EVIDENCE: WORLD LEADERS

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 BARACK 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

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 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

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 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 peoples"
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).