Презентация по английскому языку по теме "Барак Обама: биография"

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States.

Born: August 4, 1961 (Hawaii)

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Height: 6′ 1″ (1. 87m)

Family: wife Michelle, 2 daughters Malia and Sasha

Parents: Barack Obama, Sr. (from Kenya) and Ann Dunham (from Kansas)

Parents:Stanley Ann Dunham, (Kenia) Barack Obama, Sr. (Kansas)

Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class

His parents separated when he was two years old and then divorced in 1964

When Obama was 21, his father died in automobile accident.

His mother died from ovarian cancer in 1995.

Obama has seven half-siblings from his Kenyan father’s family, six of them are alive

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BARACK OBAMA

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States .

Born: August 4, 1961 (Hawaii)

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Height: 6′ 1″ (1.87m)

Family: wife Michelle, 2 daughters Malia and Sasha

Parents: Barack Obama, Sr. (from Kenya) and Ann Dunham (from Kansas)

• Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States . Born: August 4, 1961 (Hawaii) Zodiac Sign: Leo Height: 6′ 1″ (1.87m) Family: wife Michelle, 2 daughters Malia and Sasha Parents: Barack Obama, Sr. (from Kenya) and Ann Dunham (from Kansas)

• Parents: Stanley Ann Dunham ,(Kenia) Barack Obama, Sr. (Kansas)
• Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class
• His parents separated when he was two years old and then divorced in 1964
• When Obama was 21, his father died in automobile accident.
• His mother died from ovarian cancer in 1995.
• Obama has seven half-siblings from his Kenyan father’s family, six of them are alive

• Education:
• Primary local schools in Jakarta
• Punahou college preparatory school
• Occidental College (2 years, transferred to Columbia University )
• Harvard Law School

• He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree.
• He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School

• Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until November 2008, when he resigned after his election to the presidency .

FAMILY

Wife Michelle Robinson

Two daughters:

Malia Ann , 1998

Natasha

( « Sasha »),2001

• He worked as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988.
• He helped set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants’ rights organization in Altgeld Gardens

• Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996.
• sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low-income workers,
• negotiated welfare reform
• promoted increased subsidies for childcare
• In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee

• Obama was a founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife, Michelle, became the founding executive director of Public Allies Chicago in early 1993.

• He began his run for the presidency in February 2007.
• After a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton , he won his party's nomination.
• In the 2008 general election , he defeated Republican candidate John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.

Political career: 1996–2008

State legislator: 1997–2004

• In May 2002, Obama commissioned a poll to assess his prospects in a 2004 U.S. Senate race:
• began raising funds
• lined up political media consultant David Axelrod
• formally announced his candidacy in January 2003.

• In July 2004, Obama wrote and delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
• He spoke about changing the U.S. government’s economic and social priorities
• He criticized heavily partisan views of the electorate and asked Americans to find unity

Obama as a senator

• Obama was sworn in as a senator on January 4, 2005.
• He was characterized as a « Loyal Democrat »
• Obama
• 1)voted in favor of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and cosponsored the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act
• 2) supported a related bill, the Secure Fence Act

• On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield , Illinois .

• Obama sponsored legislation that would have required nuclear plant owners to notify state and local authorities of radioactive leaks

• Throughout the campaign, Obama emphasized the issues of :
• rapidly ending the Iraq War
• increasing energy independence
• providing universal health care

• Obama sponsored an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act adding safeguards for personality disorder military discharges
• He sponsored the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act supporting divestment of state pension funds from Iran’s oil and gas industry, which has not passed committee

• Obama also sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program providing one year of job protection for family members caring for soldiers with combat-related injuries.

Obama is left-handed.

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• Obama proceeded to focus on the general election campaign against Senator John McCain , the presumptive Republican nominee, in the lead up to the Democratic National Convention

• In November, Obama won the presidency with 52.9% of the popular vote to McCain’s 45.7%, and 365 electoral votes to 173, to become the first African American president, as well as the first born in Hawaii

• Obama won easily in states with high urbanization and education level, the most difficult were states, where rural population prevails, for example, Western Virginia.Obama also gained victory in traditionally Republican states like Alyaska.

• The inauguration of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President took place on January 20, 2009 I
• In time of his inauguration Obama confused with the words.He said the word « faithfully » instead of « right », so he had unofficial reinauguration a day after.

• Barack Obama as a President

2009

• In January,22 wrote a direction of closing a prison for those who is suspected in terrorism on American military base.
• Created an anticrisis program that was approved by Senate.
• On February 18announced that the U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan would be boosted by 17,000.
• On February 27, 2009, Obama declared that combat operations would end in Iraq within 18 months

Political positions

• Barack Obama supports «Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act » even late abortions
• For environment, Obama proposed a cap and trade auction system to restrict carbon emissions and a ten year program of investments in new energy sources to reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil
• On taxation, his plan would eliminate taxes for senior citizens with incomes of less than $50,000 a year, raise income taxes for those making over $250,000

• In foreign affairs, Obama was an early opponent of the George W. Bush administration’s policies on Iraq.
• On October 2, 2002, the day President Bush and Congress agreed on the joint resolution authorizing the Iraq War, Obama addressed the first high-profile Chicago anti-Iraq War rally, and spoke out against the war.
• He addressed another anti-war rally in March 2003 and told the crowd that “it’s not too late” to stop the war.

• Obama favors ending development of new nuclear weapons, reducing the current U.S. nuclear stockpile, enacting a global ban on production of fissile material
• Hr is seeking negotiations with Russia in order to make it less necessary to have ICBMs on high-alert status.

Obama uses high

technologies to be

closer to his

electorate.

He has got his

web-site and

a blog on

myspace.com.

Both are

translated on

several

languages.

You see, people

love their President

just because

he is what is.

Sincerity is the

main

feature of his

speeches .

Three principles that are critical in any reform effort:

• Reducing Costs — rising healthcare costs are crushing the budgets of governments, businesses, individuals and families and they must be brought under control
• Guaranteeing Choice — americans must have the freedom to keep whatever doctor and healthcare plan they have, or to select a new doctor or healthcare plan if they choose
• Ensuring Affordable Care for All — all Americans must have quality and affordable health care