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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 during the Reagan istration.

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