Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a white mother from Kansas and black father from Kenya. He faced difficulties as a mixed-race child, and his father left when he was 2 years old. In 2004, his keynote speech at the Democratic Convention launched his political career. He became a U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1996 and was elected President in 2008, making history as the first black President of the United States. As President, he took office during the Great Recession and worked to turn the economy around and enact reforms like healthcare reform and lobbying reform.

1. By:
Brenda Encarnación
Emmanuel González

2. • He was born on August 4th,
1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a
mother from Kansas, Stanley Ann
Dunham, and a father from
Kenya, Barack Obama Sr. He was
also raised by his grandfather,
who served in Patton’s army, and
his grandmother, who worked
her way up from the secretarial
pool to become vice president at
a local bank.

3. • Son of a white woman from Kansas and
a Kenyan immigrant, as a child he had
difficult moments. In the mother's
family did not seem that was a good
idea wedding a white girl with a black
man, but neither did between paternal
relatives. Nevertheless, Barack (father)
and Shirley, married and started a
family. When young Barack was two, his
father left them a scholarship to study
Economics at Harvard, and then
returned to Kenya. Obama would only
see his father once when he was 10
years old.

4. • At the Democratic Convention held in
Denver in 2004 Obama was asked to deliver
the keynote speech and his words of hope,
unity and defense of the "American Dream"
rose from their seats to attendees. It was a
brilliant speech that began comparing with
the famous "I have a dream" of Martin
Luther King in defense of freedom and
against slavery and secession in 1958. For
his party, it was a star.
• "Yes, we can” These convictions led Obama
to stand for Democratic primary.

5. • The meteoric political career
Obama seems touched by the
magic: in just 10 years, has
managed to be president of
the United States. He began
advocating social policies in his
adopted city, Chicago, and
soon highlighted their skills
when talking and convictions.

6. • Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois
State Senate in 1996. During his time in
Springfield, he passed the first major
ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for
working families, and expanded health
care for children and their parents.
Elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004,
winning 70 percent of the vote and
defeating more experienced candidates.
It was the beginning of "Hurricane
Obama“. he reached across the aisle to
pass the farthest-reaching lobbying
reform in a generation, lock up the
world’s most dangerous weapons, and
bring transparency to government by
tracking federal spending online.

7. • Barack Obama was sworn in as
president on January 20th, 2009, in
the middle of the worst economic
crisis since the Great Depression, at a
time when our economy was losing
800,000 jobs a month. He acted
immediately to get our economy
back on track. Since then, the private
sector has added back more than 10
million jobs during the longest,
uninterrupted period of job growth
in our nation’s history.

8. • He use a direct approach because the audience
that he spoke is one resistive so he use that
approach to persuade the audience too.
• In my personal opinion the main purpose of
Obama to creating this video was to enter in
the hearts of the viewers / listeners and show
how hard it has been his life and this never
stopped him to get where he are or what he do.
I understand that he want to bring a message of
struggle, like his catchword say “YES WE CAN” .
To grab the attention he use nonverbal gestures
such as hugging and affection to people.
Besides talking about how difficult was his
childhood and adolescence inciting the
sensitivity of people to see the video and press
attention to it.
• The time he use to make the video was cocise
an accurate , handling well over time.

9. • Obama not only symbolizes the
equality of black society, but also
a turning point in the way of
governing the world's most
powerful country. And what has
struck a chord in every corner of
the planet: live the American
dream, that dream that with
perseverance and overcoming,
absolutely anything is possible.