Barack Obama

Mrs. Ledbetter was not compensated for the injustice, but it brought the case front and center that even after the tragic outcome something good came out of it. On January 29, 2009, President Barack Obama signed The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which stated the 180 days statute of limitations would reset every time an individual received a discriminatory paycheck. It also promoted voluntary compliance by employers, for example, some employers took…

Being the first mixed child in my mom’s family, I was a satan as they would call me my so called family. Being an infant and not having anyone by your side, but your mother was tough. Now being the age of 16 and almost graduated, I was furious by the stories I heard from my mother. Even the news terrified me. Sitting there on the couch at the age of 15 watching how African American people in ferguson going on a riot over a Caucasian officer shooting a black young man named Michael Brown. The…

Through out history, women have fought for their rights due to the lack of freedom and equality that they had accommodated with. Women were rejected the right to vote, to go to school, and the right to get a job with equal pay as men. Although throughout time women have protested and gained their right to vote and work, however, inequality still exits when it comes to a man and a woman’s income. Despite of a woman having the same experience and work ethic of a man, they still fail to receive the…

many vast changes in the ideas she supported. She put major emphasis on things such as poverty, healthy living, and education. During the first year of presidency, Michelle and Barack Obama could often be found volunteering at homeless shelters and soup kitchens while also helping military families balance careers. Michelle Obama has worked very hard to improve the health of our nation. She created the “Let's Move” initiative. It encouraged kids, or even adults, to get out and try something new.…

Barack Obama is the first African-American President in the Unites States. According to NBC News, in 2013 a poll indicated 52% of Americans had a positive view towards race relations. Throughout the first term of President Obama, about seven in ten Americans stated the issue with race relations was good. Shortly after President Obama was elected as President for the first term, 77% of Americans gave a positive assessment on the issue. However, during President Obama’s second term of office,…

President Barack Obama announced his Inaugural address, on the 20th of January, 2009, outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America, and as the first African American president of the United States of America. This was a great achievement for the country as well as Obama with racism and other inexcusable prejudices. During his speech Obama, in a way, comforted America about their past, and reassures them for the future.…

Immigration reform does not only benefit immigrants, due to million of undocumented immigrants live in the shadows of American citizens, praying and hoping every single day that they will not be caught and be deported back to their homelands and possibly leaving everything that they have worked behind. They live in a fear of what should and shouldn’t happen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Also more and more countries refuses visa to people from third because they think the stranger can…

This past election was quite enlightening, as it was the first one where I had the mature intellect to pay attention to what was happening in this country. I remember feeling overjoyed in eighth grade that Barack Obama took office, but as for what actually happened during the election process? I had no clue, and my parents couldn’t even vote. But after living in this country for the past 15 years, my family can now say that we are U.S. citizens. It was a huge relief off our shoulders, but a new…

Luntz uses Barack Obama as an example of a politician who uses his language in his own presidential campaign, and found the tactic ineffective because it was used already. However, Luntz states “Those powerful words help explain the magnetism of the Obama presidential campaign. His words do more than inspire. They Transform. They move people”. Luntz has the courage to state that the way Obama uses his language could be an example of “political plagiarism”…

The United States is one of the most powerful countries in the world but at the same time it has one of the worst health care systems of the first world countries. This condition improved in March 23, 2010 when President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This is the first regulatory reform made in US health care since 1965. The goal of this reform is to make more accessible medicine and health care to all those people who do not have enough income to pay the expensive cost of…