How Did Michelle Obama Influence The World

Not a First Lady, a Queen “Choose people who lift you up” as said by a women whose inspiration can inspire you to do anything. Michelle Obama known as our first lady is this generation’s empowerment. Obama’s accomplishments have set real life goals that may seem unrealistic, but they’re obtainable. I consider her as the hardest working women before and since she has came onto the spotlight. Personally, I would love to follow in her path, she is one of the women who inspire me most. Early in her years she was determined by success, hard work, and being a motivational wife to our president. Obama also established many great movements such as let’s move and let girl learn as part of her dedication.
Obama was born in Chicago, IL and was raised by her father Fraser, and mother Marian. Both parents knew their daughter was special, for she skipped the second grade to entering the gifted program in the sixth. When Obama got to high school she graduated top of her class and as a member of the national’s honor society. After high school, Obama was determined to do excellent in college. She graduated again top of her class at Princeton University in 1985. As a result, she didn’t stop there Obama decided to proceed with her education, in 1985 she graduated Harvard law school. Although Obama had started a children’s after school program as a Princeton student, and worked for a legal aid when she was in Harvard (qtd. In Flagg). Obama’s initial job was at a big duty law firm, Chicago’s Sidley& Austin. She specialized in intellectual property matters, representing major companies such as AT&T. Obama admitted “Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives” (qtd. In Flagg). This admiration carried out through her younger
In 1989, she met her husband Barack Obama. Obama married Barack in 1992 and a few years later had two beautiful daughters by the name of Malia Ann and Natasha. So, later on Obama started out an assistant to Chicago’s mayor Richard M. Daley in 1991 (Obama 3). Some of her duties were to purse executive director of Public Allies Chicago and associate dean of student services at the University of Chicago. While her husband sought out to become IL senate in 1997. Even though he failed in 2000, but four years later he made history by becoming the nation’s first African American in chief. At the time Michelle said “The life of a political wife is hard. And that’s why Barack is such a grateful man” (Obama 182). With his wife by his side Barack was inaugurated in January of 2009. Michelle mentioned “I can’t help thinking that what he would really want, be powerfully drawn to, was a women, very strong, very upright, a fighter, a laugher, well-experienced- a black women I keep seeing her as” (qtd. In Flagg). Barack and Michelle reached out to a lot of marriages across the United States, making them the portrait of American