...Introduction: The intention of this research paper is to establish that President Barack Obama is a high-minded leader. This composition is aimed towards those who are uncertain whether they support our current president. In this research paper, the question, “Is Obama a great leader? “Will be answered. To support the main question of this paper these questions will also be answered: Does Obama have influence, has he created a positive change, Does he exhibit integrity, Does he have well-defined priorities, and does he display the quality of vision? Mythology: The method of research used in determining whether president Barrack Obama is a good leader was as follows: First, defining what traits a good leader exhibits. Through the article “Great Leaders grow deep roots: six characteristics of exceptional leaders” provided great insight in explain what a good leader is. Second, by researching speech given by Obama the quality of his leadership was able to be determined. Then, a variety of articles were investigated though the internet. Finally a number of blog post where sifted through to experience the opinions of others. By this method of research a wide range of thought was gathered on Obamas leaderships skills. Research: Many sources were used to derive a conclusion on Obamas leadership character. Below our the sources with their Claim, Evidence, and reasoning. Barack Obama in the speech, “American rhetoric” claims that America is a great country full of oppurnitys...
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...THE COMPARISON OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION JOURNEYS, BETWEEN PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI INTRODUCTION | | BARACK OBAMAThe “Rise of President Barrack Obama” case reviewed upon on how the background of Barack Obama, his tussles and the leadership virtues made him the 44th President of the United State of America. Born in Honolulu Hawaii, on August 4th, 1962 to a black Kenyan native and a white woman from Kansas –who were married for only three years. He graduated from both Columbia University and Harvard Law School. In 1995 he was elected into Illinois State Senate and got elected into the US senate in 2004. He went on to become a democratic candidate for president by 2008, defeating Hilary Clinton. | GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARIAs the 23rd child of his father, Buhari was born on the 17th of December 1942 in Daura, Katsina State, to the father Adamu –who died when Buhari was four years old- and mother Zulaihat. He began his education at a primary school in Daura and then proceeded to Katsina Model School and Katsina Provincial Secondary School.Buhari joined the Nigerian Military Training School in Kaduna, where his military career began and he became the Head of state from 1983-1985.After three failed consecutive Presidential election contests, Buhari announced his fourth campaign in 2014, could this be his fourth failed contest or is the fourth time a charm? | VISIONS OF CHANGE Irrespective of their clear good objectives, politicians...
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...Barack Obama is the second most powerful leader in the world and the president of the United States of America. Obama is so powerful because he has courage, integrity, and one of his best qualities, he has confidence. Barack Obama is a very strong and powerful leader because he has taken control of a country that was falling and helped that country get back on their feet through strong leadership qualities. Barack Obama has many leadership qualities, one of these qualities is his integrity. For those who don't know, (Malcolm Friedberg) "integrity is the act of keeping to your personal morals or ethics." (.) Obama has integrity because he does everything on his terms and the way he likes to do it. A man named Malcolm Friedberg talked about Obamas integrity. (Malcolm Friedberg, from Barack Obamas Integrity)"The man who has the courage to do what's best for all of us, show me the man that will risk losing the election because he won't compromise his values."(JscdClObama.weebly.com) Integrity is one of Obamas best leadership qualities because he will not do anything that is against what he believes to be true, or correct to his values....
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...The Life of and Accomplishments of President Barack Obama Damion Gayle Freedom Writers Org. Author Note Damion Gayle, Student of Computer & Electronics Technology, DeVry University, Addison, IL prepared this document as an outline of Barack Obama and his accomplishments. I have written this outline on a leader/role-model in my life. The role model I chose is Barack Obama. Abstract Barack Obama is the 44th and most recent President of the United States of America. I prepared this document to show how the president of the United States became a role-model in my life. I will give an outline of the life and accomplishments of the president. I will also give the resources of my information. The Life and Accomplishments of Barack Obama Essay Resources My resources come from the DeVry University ecollege Library. Barack Obama in His Own words ed. by Lisa Rogak. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick.. Barack Obama, the New Face of American Politics by Martin Dupuis and Keith Boeckelman. Essay Content and Organization Barack Obama became President of the United States at a critical time financially. This was a time that from day one in office he had to display true leadership skills. I chose him because he had many obstacles when he took the job on. He became a role model in my life because I also have obstacles that I have to overcome. He teaches me day after day that no matter how big the mountain you can climb...
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...Presidency of Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II, the first African-American president of the United States of America was born in the State of Hawaii where he grew up. Barack Obama was born to a white American mother, Ann Dunham, and a black Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr., who were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his father left for Harvard, she and Barack stayed behind, and his parents eventually divorced. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. He later recounted Indonesia as simultaneously lush and a harrowing exposure to tropical poverty. He returned to Hawaii, His grandparents raised him up from a humble background. In 2007 when then Senator Barack Obama announced his run for the presidency of the United States, the country was experiencing great turmoil and people were ready for a change in leadership. No matter what political party you held, it appeared to be an overwhelming sentiment that people were looking for a shift in direction, especially relating to the bad economical positions a lot of Americans had found themselves in. The presidency of Obama began on 20th January in the year 2009 after he was sworn in as the 44th president of United States of America. Before unveiling his ambition of vying for the top seat, Barack Obama was the Illinois senator in United States. Obama’s presidency came about as a result of succeeding President George Bush. Bush’s presidency was characterized...
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...be times person of the year for 2009 who would your choice be include details, explain your choice and include examples. President Barack Obama should be considered as the person of the year. In order to be considered the person of the year, an individual must demonstrate exemplary qualities. He must have profound leadership that warrants outstanding achievements. Some of these qualities may include saving someone’s life, being a humanitarian, or ending a war. In 2009 President Barack Obama became the first African American President. He won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. He has worked diligently on the Health Care Reform Bill trying to ensure that all Americans have adequate health care than other presidents in United States history. The Constitution states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” If this statement was true, why has there not been an African American President until 2009 in the United States of America? This was a great accomplishment by President Barack Obama. He won in an arena that no African American has ever succeeded. His election came on the hills of a country searching for hope and a new direction. He also transformed the way candidates ran their race. Throughout the years, presidential candidates exploited one another’s past. During the presidential race in 2008, President Barack Obama did not try to win by making negative remarks about his opponent Senator John McCain. Instead, he remained positive, professional...
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...January 12, 2016, President Barack Obama presented the State of the Union Address to the American people. In this speech, President Barack Obama spoke about many different issues. In this paper, I will review and evaluate President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address using the two checklists from Catherine Smith’s book entitled, Writing Public Policy. I will evaluate if President Obama’s speech addresses a specific audience about a specific problem, the purpose related to a specific policy action, that it represents authority accurately, uses the appropriate form and design for use. I will also review the clarity, correctness, conciseness and credibility of President Obama’s State of the Union Address. Features of Effectiveness President Obama’s State of the Union speech addressed a specific audience about specific problems. The audience is composed of Senators, Democrats, and Republicans. The President’s speech is the final report on the State of the Union. President Obama’s speech...
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..."An Evaluation of President Obama's First Year and a Half as POTUS" Introduction Barrack Obama became the 44th President of the United States of America on January 20th, 2009. He is the first African American to take office and with his presidency he promised to make changes to America that would liberate the American people from crisis into a bright new beginning. In his Inauguration speech, he claimed to mend the financial crisis by stimulating jobs and laying a “new foundation for growth” (Naughton, “Inauguration speech”). He promised to rebuild the Nation’s foundations such as roads, bridges, electric grids, and digital lines, to revive the prosperity and importance of science, to increase the care and lower the cost of health care, to mend the threat of global warming, to enact peace with Afghanistan, to withdraw from Iraq, and to transform the educational system to meet the conditions of a new era (Naughton, “Inauguration speech”). Throughout his first year as president Obama has enacted many policies and regulations such as the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and Health Care Bill. However, has Obama stayed true to his original promises stated throughout his campaigns, in his Inauguration speech, as well as his first State of Union speech. Has Obamba’s first year been a success or a failure? This essay will explore the history of Obama’s ascend to presidency, his success and failures, and an overall evaluation of Obama’s first year in office...
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...history and fighting for equality for all races. When thinking of Martin Luther King Jr., another person with very similar qualities comes into mind, Former President, Barack Obama. Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States who had many similar views and qualities to King’s. These two men have played a substantial role in shaping America into what it is today. Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama both grew up in similar conditions and circumstances. They both raised in good conditions and grew up in households with their parents. Both men also came from middle class backgrounds. These two also graduated from some of the best universities in the Boston Area. Obama attended Harvard Law School in 1988 and graduated with great distinction in 1991. M.L.K. Jr. attended Boston University and was awarded his Ph.D. in 1955 when he was only 25 years old....
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...President Barack Obama begins the speech with a purpose of putting a bid in for the 2012 presidential election. He starts off with the large success in halting the Taliban and the Iraq war. Following statements prove he has a strong sense of middle class awareness and the gradual rise. He then moves along to the stock market rising again for the first in a long time since its slow decline. President Barack Obama states that nearly four million jobs were lost in the six months before he took office; he has created 3.2 million jobs in the last 22 months. One of the things that President Barack Obama leans heavily on is the uproar and rise of the economy. Since he was put in office he has filled 3.2 out of the 4 million job deficit that he was elected into, last year American businesses created the most jobs since 2005. Making a 2 trillion dollar deficit cut and putting “wall street accountable and responsible for any further mistakes so a crisis like this never happens again”. With over one million jobs at stake and after a bailout for General Motors when they were near the verge of imminent collapse he has turned them around to be the largest automobile manufacturer once again. President Barack Obama believes in keeping American thriving with other American businesses such as, new manufacturing and American energy. It is no longer cost effective and as efficient as it used to be for foreign imported goods at the cost of our economy. President Barack Obama then talks about...
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...In today’s era of Youtube, the mass media plays an important role in covering facts and features of elections. Right from the campaigning to voting to election of a candidate, all news events are covered by the media. Politics is a tough and rough game and each country needs a democratic nominee who is willing to protect the country from all evils. The recent elections of 2008 were indeed the most historical presidential elections in the history of U.S. Illinois Senator Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United State. During the election, there was this first lady, named Hillary Rodham Clinton, who expressed her interest in the presidential election of 2008. Until then, in the history of presidential election in United State, none of the woman had ever won the major party nomination. Well-educated Hillary Clinton had a good experience of public service and managing the Oval office. She emerged as a dedicated and hard working lady from the American women’s perspective. The staff members and policy team of the campaign The initial team of her campaign was supported and run by a group of advisers and political operatives. Mark Penn, Penn, Schoen & Berland were considered as the stategic genius of Clinton’s campaign. The chief operating officer of the campaign was Evelyn S. Lieberman while Howard Wolfson was the spokesperson of the campaign. Many other well-known senior advisers and subject specialist formed the focus group of the campaign. Ann Lewis was campaign’s senior...
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...Although there are many individuals I would consider as the embodiment of good leadership, I would attempt to focus my attention on President Barack Obama (PBO) as the embodiment of good leadership. Mills D. Q (2005), explains leadership as a process by which one person influences the behavior, thoughts and attitudes of others (p.11). This means that leadership sets direction for the rest to follow and also energizes people towards a goal. I would limit this paper to his past leadership roles, the criteria used in determining his leadership capabilities and provide illustrations of how he demonstrated these leadership capabilities in his roles. Past Leadership Roles of PBO Prominent among the many leadership roles held by PBO include but not limited to him being the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office. During his first two years in office, he signed into law economic stimulus legislation in response to the Great Recession in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. (Barack Obama. [Internet]. 2015). Other major domestic initiatives in his first term included the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often referred to as "Obamacare. In foreign policy, Obama ended U.S. military involvement in the Iraq War, increased U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, signed the New START arms control treaty with Russia...
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...“The Poof” very popular. This new hairstyle has created a whole new trend in society. Everyone is trying to make their hair long and full of volume just like Nicole’s hair. Her elegance, class, and hair have made her a well-known public figure to society. Not only is she changing television, but now she plans on heading to the white house. She believes President Barack Obama’s stylist is harming the president’s physical appearance. The President of the United States of America is our country’s representative. The way he appears to the rest of the world is how the United States will be perceived. When a president is on top of the trends, it shows he is well informed and austere about what pleases the citizens of his country. If he does not dress fashionably, his former supporters who voted for him in the previous election may not vote for him again. Also, other political leaders will not be able to take him seriously if he is not up-to-date on what is modern and current. According to the magazine Hot Politics, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, cannot take President Barack Obama seriously. He said, “A president who does not know fashion is not well aware of his surroundings. It shows he does not take his work seriously. If he did care about his job, he would dress appropriately according to new fashion trends. It also shows he is not daring and willing to try new things for his country to...
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...Presidency of Barack Obama Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States of America was born in the State of Hawaii where he grew up. His grandparents raised him up from a humble background. The presidency of Obama began on 20th January in the year 2009 after he was sworn in as the 44th president of United States of America. Before unveiling his ambition of vying for the top seat, Barack Obama was the Illinois senator in United States. Obama’s presidency came about as a result of succeeding President George Bush. Bush’s presidency was characterized by a series of severe terrorist attacks. Obama’s presidency had national security as his main objective. Obama’s vision is to improve the national security of the Americans as well as other continents as evident in the speech he delivered at the National Archives. Through enhancing the level of national security across the States, he has ensured a complete elimination of any act of terrorism within America. When Barack Obama took power and office, the economy of America was already in recession. At this time, the economy of United States was believed to be in a critical and devastated state as it nearly fell. This forced the President Obama to include vital themes and issues associated to financial crises among his policy decisions. Obama’s presidency aims at saving, reconstructing and even restructuring the failing economy which had resulted to severe recession. The presidency of Barack Obama has been...
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...Article 1 At the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte N.C., former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday put Barack Obama’s name in nomination for reelection as president with an impassioned plea that Americans renew Obama’s contract for four more years. For those voters who have yet to decide whether to let Obama keep the keys to the White House or send him packing, here’s a primer in political prognostication: past is prologue; and personality drives behavior. Past is prologue The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. No speech, no campaign promise will fundamentally alter the general tenor of the Obama presidency in a second term. If you dislike Obama’s first-term agenda or leadership style as president, there’s little reason to cast a vote for Obama in hope of change. For the nonpartisan or independent voter, the great challenge is to anticipate how the candidate will govern. That task is simplified with an incumbent because the candidate’s track record telegraphs his likely path. However, the future is always uncertain. Little did we know when we sized up George W. Bush’s fitness for office in 2000 that history would throw us a curveball a year later in the form of Sept. 11. This is where political psychology earns its keep. Personality drives behavior Personality refers to the stable patterns of a person’s motives, thoughts and actions over time and across a broad range of situations. Accurate personality assessment allows us to anticipate a...
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