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The person I admire the most IS barack Obama

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

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 109 th 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

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 44 th 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.

CONCLUSION:

Barack Obama became a world leader thanks to his effort and work, he managed to break down
barriers with a humanitarian policy, regardless of his color showed the world that people of African
descent are also trained to run a country and I admire him because in his term as president He did
great things for the United States, he was never involved in scandals and always showed love,
respect and support for his wife because as he said behind a successful man there is always a great
woman.

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