Barack Obama Overcoming Obstacles In Social Work

Barack Obama was the only man of color in a place where he worked. According to the book “The Size of Others' Burdens: Barack Obama, Jane Addams, and the Politics of Helping Others” by Erik Schneiderhan , and Schneiderhan Erik. Obama had a hunger to help the world in one way or another, he wanted this world to be different. For me the term, "It's morning in America" means a dawn in the heart of a man who wants to help the world in one way or another. Every day we face the obstacles and barriers that the world presents us, which in sometimes those obstacles or barriers prevent us to start putting in practice our dreams. In Obama was born the want to help those who are less fortunate. He had passion for the community. I felt identify a lot with Barack Obama, because just as he had in his heart the wish to help …show more content…
However, I have the faith that this profession would give me the opportunity to work with people in need. I am confident that I will be successful in my academic education and in my work as a future social worker hope to be. As a social worker to me, one important thing about Addams and Obama is their empathy. Obama can truly talk to you about overcoming obstacles and achieving goals because for him to be successful in life, he had to overcome obstacles. On the other hand, Addams might be poor, but she saw poverty in a community and felt their struggles. Having the passion to do something in life, is not only to feel it and to long for it, it is to bring that feeling and longing to the practice as these two great characters did, who organized they are today for their good deeds and their willingness to help. According to the book, Obama's childhood and youth was sociologically and psychologically complicated. Nevertheless, nothing stopped him to become who he was, the first president of color in the United