The President of the United States and his family

Slavin, Teisy

Sõmerpalu Basic School
Teisy Slavin
Form 8
The President of the United States and his family
Research Paper
Instructor: Kati Leis
Sõmerpalu 2012

Introduction

I wrote my research paper on the president of the United States and his family, because I wanted to know more about Barack Hussein Obama , his wife Michelle Obama and his daughters Malia and Natasha. I think that I now know much more about the President of the United States and I think that I should know, because in the future I would like to travel to and one day maybe even move to the United States of America. I think that Barack Obama is the most hated president in the United States history because of his racial.
Barack Hussein Obama
Barack Hussein (born on August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii , Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree . He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton , he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later , Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012. As president, Obama signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. Other domestic policy initiatives include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, and the Budget Control Act of 2011. In May 2012, he became the first sitting U.S. president to openly support legalizing same -sex marriage . In foreign policy, he ended the war in Iraq , increased troop levels in Afghanistan, signed the New START arms control treaty with Russia, ordered U.S. involvement in the 2011 Libya military intervention, and ordered the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden .
Obama’s parents and childhood
Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama's mother , Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita , Kansas, where her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression . After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dunham's father, Stanley , enlisted in the service and marched across Europe in Patton's army . Dunham's mother, Madelyn, went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, the couple studied on the G.I. Bill , bought a house through the Federal Housing Program and, after several moves, landed in Hawaii.
Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr. was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province , Kenya . The older Obama grew up herding goats in Africa, eventually earning a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams of college in Hawaii. While studying at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, Obama, Sr. met fellow student, Ann Dunham. They married on February 2, 1961. Barack was born six months later.
Obama's parents separated when he was two years old, later divorcing. Obama, Sr. went on to Harvard to pursue Ph.D. studies , and then returned to Kenya in 1965. In 1966, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, another East –West Center student from Indonesia. A year later, the family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Obama's half - sister Maya Soetoro Ng was born. Several incidents in Indonesia left Dunham afraid for her son's safety and education so, at the age of 10, Barack was sent back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. His mother and sister later joined them .

Family

Michelle Obama

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States.
She met Barack Obama when they were among the few African Americans at their law firm , Sidley Austin (she has sometimes said only two, although others have pointed out there were others in different departments), and she was assigned to mentor him as a summer associate. Their relationship started with a business lunch and then a community organization meeting where he first impressed her. The couple's first date was to the Spike Lee movie Do the Right Thing . They married in October 1992, and have two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha.

Malia Obama and Sasha Obama

Barack and Michelle Obama have two daughters: Malia Ann, born on July 4, 1998 and Natasha born on June 10, 2001. They were both delivered by their parents' friend Dr. Anita Blanchard at University of Chicago Medical Center. Before his inauguration, President Obama published an open letter to his daughters in Parade magazine , describing what he wants for them and every child in America: "to grow up in a world with no limits on your dreams and no achievements beyond your reach, and to grow into compassionate, committed women who will help build that world. While living in Chicago, the Obamas kept busy schedules, as the Associated Press reports: "soccer, dance and drama for Malia, gymnastics and tap for Sasha, piano and tennis for both." In July 2008, the family gave an interview to the television series Access Hollywood. Obama later said they regretted allowing the children to be included .
Malia and Sasha attend the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, the same school as attended by Chelsea Clinton, Tricia Nixon Cox, and Archibald Roosevelt, and currently the grandchildren of Vice President Joe Biden . The Obama girls began classes there on January 5, 2009. While in Chicago, both attended the private University of Chicago Laboratory School.
In his victory speech on the night of his election, President Obama repeated his promise to Sasha and Malia to get a puppy to take with them to the White House. The selection was slow because Malia is allergic to animal dander; the president subsequently said that the choice had been narrowed down to either a Labradoodle or Portuguese Water Dog, and they hoped to find a shelter animal. On April 12, 2009, it was reported that the Obamas had adopted a six- month -old Portuguese Water Dog.
Obamas’ pet
The name of the First Family's dog is "Bo." Malia and Sasha picked the dog's name.
Bo was born on October, 9, 2008.
He is a Portuguese Water Dog from the same breeders of the Portuguese Water Dogs that belonged to the late Senator Ted Kennedy . Senator Kennedy recommended the breed when he found that the President was looking for a dog breed that is usually not a problem for those with dog allergies . The Obamas added Bo to the family when he was just a puppy and he has grown into a beautiful specimen of the breed. The White House refers to Bo as the "First Dog".

Racism
A race is a group of people that come from a common background. That group is generally determined based on skin color. Commonly , but not always, people are categorized into one of five races : White, Black , Latino or Hispanic, Asian , and Indigenous or Native. Racism then, is the discrimination or prejudice of a person or group based on the racial group she or they belong to. It's not that simple, however .
The term racism is actually used in many ways. Some refer to racism as white supremacism, the belief that the Caucasian race is superior to all other races. Others define racism as discrimination against a particular race’s culture, beliefs or traditions. Racism might refer to the idea that a single race is somehow purer than other races, or that one race genetically exhibits dominance over others. Some believe that race can be a way to determine behavior and performance .

Racism in Obama’s life

When Barack Obama became the first man of African descent to be elected president on Nov. 4, 2008, the world largely viewed it as a boon to race relations. After all, if the country could transcend its ugly racial history to elect a biracial black man president, wasn’t it a sign that the U.S. had come full circle as far as race relations were concerned?
Roundup
In this research paper I explored who is Barack Hussein Obama and who are his parents, his wife and his daughters. I know about his childhood now much more than I used to know. After working on this research paper I also got the answer to my hypothesis and therefore I know that Barack Hussein is the most hated president of the United States history. He is hated by many people because of his race, people do not like that he is black. I like that I know a lot more about the president of the United States now and I really want to travel to the U.S.A. I think that this research paper gave me a lot of information.