Analyzing Barak Obama

Analyzing Barak Obama

Analyzing Barak Obama

Introduction

This history began in 1959 when Barak Obama's father came to New York on a charter flight as part of the first group of Kenyans who traveled to America. Only two years later, Osama's mother gave birth to her first child on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, where the father was studying at that time. His mother, Ann Dunham, was an originally American from Wichita, Kansas, but family life was short. When Obama was 2 years old, his father left him and went to study economics at Harvard University. Later, he returned to Kenya to work for the government of Malawi. then, Obama's life became a back and forth between the U.S. and Indonesia, where he lived much of his childhood, later his mother rebuilt his life and married a manager of oil from that country, Lolo Soetoro, a former university mate his mother met in Hawaii. In Indonesia, Obama experienced the harsh realities of third world poverty. (Obama, 2009)

Parental neglect began to strongly dent during adolescence of Barack in Hawaii, which was marked by an outstanding school career, but at the same time, but also of rebellion and dabbled with drugs that he has acknowledged himself. After the death of his father, who died in a car accident, his mother died due to cancer, Barack felt more than ever the urgent call of the blood, the need to know more about his father's family, headed by Sarah, so close and so distant at the same time. (Obama, 2009)

Discussion

At the early age Barak's vantage intelligence gave him the right to study on scholarships at the Punahou School, a renowned private school in Honolulu. Thus, the chubby little boy who collected comics Spider-Man and Conan became a teenager who listened about Earth, Wind. He loved basketball and joined the team that won the championship in his senior year in high school. He also had a reflective side that sought to reconcile their racial origins. (John, 2008) In school life he has a close friend ship with other black students; there was a peer group in which he and two other black students met weekly in what became known as "ethnic corner" of Punahou. They share their experiences and learn from each other. They talked about relations with girls from other races, studies and probably whether they would see a black president someday. Barak's friends from that time say that he never discuss about the internal conflicts revealed later in the book dedicated to his father, which highlight the problems related to their racial identity and confessed about drug use, including marijuana and cocaine. (Nikki, 2008)

After the high school, Obama was educated at Occidental College in Los Angeles and Columbia University in New York. He graduated and played some trades, including one as editor of a financial publication. Then he found a job in another city (Chicago), where change has began.

Obama arrived in Chicago in 1985 with a map of the city and a job ...