“YEAR OF THE BICENTENNIAL OF PERU:

200 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE”

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA

LANGUAGE CENTER

PROJECT WORK: “BARACK OBAMA”

Students:
● Álvarez Morillo, Angie Tracy
● Magallanes Borja, Juan Bernardo
● Tello Pinillos, Erick Jesús
● Torres Tarazona, Beatriz Guadalupe

Miss: Méndez López, Janeth

Cycle: Intermediate Intensive IV

Nuevo Chimbote, 2021

INDEX
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................... 3

CAPTER I: EARLY LIFE AND PARENTS...........................................................................4

CAPTER II: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION.............................................................................5

CAPTER III: EDUCATION AND CAREER..........................................................................5

CAPTER IV: FAMILY AND PERSONAL LIFE.....................................................................6

CAPTER V: PERSONAL TYPE..........................................................................................7

CAPTER VI: PRESIDENCY................................................................................................7

CAPTER VII: POST-PRESIDENCY....................................................................................8

CAPTER VIII: 2009 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.......................................................................8

CONCLUSIONS..................................................................................................................... 9

INTRODUCTION

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Barack Obama, in full Barack Hussein Obama II, he was born on August 4th, 1961 in
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. He is 44th president of the United States, between 2009 and 2017,
and the first African American to hold the office.

Before winning the presidency, Obama represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate, between
2005 and 2008. He was the third African American to be elected to that body since the end
of Reconstruction (1877).

In 2009 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen
international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a
strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction
that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others.

Full Name BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

Birth Date August 4, 1961
Birth Place Honolulu, Hawaii
Education Columbia University (B.A., 1983), Harvard (J.D.,
1991)
Religion Christian
Career Community Organizer, Public Official
Political Party Democrat
Nickname “Barry”
Marriage October 3, 1992 to Michelle Robinson
Children Malia Ann (1998); Natasha, known as Sasha (2001)
Inauguration Date January 20, 2009
Date Ended January 20, 2017
President Number 44

CAPTER I: EARLY LIFE AND PARENTS

He was born on August 4, 1961 in the city of Honolulu, Hawaii. The son of Barack Obama
Sr., a Kenyan economist; and Stanley Ann Dunham, an American anthropologist, who met
while attending the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign
student.

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When he was two years old, his parents separated. After the divorce, his father returned to
Kenya and was reunited with his son for the last time in 1971, before dying in a car accident
in 1982. His mother married Lolo Soetoro, and in 1967 they moved their family to
Indonesia. , her new husband's country of origin.

Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old. He then returned to live
in Honolulu with his maternal grandparents and in 1971 he was enrolled in the fifth grade at
Punahou School, where he remained until his graduation from high school in 1979. His
mother returned to Hawaii in 1972 and
stayed there for several years. until in 1977
he traveled to Indonesia again to do his field
work, in 1995, Ann passed away

Obama speaking at a rally in Conway, South

Carolina, on August 23, 2007.
After graduating from high school, he moved
to Los Angeles and began his studies at
Occidental College for a period of two years.
Later, he transferred to Columbia University
in New York City for a degree in Science.
Politics, with a specialization in International
Relations, graduated with an undergraduate
degree in Liberal Arts from Columbia in
1983, then joined the Business International
Corporation and the New York Public
Interest Research Group.

CAPTER II: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

The originality of Barack Obama as a politician and foreign emblem

of the United States lies in being a product that breaks with the
traditional characteristics of the presidential leader. So it is because
of his transversal projection based on his special racial
characteristics and his multicultural and social origin. Also due to the

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populist aspects and emotional content that a representative of the post-Vietnam generation,
middle class and education in elite higher centers develops in a campaign characterized by
the new sectorial ordering of the American voter.

All this is manifested in the form of an image, a charisma and an eminently media leadership
based on the birth, experience and publication of a biographical work that affects very
specific groups that strictly rigorously he does not belong: the black Afro-American
population and the Latino minorities visibly linked to economic immigration.

CAPTER III: EDUCATION AND CAREER

At age 10, Obama returned to

Hawaii to live with his maternal
grandparents. He attended the
Punahou School, an elite private
school where, as he wrote in his
1995 memoir, Dreams from My
Father, he first began to
understand the tensions inherent
in his mixed racial background.
After two years at Occidental
College in Los Angeles, he
transferred to Columbia University in New York City, from which he graduated in 1983 with a
degree in political science. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in
1991. While at Harvard, he became the first Black editor of the prestigious Harvard Law
Review.
CAPTER IV: FAMILY AND PERSONAL LIFE

Obama’s father, also named Barack Hussein Obama, grew up in a small village in Nyanza
Province, Kenya, as a member of the Luo ethnicity. He won a scholarship to study
economics at the University of Hawaii, where he met and married Ann Dunham, a white
woman from Wichita, Kansas, whose father had worked on oil rigs during the Great
Depression and fought with the U.S. Army in World War II before moving his family to Hawaii
in 1959. Barack and Ann’s son, Barack Hussein Obama Jr., was born in Honolulu on August
4, 1961.Obama’s parents later separated, and Barack Sr. went back to Kenya. He would see
his son only once more before dying in a car accident in 1982. Ann remarried in 1965. She

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and her new husband, an Indonesian man named Lolo Soetoro, moved with her young son
to Jakarta in the late 1960s, where Ann worked at the U.S. embassy. Obama’s half-sister,
Maya Soetoro Ng, was born in Jakarta in 1970.

Obama met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in June 1989, when he was hired as a summer
associate at the Sidley Austin law firm. Robinson was assigned for three months as his
counselor at the law firm, and shared some social gatherings with Obama, but she initially
rejected his proposals to start a romantic relationship. However, at the end of the summer
the two began a courtship. They got engaged in 1991, and were married on October 3,
1992. The couple's first daughter was born in 1998, and she was christened Malia Ann. In
2001 his second daughter Natash was born.

CAPTER V: PERSONAL TYPE

Barack Obama tends to be outgoing, warm, and outgoing with new

people.
As is known, the former president of the United States is a type who
generates peace and is tolerant of conflict situations. This has made it
possible for him to reach people and guide them for a common good,
in turn being persuasive helped him a lot when he was president.

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CAPTER VI: PRESIDENCY

The Barack Obama’s

presidency began on
January 20th, 2009,
when Obama was
inaugurated as the 44th
president of the United
States, and ended on
January 20, 2017.

Obama is a democrat
from Illinois, he won to the Republican nominee John McCain in the 2008 presidential
election. Four years later, in the 2012 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee
Mitt Romney to win re-election. Obama was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump, who
won the 2016 presidential election.

He was the first African American president, the first multiracial president, the first non-white
president, and the first president to have been born in Hawaii.

Obama's first-term actions addressed the global financial crisis legislation to reform health
care, a major financial regulation reform bill, and the end of a major US military presence in
the Iraq War and he reduced nuclear weapons with the United States – Russia New START
treaty. He also ordered the military operation that resulted in the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

In his second term, Obama took steps to combat climate change, signing a major
international climate agreement and an executive order to limit carbon emissions. Obama
also presided over the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as
ACA or “Obamacare”), he promoted inclusion for LGBT Americans and he negotiated
rapprochements with Iran and Cuba. The number of American soldiers in Afghanistan fell
dramatically during Obama's second term, though U.S. soldiers remained in Afghanistan
throughout Obama's presidency and continue to as of 2021.

Finally, during Obama’s terms in office, the United States’ reputation abroad, as well as the
American economy, significantly improved. Obama’s presidency has generally been
regarded favorably.

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CAPTER VII: POST-PRESIDENCY

CAPTER VIII: 2009 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

CONCLUSIONS
Barack Obama has made history by conquering the task of becoming the first African
American president, Obama remains to be popular and well liked so far in his presidency
career, but still has a long time to make a lasting impression.