Evidence: World leaders

By Erika Daniela Prada Contreras

Barack Obama
Barack Obama I´m Going to divide this talk into three parts
• 1. Barak Obama: leader among the leaders
a) A leader of his people
b) When he was born
c) Why he is famous
• 2. The young Obama
a) when did he live?
b) School and college
c) Family life
• 3. Barak Obama: an inspiration for others
d) Obama becomes president
e) Qualifying the Obama leader's economy, by numbers
f) Awards and Achievements References Lets turn now to the first
part: Barak Obama : leader among leaders
 A Leader of his people
• Barack Hussein Obama is an
American 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.
 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
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2018)
• Encyclopedia biographical in lineal – Barak Obama- Biografía
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Biography.com (2017) Barack Obama - U.S. President, U.S. Senator,
• Lawyer – Biography on line Available at:
https://www.biography.com/people/barack-obama-12782369