Barack Obama was an influential person because of his contributions to not only America‚ but the world; despite the harsh racism and criticism. One of the first accomplishments of Barack Obama was becoming a Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party and eventually becoming America’s first black president. This proves that Barack Obama succeeded with becoming the first black U.S. president‚ even though he struggled against bigotry and the doubt of other people. This is still affecting the world
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Barack Obama On August 4th‚ 1961 in Honolulu‚ Barack Obama was born. Barack’s mother‚ Ann Dunham‚ lived in Wichita‚ Kansas during her life‚ while her father was employed on oil rigs in Great Depression time. After the Pearl Harbor attacks led by Japan‚ Ann’s father‚ Stanley Dunham joined United States Armed Forces under George Patton’s control and marched across Europe. Obama’s father‚ Barack Obama Sr.‚ was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province‚ Kenya. Barack Obama Sr. lived his early years
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WHY Michelle Obama is running for office: In Michelle Obama’s first major address at the Democratic National Convention‚ she declared “I love this country”. Obama wants to serve as a compassionate servant leader for her country. During her time as the First Lady‚ she used her platform in the White House to address issues like access to better schools for children‚ access to healthier food for children‚ and access to better job training for all Americans. She rarely shied away from taking on her critics
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analyze 2 presidents from the past 60 years‚ which are Barack Obama and George W. Bush. I am going to discuss how they charge citizens and compare which had a bigger impact on the nation. First of all‚ I am going to discuss on Barack Obama’s time in office‚ which tends his terms has finished recently. When Obama was in office back in 2008‚ he was making a change in the tax. He decided to tax on the rich more while taxing on the poor lower (Obama White House). Graphically‚ it looks similar to an exponential
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ALL HAIL KING OBAMA It is hard to ignore the problems in Washington when everyone is talking about them. From the corrupt democrats to the right wing extremist republicans‚ everyone seems to have a problem with the people that are in government seats in Washington. The speaker of the house seems to be getting a lot of the attention recently‚ being called a number of derogatory statements. Yes it seems everyone has a problem with the government of these United States. Still however the
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Obama vs. Marx Alan Wolfe firmly believes that liberalism and socialism are not the same and it’s ludicrous to think that they are. I agree with this fully‚ they are two totally different political philosophies. Wolfe uses President Obama as his prime examples in comparing how these philosophies are indeed different‚ almost opposites. Take for instance his proposal for the healthcare reform. Obama’s form of liberalism would offer a healthcare program with several choices as opposed to a socialist
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Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) led by Thurgood Marshall led the attempts to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson and it¡¯s ¡°Separate but Equal¡± ruling. The NAACP did not directly attack Plessy v. Ferguson because they did not have the support needed to overturn such an important case. Therefore‚ the NAACP started out by taking several small cases that consisted of segregation in elementary schools and middle schools. The NAACP argued that if African Americans were getting a separate
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Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America. Obama is the first African American to be elected to office and the first president the United States. Obama Nation on August 4‚ 1961 in Hawaii. Obama’s defense work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate. He served as a Democrat and won the 1996 elections. During his years as a state senator‚ Obama worked with Democrats and Republicans to draft ethics laws‚ as well as expand health care services and early childhood education
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Michelle Kehoe Michelle Kehoe lived in the town of Coralville‚ Iowa with her husband and two sons. Kehoe and her family first made headlines in 2007 when she lost control of her vehicle and drove off a bridge with her two sons in the back seat. It was during the month of December that Kehoe was driving her boys to the library when the car hit a curb‚ began to skid on a patch of ice and fell into the river. A few passersby on scene including a man named Cory Rath were fortunately able to help the
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East‚ and many other events. President Barack Obama came in during one of the worst economic recessions since the Great Depression‚ and somehow he managed to control the situation. Obama came in when the country needed to count on the president the most‚ and he did his job as best as he could‚ he did it well enough that he served as president for eight years. Although he didn’t do something extraordinary to be one of the top ten presidents ever‚ Obama sure does deserve to be placed at least in the
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