Barack Obama Referat

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Barack Obama Barack Obama is the current, the 44th president of the United States of America. He is the first African American President. Besides Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2009 and is one of the most polarised men of the 21st Century. Well, it’s probably best we start at the beginning. Origins Barack Obama, full name Barack Hussein Obama II, was born on August 4th in 1961 in Hawaii, to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. Obama’s parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii where his father was a foreign student on scholarship. The couple married in 1961, their son was born just six months later but soon separated and divorced again just 3 years later when Barack was two years old. Barack Obama Sr. remarried and returned to Kenya, visiting his son in Hawaii only once in 1971 before he died in a car accident in 1982. Barack’s mother, Ann Dunham, was remarried to an Indonesian student called Lolo Soetoro, who was attending college in Hawaii. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obama’s half-sister Maya Soetoro was born. From ages six to ten, Obama was being raised in Jakarta then until his mother sent him back to Honolulu. Afraid for his safety and his education, she sent him to live in Hawaii with his grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. Barack’s mother finally returned to Hawaii in 1994 and lived there for one year before dying of ovarian cancer. 1979 - 1994 Following his high school graduation, Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend Occidental College but transferred just 2 years later to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science in 1983. After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago, where he was hired as director of the Developing Communities Project, a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighbourhoods.

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