Barack Obama Journey

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The Journey to the White House: Barack Obama Whenever a new president of the United States is elected, history is made. But never has it been made so dramatically as it was on November 4, 2008, when American’s voters chose Barack Obama as our 44th president. With his election into the White House, Obama defeated much apprehension by becoming the first African American president of the nation. So how does a man become the leader of one of the most powerful nations on earth and break all odds along the way? Barack Obama explains with the following quote: “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress” (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors /b/barack_obama_2.html). The following essay will describe the path taken by Barack Obama, and his journey from the beaches of Hawaii, to the island nation of Indonesia, and from the streets…show more content…
It was here that won his first election, despite of racial apprehension. He became the first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review, an influential, student-run journal. Not only did Obama learn what it takes to become a great lawyer and win elections, but also the experience taught him to have “enough confidence and security to pursue your dreams and give something back” (Sullivan 42-43). After graduating from Harvard Law in 1991, Barack Obama returned to Chicago and eagerly pursued his career. His first project was a drive that registered over 150,000 black voters, which ultimately elected Democrat Carol Moseley Braun as the first black female senator. Although he received nearly a thousand offers to practice law before he graduated, he signed on the small civil rights firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He also took a position at the University of Chicago Law School to teach constitutional law, where he would continue to lecture until 2004 (Sullivan

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