Barack Obama's Influence On Making The Community

Improved Essays
Through this statement President Barack Obama is calling for action. He is telling people to go out into their communities and be the difference that they want to see rather than waiting on others to make that difference. This is a very easy statement to agree with. That change could be something as simple as voting for a politician that truly represents the community or going into a local park with the intention of picking up trash. These actions can contribute towards making the community more beneficial for all members. Once people see the changes that are being made they would, in theory, be inspired to also work towards making their community better for everyone that lives in it. This would inspire hope in everyone and enable each member to believe that there is a chance to fix all the problems in their communities rather than …show more content…
Mr. Foster had grown up in an impoverished household where college was not part of any discussion of his future. One day during basketball practice Mr. Foster had overheard his coach talking about him and how he had the potential to play basketball in college. This was the spark that led to a fire in which he broke out of the cycle of poverty by working hard, attending college, and eventually ended with Mr. Foster graduating with multiple degrees, travelling the world, and inspiring kids with his occupation in the Orange County Public School system.
Mr. Foster is creating hope throughout his schools with his compelling stories. He is showing the children that even though many of them are in poverty it is in fact possible to break the cycle. Mr. Foster got up and made progress in his life. Through this, Mr. Foster has the capacity to invoke hope through the children he is in placed in charge. Mr. Foster’s action has the potential to spread to other people and inspire them to do service and make their communities

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The rocky path “There are nearly 428,000 children in foster care in the United States. In 2015, over 670,000 children spent time in U.S. foster care.” (Childrensrights 1) Now, in 2018 there are many more children who are living in foster care and end up living in foster care for the rest of their years as a child. Richard Wright, “Rite of Passage” is a novel many people could relate to choosing the right path. Families who are from the ghetto might not have all the support and money they need for their children and look to foster care, where their children could either have a supporting family that will love and cares for them or a neglective family where they go down the wrong path in life.…

    • 869 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Toni Cade Bambara's “The Lesson” she describe a story about a little girl and Miss Moore takes who take some kids to F. A. O. Schwartz to show them how expensive the toys are there. The children could not believe that people have enough money to pay for such luxuries. They are also surprised by the social etiquette that they must use while at the store. The children feel very out of place because they are not in their shoes. They start to connect their feelings to the realities of others who live lives in varying states of poverty.…

    • 223 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Diversity Hero Kickbusch

    • 668 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Diversity Hero Consuelo Castillo Kichbusch Biographical information. Born and raised along the border in a small barrio in Laredo, Texas, Kickbusch overcame poverty, discrimination, and illiteracy to become the successful community leader she is today. Although she grew up without material wealth, her path to success all began with inspiration from her father. As a Mexican immigrant, he always felt that he had to earn his place in the United States and he worked to convey that message to all ten of his children.…

    • 668 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As I walk into the gym my senses go wild. There’s many smells of sweat, weird smelling perfumes, and colognes. I finally spotted Coach Ed after scanning the whole gym for 2 minutes. He was standing by the bleachers at the far end, watching the kids like a 6’4 tall hawk. While I was walking towards him he began to laugh because I almost tripped over a cone while walking to him.…

    • 406 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As the prized #3 recruit in the country, Cliff Alexander seemed poised for a great season in college and a bright future ahead of him in the NBA. Alexander committed to Kansas , wanting to be apart of a college basketball blueblood. During his season he battled injuries and eventually went undrafted in the NBA Draft. Alexander was a kid from Chicago, who had dreamt his whole life that he would attend University of Illinois. Looking back at the decisions he made, he realized he should've attended his Dream School and now wonders how his NBA career would be different.…

    • 999 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Working Poor Summary

    • 1232 Words
    • 5 Pages

    “Being poor mean’s being unprotected. You might as well try playing quarterback with no helmet, no padding, no training, and no experience, behind a line of hundred-pound weaklings. With no cushion of money, no training in the ways of the wider world, and too little defense against the threats and temptations of decaying communities, a poor man or woman gets sacked again and again-buffeted and bruised and defeated” (Shipler, 2004, pg. 5). David Shipler wrote this in his captivating book The Working Poor: Invisible in America, using a metaphor to describe individuals living in poverty and how they are unprotected and stuck in a vicious cycle. I found Shipler’s metaphor to be really accurate and surprising; it brought both truth and seriousness…

    • 1232 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    George Youngdahl's Life

    • 283 Words
    • 2 Pages

    George Youngdahl has taught me I can do anything no matter the circumstances. They way he lives is how I want to live my life. He came from nothing and worked till what he wanted for him and his family became reality. He did this by working hard almost every day, doing whatever had to be done, and was nice to everyone. Growing up very poor in Marshall forced him to put aside his wants and needs and work.…

    • 283 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    How does an African-American male from the suburbs of the North Carolina south, plagued with financial struggles at home and faced with an inadequate education system find himself falling in love with lacrosse, discovering the value of a liberal arts education at Bowdoin College and reveling at the opportunity to improve his coding skills in his spare time? I believe that the individuals that I have encountered over the course of my life should be credited for developing the person I am today. Through coaches, teachers, friends, and family, I have come discover many new experiences that I now know and love. Pinterest values the ability to introduce individuals to unfamiliar things such as exotic recipes, fashion trends, travel tips, or even…

    • 292 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Conflicts and Decisions When one chooses to focus on himself or herself and their own goals only, they lose their sense of hope in others and believe that they must escape from the world they live in. Sometimes, they even go as far as ignoring the people they love the most, and declining their request for help in time of dire need. However, an impactful event can be brought up in the world that changes their view from a selfish and self preservative perspective, to being committed to the issue, seeing it as the way to change their life and the community for the better. In Ernest J. Gaines’ novel, A Lesson Before Dying, introduces the reader to Grant Wiggins, who is a well educated school teacher in his mid twenties living a life in a segregated,…

    • 227 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Obama Article Analysis Arlette Osorno California State University San Bernardino In the article In Defense of Obama the author begins by stating how Obama’s presidency has been questions by both the left and right political parties. However, the author makes arguments that despite his skepticism he defends Obama by stating he has been one of the most successful presidents in American history. The article is then broken down into section to support the author’s argument about Obama being a successful president. The author focuses on the following main ideas: health care, financial reform, the economy, the environment, national security, and social issues.…

    • 1361 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Golden Apple Program

    • 484 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Golden Apple program prepares teachers to enrich the lives of students in need and show them how they can not only survive their current desperate situations, but also grow into agents of change in their lives. This purpose is significant to me because I believe poverty can be viewed as a cycle continued through generations, and that education has the potential to break this cycle of poverty for individual students, or at least help them survive it without forming dangerous habits. Firsthand experience has demonstrated to me that teachers can be a positive influence in their students’ lives and can even instill the development of life-changing abilities; though they may not be able to give these children clothing and food, they still can give them hope, strength, knowledge, patience, inspiration, and the capacity to form healthy habits and friendships.…

    • 484 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Barack Obama Conflict

    • 414 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The President of the United States ( Until the date Jan. 20th ) Barack Obama played a major role in the Military, Natural Disasters, and Domestic and Foreign Policies such as Conflicts in and out of the states. While the major fighting is mostly over Barack Obama has been a large contributor to the solution to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Since June 4, 2009 Obama has shown his support for the Two-State Solution while also backing the Palestinian state in the dispute between the two states of Israel and Palestine.-(http://israelipalestinian.procon.org)…

    • 414 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The speech “A More Perfect Union” is about how Obama says we should do unto others as we would want unto us. The speech explains that he finds the world to be against each other in way, because we all do not work together. He explains that if one person was to pull the race card, then it would be hard for us to change anything. I agree with Barack Obama’s, because he uses logos, pathos, and kairos to get all of his best points a crossed. How he uses kairos…

    • 1145 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Not every child is fortunate to be raised by their own blood and by a loving family, like most have. Most children take their parents for granite and don’t realize what other children have to go through just to call someone their parent. Children who aren’t fortunate end up in the system and placed in foster care. Imagine the life in the shoes of a foster child; these children don’t only face the absence of their parent but suffer from placements of unfit homes. Within these unfit homes children suffer not only physically but emotionally.…

    • 1098 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Part 1: Analysis of Barack Obama’s speech 2004 Keynote A1ddress The speech is written and spoken by Barack Obama in 2004. Back then he was a senator in Illinois, and this speech changed everyone’s point of view of him, and people started to see his presidential potential. About 9.1 million people were reported to have watched the Democratic convention on the night of the speech.…

    • 622 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays