambridge,


    Massachusetts) to further his higher education, and was elected
    the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, a student
    publication of the center.
    School and college
    After graduating from high school in 1979, Obama moved to Los Angeles to
    attend Occidental College.

    In February 1981, Obama made his first public speech, calling for Occidental to
    participate in the disinvestment from South Africa in response to that nation's
    policy of apartheid.

    In mid-1981, Obama traveled to Indonesia to visit his mother and half-sister Maya,
    and visited the families of college friends in Pakistan and India for three weeks.
    Later in 1981, he transferred as a junior to Columbia University in New York City,
    where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations
    and in English literature and lived off-campus on West 109th Street.

    He graduated with a BA degree in 1983 and worked for about a year at the
    Business International Corporation, where he was a financial researcher and
    writer then as a project coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research
    Group on the City College of New York
    Family life

    Obama met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in June


    1989, when he was hired as a summer
    associate at law firm Sidley Austin, at the end of
    the summer they both began a courtship, got
    engaged in 1991, and got married on October 3.
    1992. The first daughter of the couple was born
    in 1998, and they baptized her with the name of
    Malia Ann, then, in 2001, her second daughter,
    Natasha, was born.

    Now we will go to the third part: Barak Obama: an inspiration for others
    Barak Obama: Becomes President
    On February 10, 2007 he announced his candidacy for the
    presidency of the United States and on June 3, 2008 he
    became the candidate of the Democratic Party.

    In the presidential election of November 4, 2008, he became


    president-elect after defeating Republican presidential
    candidate John McCain, taking office as 44th president on
    January 20, 2009.

    On October 9 of that year he was awarded the Nobel Peace


    Prize for his diplomatic efforts in favor of nuclear
    disarmament, the achievement of a peace process in the
    Middle East and the promotion of the fight against climate
    change.
    Qualifying the Obama leader's
    economy, by numbers

    at the end of Obama's term , the overall economy


    continues to expand — slowly. As of the first quarter
    of this year, the U.S. economy is nearly 15 percent
    bigger than when the president took office in 2008,
    adjusted for inflation.
    That gain is slightly less than his predecessor,
    George W. Bush, and roughly half the GDP gain in
    percentage terms during the Reagan
    administration.

    Great figure that ratified him as an economic leader.


    Awards and Achievements
    Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to
    President Barack Obama on December 10, 2009
    "for his efforts to strengthen international
    diplomacy and cooperation among peoples"
    standing out for his "vision of a world without
    nuclear weapons."

    Barack Obama received the King Abdul Aziz


    Necklace of Saudi Arabia in 2009 and the
    Presidential Medal of Distinction (Israel).
    References
    Wikipedia (2017) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Barack Obama – Biography (on
    Line)
    Available at:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

    Biografías y Vidas ( 2018) Enciclopedia biográfica en línea – Barak Obama- Biografía


    Disponible en :
    https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/o/obama.htm

    Biography.com (2017) Barack Obama - U.S. President, U.S. Senator, Lawyer – Biography on
    line
    Available at:
    https://www.biography.com/people/barack-obama-12782369

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