Barack Obama

In the video “Obama On Slavery - Full Speech at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting,” President Obama explains the series of steps the U.S. plans to take in order to abolish modern slavery. He explains that the U.S. has established annual trafficking reports, giving countries motivation to meet their responsibilities by using the report as a shaming method if they do not meet the requirements to end human trafficking (Obama 7:22). He states that the U.S. will be listed in the…

were singing, the lunch bell was ringing and nobody cared about a thing in the world. The president of the United States of America, Barack Obama was sitting in the oval office waiting for a phone call from the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. While waiting for the phone call from Vladimir Putin, Obama was working to legalize marijuana in the US. Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office. Vladimir…

Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States. He was the first African American to serve as President. His story is not different from the average person. He was raised in a middle-class family where he was taught that hard work and education were the keys to getting ahead, and the “conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others.” President Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. His father was born in Kenya and his mother was from Kansas.…

Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States, and also the first Black American to live in the white house. Being the President you have a lot of influence in politics and in the media. In 2013 there has been a debate about the George Zimmerman’s verdict. Zimmerman had fatally shot a 17-year old Black American boy named Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman’s excuse about the shooting was because he felt threatened by the black teen. Being a black American himself, president Obama had to stand up…

policies. For instance, Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign was fraught with celebrity endorsement. His most noteworthy supporter was Oprah Winfrey, who joined him on the campaign trail. Some scholars propose that her endorsement to have been worth just over 1 million votes for Obama. [1] Obama also shared platforms with Leonardo di Caprio and Bruce Springsteen, amongst others. This is believed to have contributed to the formation of a grassroots campaign supporting Obama, who, as a…

There are numerous leaders in today’s society from Hillary Clinton, Warren Buffet to Al Sharpton, now in my opinion they are all good in their own way, but the forty fourth president of the Unites States who is Barack Obama is a great leader. President Barack Obama is a different kind of leader, number one he is the first African American president of the United States. The leadership skills that the president displays is charming and when he speaks in public and he seems to allure his audience…

Tyler Diltz Professor Obama Economic Growth April 4th, 2017 President Barack Obama seems to be the most debated president when it comes to economic growth. When beginning to discuss economics under Obama it is important to note that when he took office, the country was losing hundreds of jobs a month the stock market was plummeting, and the Gross Domestic Product was shrinking. It was Barack Obama’s job to pull us out of a Great Recession. Several measures show the country pulling out of this…

Presidential candidate Barack Obama delivered a speech on March 18, 2008 at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. He goes into a detailed speech that talks about racial conflicts that have been brought to light during the 2008 election. Mr. Obama had to work to convince the people that even though he did not agree with his pastor Jeremiah Wright’s comments, they can still be friends. Mr. Obama still going strong, went on to explain that while he cannot control what his pastor said, but went…

Change Ever since Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States on November 4, 2008, he has changed America. Barack Obama was the first African American president in U.S. history. During the election for president, many candidates had promised the people of America that they will make America better. Little did the American people know that the candidates only did this to get people's votes. Instead of making false promises to the people of America, Barack Obama was the only…

Almost seven years ago on November 4, 2008 we found out that Barack Obama would be our 44th president of the United States. Barack Obama has been a successful president; just like any president he completed promises, broke promises and compromised promises. Before Barack Obama was president he ran as a democrat and won the election in 1996 for Illinois state senator (Biography.com Editors, N.d). In Obamas presidential campaign he made promises on what he was going to do and change; he did keep…