Prof. Louise Lord
English 11
Section B22
Comparison-Contrast essay
The Different Backgrounds of Michelle Obama and Melania Trump
Although everyone is making assumptions about how the new first lady is going to be, we have to admit that Michelle Obama has done an amazing job as a first lady. While some people might be skeptical about the new FLOTUS there are three points that are significant and might influence the perceptions of the people about Mrs. Trump in her new job. In my opinion, it is going to be challenging for her since the country had been well represented by Mrs. Obama as FLOTUS.
It is kind of difficult to look at both backgrounds and not to make comparisons while you are looking at them, but we can start with …show more content…
Her father was a city-pump operator and her mother was a housewife, although she worked for some time later she decided to stay at home to raise their kids; she has one brother. Despite of all the struggles she lived, her parents saved money to send her and her brother to college. Her parents consider that even they couldn't go to college because it was expensive, they wanted to make sure their children could so; they started saving money.
Mrs. Obama is a product from public schools and hard effort. When she was in elementary school, she took classes in her school's gifted programs where she learned French and take accelerated courses in Biology. She has two Ivy League’s college degrees; she went to Princeton and Harvard law school. She graduated cum laude in Princeton with a B.A. in Sociology while at Harvard, she was awarded with a Jurisprudential Doctor degree.
The transition of her career is smooth from college to work with communities. After she graduated from Harvard, she worked as an associate lawyer in Sidley Austin's Chicago branch where she met Barack Obama. In 1991 she decided to leave this job and pursue a career in public service. She has been working with local communities since 1991 when she was assistant of Major Richard Daley in …show more content…
She grew up in a modest family, her father was a car dealer and her mother worked as a designer in a textile factory; she has one sister and one half-brother. She became U.S. citizen in 2005.
As she has grown up older in Sevnica, Mrs. Trump at 16 years old moved to Ljubljana to attend high school there. According to a report from The Daily Mail, a childhood friend describes her as “an excellent student, very organized, disciplined, with very decent manners.” Her friend also said that Mrs. Trump always had been passionate about an international fashion career.
Mrs. Trump began her modeling career when she was 16 years old. According to a vice report “Mrs. Trump first modeling job was for Vezenine Bled—one of the most prominent textile factories in Yugoslavia.” According to fashion photographer Stane Jerko; whom was the first who photograph her, she was always very interested in “perfecting her pose for the camera and focused on what kind of lighting worked best," and that she works on herself a lot; “she was always either studying or swimming,” he