EVIDENCE: WORLD LEADERS

Carlos Quimbaya

ENGLISH DOT WORK 6

 BA R AC K OBAMA
I´M GOING TO DIVIDE THIS TALK INTO THREE PARTS

1. Barak Obama: leader among the leaders

 A leader of his people
 When he was born
 Why he is famous
2. The young Obama
 when did he live?
 School and college
 Family life
3. Barak Obama: an inspiration for others
 Obama becomes president
 Qualifying the Obama leader's economy, by numbers
 Awards and
Achievements References

Lets turn now to the first part: Barak Obama : leader among leaders
 A LEADER OF
HIS PEOPLE
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
OBAMABorn 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
COLLE G E
Aft
Angeles to
er gra duating from high school in 1979, Obama moved to Los
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

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
LEA 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 terms during the Reagan
administration.

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
standing "vision of a world without

outpeforplehsis"
nuclear weapons."

Barack Obama received the King Abdul Aziz

Necklace of Saudi Arabia in 2009 and the
Presidential Medal of Distinction (Israel).
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