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Bar ac k O bama
  Barak Obama: leader among the leaders

Barack Obama 
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A leader of his people
When he was born
 Why he is famous
 The young Obama
I´m Going to divide this  when did he live?
talk into three parts  School and college
 Family life
 Barak Obama: an inspiration for others
 Obama becomes president
 Qualifying the Obama leader's economy, by numbers
 Awards and Achievements
 A Leader of his people

Barack Hussein Obama is an Americanpolitician 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.
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.
 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 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
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Biografías y Vidas ( 2018) Enciclopedia

biográfica en línea – Barak Obama-
Biografía
Disponible en :
https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/
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Biography.com (2017) Barack Obama - U.S. President, U.S. Senator, Lawyer – Biography on
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Available at:
https://www.biography.com/people/barack-obama-12782369