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Hillary Clinton Compare And Contrast

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Jesus Rosas
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05.04.18
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*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 …show more content…

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

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