...OVERVIEW Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in[->0] as the 44th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2009. The son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas, he is the first African-American to ascend to the highest office in the land. He defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in a lengthy and bitter primary battle before defeating Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican, in November 2008. As president, Mr. Obama has won passage of a number of sweeping pieces of legislation, notably a health care bill that will eventually provide near-universal coverage, a goal that had eluded Democratic presidents for 75 years. Other big victories included the $787 billion stimulus bill, passed in February 2009, meant to shore up a cratering economy, and a financial regulatory reform measure, passed in July 2010, meant to reduce the odds of another Wall Street meltdown. But Mr. Obama has been stymied on measures like immigration reform and a cap and trade system to reduce carbon emissions by the steadfast opposition of Congressional Republicans, who were joined on some key votes by conservative Democrats. His popularity fell steadily — from 70 percent to under 50 percent — as unemployment stayed stubbornly high. By official accounts, the recession ended, but the recovery was too tepid to knock more than a few fractions off the jobless rate. The White House admitted that it had underestimated the extent of the recession, the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s. With...
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...Barrack Hussein Obama was born to America by Ann Dunham and Kenyan father, Barrack Obama Sr, who were college students at the University of Hawaii. His father later came back to Kenya to work as a government economist leaving the junior Obama and his mother in America. His mother later remarried an Indonesian oil manager and they moved to Jakarta when Barrack was six. In Indonesia he experienced real weight of poverty and he later moved back to Hawaii where he lived with his grandparents. His grandfather was furniture salesman while his grandmother was a banker. He managed to join Punahou School, the best preparatory school in Hawaii. His father used to write to him regularly but he managed to visit Barrack only once when he was ten. Obama attended Chicago University. Later on he worked as a community organizer of a small Chicago church-based group for three years helping poor South Side residents to deal with a wave of plant closings. He visited Harvard law school and in 1990 he became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He married Michelle Robinson a fellow attorney and has two daughters, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama. In 2004 he was elected as a democrat to the US Senate to represent Illinois and gained national attention by giving a rousing speech during the Democratic National convention in Boston. In 2008 he ran for the presidency despite having four year experience in politics and he won defeating his close rival McCain. In 2009 he was sworn the...
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...Barack Obama Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was born to a bi-racial couple. His father was an immigrant from Kenya. His mother was from Kansas. When he was two years old, his parents separated later divorcing. His father remarried and relocated the family to Jakarta, Indonesia. His mother had some concerns for his safety and education, so at the age of 10, Barak was sent to live with grandparents in Hawaii. Barack Obama grew up in a middle-class upbringing with a strong sense of family and the value of education. Through his adolescence, he struggled with the absence of his father. He was uncertain personal and racial identity. His father’s failed aspirations and absence became a cautionary tale of life for him. Obama has been quoted saying “Every man is either trying to live up to his father’s expectations or making up his mistakes.” Excelling in school and basketball, he graduated High school from Pun haw academy in 1979 with honors. He then went on to attend Columbia University. He graduated with a degree in political science. In 1988, he attended Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, he met his wife, Michelle. They settled down in Chicago, where Obama practiced as a civil rights lawyer. This is where he began his political career. He began a helping as an organized for registration drive during Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. In, 2000, Obama made an unsuccessful Democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives...
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...Barack Hussein Obama II (Listeni /bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States, having taken office in 2009. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his election to the presidency in November 2008. A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain...
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...Barack Obama Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th 1961. His mother was born in Kansas and his father was born in Kenya. His grandfather served in Patton's army. Brarack's wife's name is Michelle. Barack and Michelle have two daughters named Sasha and Malia. Sasha is the youngest she is nine. Her older sister Malia is twelve. Obama moved to Chicago. There he worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities. The communities were devastated by the closure of local steel plants. Obama attended law school at Harvard University. He became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Later, he returned to Chicago. He helped lead a voter registration drive there. He got a job teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He later became a member of the Illinois State Senate. He accomplished many things. One of those things were, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years. He also cut taxes for working families and expanded health care for children and their parents. As you can see Barack worked very hard and because of that he accomplished much. When he was a United States Senator he reached across the aisle to pass groundbreaking lobbying reform. He locked up the world most dangerous weapons. He also brought transparency to government. He did this by putting federal spending on line. He did all of that and much more. Barack H. Obama was elected the 44th president of the United states. He was elected on November 4,...
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...Barack Obama as President The name Barack Obama to some people brings joy as they think about the much needed change he promises to bring to our country, but to others it brings anger and disappointment because they feel he won’t be able to bring the change the country needs. To me and many others President Obama is a great leader and is growing into a greater one. He focuses on the issues our country has as a whole such as the economy, education and health care. I believe that Obama has a great plan for all of the issues at hand, but everyone is entitled to their own opinions. When it comes to the economy President Obama inherited a terrible mess when he came into political office; a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit, two wars, rising unemployment and unprecedented crises in our banking system. The Obama Administration has worked overtime to address our immediate problems of rising unemployment, falling home prices and limping credit markets, while taking a longer view in laying a strong foundation for future economic growth that benefits all Americans. To get the economy back on track President Obama signed legislation to jumpstart our economy, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, less than a month after his inauguration. The plan will save or create 3.5 million new jobs, make critical investments in our infrastructure and give 95 percent of working Americans a tax cut. There are many people who are appreciative of what President Obama and his Administration are doing to...
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...Lesson 3.5 Barack Obama 1. BO is repeating ’’Yes we can’’ many times. Trilogon: Line 117; This is our change. This is our moment. This is our time. Line 79 I hear your voices, I need your help, I will be your President. Line 63 Block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand. Anaphora: It’s the answer is repeated three times and from line 67 he is saying Let us many times. Epiphora: At the end of the phrases from line 98 to 112 the some words are being repeated, Yes we can. Alliteration: Line 98, the heartache and the hope. Symbols: ‘’Out of many, we are one’’ is used to unit his audience because BO know that not everybody voted for him and there are many different political parties, so to unify everyone the quote from the motto of the founders of America is being used. 2. BO is mentioning President Lincoln by use of pathos, him being a heroic symbol in American history. He is appealing to their emotions and patriotism. Metaphors: He is calling Michelle the rock of our family. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. The first metaphor is a proof that he needs the love and support from his wife, like any other husband and made her seem strong and loyal. The second one describe that the goal he set will not be easy to reach but still hopeful that they will make it. Through Ann Nixon BO is referring to American history, from slavery to women voting, depressing to the wars, and he did that to draw attention to how fare America has come. ...
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...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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...Barack Obama The office of the American presidency is a multi-faceted occupation that requires many kinds of leadership styles. This hub briefly discusses some of the hats worn by American President Barack Obama over the past four years. Mostly the article focuses on three broad leadership styles including transformational-charismatic, cross-cultural, and contingency-situational leadership. Recently, I added the opinion polls to allow you to rate how you think President Obama has faired in these areas and overall. Please feel free to participate. Transformational-charismatic Before the election, President Barack Obama attracted the attention of American's and foreigners alike with a seemingly charismatic nature. A charismatic leader has an uncanny ability to draw others to his side and move them to accomplish a cause bigger than themselves. A charismatic approach is transformational if it invokes a permanent change in the people who embrace the leader's vision. During his first term, President Obama wooed at least some to his vision by showing the potential to make a huge difference in both domestic and foreign affairs Cross-Cultural-Global Leadership Under the Bush Administration, America's image lost much of its shine. This was mostly due to a unilateral, ethnocentirc foreign policy espoused by Bush and Cheney. While not taking America's safety needs for granted, President Obama formulated a more cross-cultural approach to the world, thinking not only...
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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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...Obama’s Yes We Can Speech ________________________________________ January 8, 2008. I want to congratulate Senator Clinton on a hard-fought victory here in New Hampshire. A few weeks ago, no one imagined that we'd have accomplished what we did here tonight in New Hampshire. For most of this campaign, we were far behind, and we always knew our climb would be steep. But in record numbers, you came out and spoke up for change. And with your voices and your votes, you made it clear that at this moment - in this election - there is something happening in America. There is something happening when men and women in Des Moines and Davenport; in Lebanon and Concord come out in the snows of January to wait in lines that stretch block after block because they believe in what this country can be. There is something happening when Americans who are young in age and in spirit - who have never before participated in politics - turn out in numbers we've never seen because they know in their hearts that this time must be different. There is something happening when people vote not just for the party they belong to but the hopes they hold in common - that whether we are rich or poor; black or white; Latino or Asian; whether we hail from Iowa or New Hampshire, Nevada or South Carolina, we are ready to take this country in a fundamentally new direction. That is what's happening in America right now. Change is what's happening in America. You can be the new majority who can...
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...“You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.” said Barack Obama. By this very quote, it shows how good of a leader Barack Obama was and is. Even though he is no longer president, people still remember him for his tremendous work throughout his years of being president. One way Barack Obama showed leadership during his presidency is that he always believed. He believed in change. No matter what topic he was talking about he would always seem to put everything he had into what he was going for. Also while doing this he also got a lot of people to believe or join signs with him. His mind set to change america was impeccable. Barack Obama believed, but he showed other qualities like, taking risks and communicated very well. He would show his true self, not some perfect president most people wanted. In many...
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...Barack Obama’s Victory Speech: What rhetorical devices does he use and what is the intended effect? When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech to thousands of Americans in 1963, nobody would have thought that one day America will be led by a black president. In November 2008, 45 years later, Barack Obama was elected as the first African American president in the history of the United States. From that day on he represented the dream come true of millions of his fellow citizens. In his victory speech, Barack Obama makes use of multiple rhetoric devices, in order to catch the people’s attention, make them strive for his goals and predominantly call for unity. By a frequent use of the third person plural pronouns “we”, “us” and “our(s)”, Obama creates a sense of community and also puts himself on a level with his audience. To emphasize the role and importance of every single American for the future of the Nation, he lists some contrasting characteristics: “young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled”. All of these people play an important role and are part of the United States of America. Additionally, Obama expresses his dependence on the audience by expressions like “I cannot happen without you”. All of these devices, used to speak on behalf of the audience, create a strong feeling of unity. Furthermore, Obama chooses the rhetorical devices of...
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...Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4th, 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. Dunham, originally from Kansas and Obama, from Kenya met at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and eventually married on February 2nd, 1961. Barack moved to Massachusetts to obtain a PhD at Harvard. Consequently, Dunham and Obama divorced in March 1964. Eventually, he went back to Kenya, and Barack didn’t have a relationship with him. In 1965, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a student from Indonesia, and the following year moved with Obama to Jakarta, Indonesia. Since Dunham was afraid for Obama’s safety and education, he was sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. He graduated from Punahou Academy with academic honors in 1979. Unfortunately, Obama’s father died on November 24th, 1982 in a car accident in Nairobi....
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...In 2009, Barack Obama gave a speech in New York City at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People convention. Obama stood tall and confident delivering his speech which made it even more influential. In addition, former president Obama divided his speech into sections to support his argument on how to end inequality. The following sections that support the argument are how parents can help, growth in education, and how the government can pitch in to help the issue. Parents play an enormous portion of a child’s life. Obama agrees, and says, “To parents, we can’t tell our kids to do well in school and fail to support them when they get home. For our kids to excel, we must accept our own responsibilities.” This means that parents need to show up to parent-teacher conferences, read to their children, and help them with their homework. In addition, put away their children’s electronics and lay their kids to bed at a sensible time. Also, Obama states, “It also means pushing our kids to set their sights higher. They might think they’ve got pretty good jump shot or a pretty good flow, but our kids can’t all aspire to be the next LeBron or Lil Wayne.” In other words, most kids this generation want to be ballers and rappers, we...
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