Jesus Rosas
APUSH
05.04.18
P1
APUSH Long Essay
*How did the Childhood, Education, and life experiences impact who Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump would become.
The childhood, education, and life experiences of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump would impact them in turning them into who they are now by pushing them and molding them to have the ideals they have and morals they follow even now. The childhood for each of these candidates were all similar but very different each in their own way. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961 to his parents, Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. His mother was a white american from Kansas and his father a black Kenyan who came to the united states to study. His father
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As he’s stated himself “ i was raised as an indonesian child, a Hawaiian child, a black child, and a white child.” Around Obama’s fifth grade year, his mother sent him back to Hawaii to live with her parents and continue his schooling from fifth grade to graduation from high school from the prestigious Punahou School in Hawaii. Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago, Illinois, to her father Hugh Rodham and her mother Dorothy Howell. She is the eldest of the three children her parents had, her two younger brothers being named Hugh and Tony. She was raised in Park Ridge, Illinois which was located fifteen miles northwest from downtown Chicago. Hillary grew up with her father being an abusive Republican who believed in a small government and the individual responsibility and hard working for what you want in life and her mother being a Democrat who instilled in Hillary empathy for people caught up in struggles that are outside of their control. Clinton stated in her memoir “ I grew up between the push and tug of my parents’ values, and my own political beliefs reflect both.” This is the result of her …show more content…
Obama had begun his schooling at the Noelani Elementary School in 1966 and finished kindergarten there in 1967. He then attended St. Francis Assisi for his 1st through 3rd grade years which were 1968-1970. After third grade he moved to State Elementary School Menteng 01 for his fourth grade year from 1970-1971. Then for his fifth grade his mother grew concerned for his education and sent him back to hawaii to live with her parents and attend the prestigious Punahou School for his fifth to twelfth grade year which took from 1971-1979. After he graduated he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for his freshman and sophomore years with no degree and then transferred to Columbia University in New York City. Once there Obama graduated with a major in Political Science in 1983. He did however spend an extra year in New York as a researcher for Business International Group, which was a global consulting firm, obama had accepted an offer for work as a community organizer in Chicago's poor and black south side. He then attended Harvard Law School in 1988 where he excelled as a student and graduated magna cum laude which means with high honors and even winning the election for president of the Harvard Law Review for the academic year of 1990-1991. Hillary Clinton attended Eugene Field Elementary School in Park Ridge, illinois from
Hilary Clinton was born on October 26th, 1947 in Chicago Illinois to Hugh E. Rodham and Dorothy Howell Rodham. She was raised in Park Ridge Illinois with her two siblings Tony Rodham and Hugh Rodham. Clinton attended Wellesley College and soon Yale University to earn her law degree. In between taking college courses, she was heavily involved in various jobs such as working on U.S. Senator Walter Mondale’s sub-committee for migrant workers in 1971 and taking part in western states for the campaign of the democratic presidential nominee, George McGovern, in 1972. Graduating in 1973, she went on to enrolling in Yale Child Study Center to study children and medicine, later earning a post-graduate year of study.
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August fourth. Obama studied at Harvard Law School, he has an undergraduate degree in Political Science and became a community organizer in Harlem. In 1990 he was elected president of the Harvard Law Review journal and was also the first African American to work in the post. Obama’s political supporters come from a diverse range of ethnicities and economic backgrounds, which is rare in American politics. Additionally minority candidates have not done well in voting where predominantly non-minority vote significantly more, even before the election Obama grew in popularity and become a star in the Democratic Party, significantly because if his ethnicity and where he comes from and who he represents. When Obama sought out for a seat in the U.S. Senate some of his supporters said he was aiming too high and he wouldn’t make it, however, he proved them wrong by taking fifty three percent of the vote and
Michelle Obama was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Michelle Obama was in a gifted program which is where she learned French (Michelle Obama Biography). When Michelle Obama was in high school, she was the student government treasurer. When Michelle Obama graduated high school, she was the salutatorian. Michelle Obama then went to Princeton University and earned a bachelor's degree in Sociology in 1985.
Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii. He graduated from a high school in Hawaii then went on to many different colleges. After college he became a professor for constitutional law at the University of Chicago. In 2004 he became one of the United States senators. In 2007 he started his journey to becoming the first african american to become president of the United States. He ran into trouble with running for president when his old time pastor spoke about race regulation in the United States. Senator Barack Obama wrote his speech A More Perfect Union in Reading the World, and he was responding to what Reverend Jeremiah Wright his long-time pastor had said and about the racism in this country. Obama use pathos, ethos, and logos throughout his entire speech. Wright had talked about in one of his sermons how the government had created HIV to get rid of all the colored people. His sermon went viral and people used his sermon against obama in his election for president. Obama wrote his speech to explain to the people why he disagreed with Wright and the racial divide in the United States.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in Park Ridge, Illinois, a suburb 15 mile NW of Chicago. She was the oldest of three children, having two younger brothers. Hillary was very young when she became active in politics. She attended young Republican groups and campaigned for Barry Goldwater in 1964. She attended Wellesley College, where she was active in student politics and elected senior class president. After graduating in 1969, she went on to attend Yale Law School, where she met Bill Clinton. After graduating with honors from Yale in 1973, she enrolled at the Yale Child Study Center. This is where she took courses for children and medicine and completed one post-graduate year
Michelle Obama was born and raised in Chicago Illinois. Her maiden name is Michelle LaVaughn Robinson. While in school Michelle did very well, she was able to skip second grade and graduated top of her class. She attended Princeton University and then Harvard Law School. During summers she worked at Sidly Austin Law Firm, upon graduation she was offered a full time position. There she met Barack Obama. On October 3rd 1992, Michelle and Barack married. They had two kids, Malia and Natasha. After marriage Barack started his political career, winning the Illinois Senate State seat. While Barack was away in Springfield, Michelle took a job at the University of Chicago. During this time she found ways for college students to become more involved
President Obama attended prestigious High School name Punahou School from the fifth grade until he graduated from high school. President Obama was good student not outstanding student. President Obama Also played varsity basketball for his high school and has gone on records and said he has some experience with drug and alcohol. President Obama had many obstacle to overcome as young black men in an America and against all odds overcame them
American presidential election of 2016 was a few weeks ago, many are scratching their heads following the outcome result. Many, including myself are, asking the question who voted to bring Trump into office? No the better question is who did not vote to keep Trump out of the office. This must have been the same feelings and questions people had in the election of 1968 with Nixon, as the options they were left with to choose was not one of which many were enthused about. Richard Milhous Nixon born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. (Biography.com Editors, paragraph 2) Donald John Trump, born in June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York. Both were one of five Children of their families. (Biography.com Editors, paragraph 2). In both of their of biographies, Nixon attended Duke University and earned a degree in law but Trump attended Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with a degree in economics. What lead these two in to politic and clinching the title of the presidency as “Law and Order candidates.
President Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu Hawaii, August 4, 1961. Obama lived with his mother and father for a short period of time until his father left when he was around the age of two.Obama didn 't really have a relationship with his father . When Obama was little growing up without his father was a struggle for him.When Obama was 10 he moved back to Hawaii to live with his Grandparents,While living with his grandparents, He enrolled in the esteemed Punahou Academy. Obama excelled in basketball and graduated with academic honors in 1979.After high school, Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. After working in the business sector for two years, Obama moved to Chicago in 1985. There, he worked on the impoverished South Side as a community organizer for low-income residents in the Roseland and the Altgeld Gardens communities.
Born in Chicago, Hillary Clinton grew up in a middle-class family living in the suburbs of Illinois. Clinton first attended Wellesley College, then continued her education at Yale. In 1972 Hillary Clinton was one of 27 women in her graduating class, with a degree in Law she moved to Arkansas. While in Arkansas she became a member of the Arkansas University faculty, teaching law. After becoming first lady in 1992, Clinton spent her time fighting for children and women’s rights, working with CHIP to provide affordable healthcare. In 2000 Clinton served as the first female senator of New York. (Everything You need to Know About Hillary Clinton). In 2008 Clinton decided to run for presidency but later suspended her campaign after the majority went to Barrack Obama. When Obama was elected, he nominated her for the position of Secretary of State which she took in 2009 (Hillary Clinton Biography).
Hillary Rodham Clinton was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois in 1947. Hillary was brought up in a time when America was still run by traditional values and women mostly stayed at home and were house wives. However, Hillary Clinton succeeded in being a woman who did not let the traditional values of the people around her stop her from making a change and from an early age, she showed qualities of a leader. Her father, who was general a traditionalist, too believed that Hillary would succeed in all her doings and encouraged her to work hard and not let the fact that she was a female stop her from achieving her goals. Therefore, after attaining her early education, she attended Wellesley College and then also graduated from the Yale School of Law. Thereafter, she got a job as a Congressional legal counsel in Arkansas, and also got married to Bill Clinton. Although, she had done quite a lot even before her marriage, her new life with Bill Clinton and their support for each other opened another chapter in Hillary's success story.
To begin with, Hillary Clinton has been concentrated on structuring her credentials by becoming the leader of the United States in the elections of November 8th, 2016. She was the first child and only girl of her family, she was born in Chicago, Illinois. Around her third birthday, the family decided to move houses in the suburb Ridge Park. While, living in the neighborhood from then on, she attended public schools, but her high school was pure white people. As a kid, she
Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii. He is of mixed parentage: his father, a black African born in Kenya, while his mother, a white American that came from Kansas.
rise from humble beginnings and succeed through hard work. Having a look at Barack Obama's life, it is hard to deny that he is living his very own American Dream. Born as a child of an African-American father and a white mother who have separated in his early years, he grew up modestly in the state of Hawaii as well as in Jakarta, a city in Indonesia. Due to numerous scholarships Obama made it into the Ivy leagues as he graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama became an Illinois State Senator and inaugurated as the
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. He went to Harvard Law School. After his graduation, continued his legal work as a civil rights lawyer and a professor teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. He served there for three terms (1996-2004). Later on, he started his campaign in 2007 for the presidential election in 2008. He won the presidential election against John McCain, his Republican opponent and started serving in the office in January 20, 2009. He became the 44th President of The United States of America. He is more well-known for being the first African-American who ever served in The White House.