Illinois Senate

A humanist is someone who want to better the human population which is what he did. Before his time in office he did a lot of great things. He wanted to figure out what kept the people that lived on the south side of Chicago poor and wanted to change that which is why he worked for the community. He wanted to see the betterment of the people who were living in poverty. While he was in the senate for Illinois he launched, a campaign called “VOTE”. He got more than 100,000 people registered to vote. Not many people cared whether people went out to vote but he knew that having more African American voting would make a difference. Obama helped pass the Earned Income Tax Credit act, which cut taxes from Illinois families. He has great leadership skills and makes it easy for people to work with him. During his time in office he helped people get jobs and health care. He improved Americas relationships with other countries and he let immigrants stay in America. Being that Barack Obama has always wanted to better his country and the people in it makes him a role…

The first thing to understand is what is taking precedence on the public agenda. Nationally, educational policies encapsulate a myriad of subjects-school to prison pipeline, education gap, and the national push for post-secondary education. Nationally, education is a pressing topic on the legislative. Following the DeMarco strategic template for campaigning, an advocacy plan has been constructed. 1) Initial organizing of the campaign. As a lobbyist, the political terrain would be mapped to…

Specific Purpose Statement: To inform my audience about President Barack Obama. Barack Obama was a standout amongst the best presidents in the United States history. He accomplished numerous objectives in life. Some of these objectives were as follows: He won The Nobel Peace Prize, Time's Person of the Year,Best Spoken Word Album and many more. He likewise refined alot in life, for example, Improved Education and Educational Opportunities, Strengthened the Middle Class and Fought…

Later on Obama entered Harvard Law School in 1988. In 1990 he met a woman named Michelle Robinson. After Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, he later went on to marry Michelle Robinson in 1992. Barack Obama started his career in 1961, where he won the election to the illinois state senate as a Democrat. During his year as a state senator, he worked with Democrats and Republicans to plan legislation on ethics and also worked to expand health care services and childhood education…

Party primaries and caucuses have historically produced the successful nominees for conventions which served to formally anoint the presidential candidates on the first ballot. But in the event of a competitive primary process, delegates at a convention could have more difficulty in reaching a clear majority of support for any one candidate. A brokering process then takes place, with multiple ballots a possibility. Had John Kasich and Ted Cruz not dropped out of the race for the Republican…

President Obama’s Hypocrisy President Barack Hussein Obama is the forty fourth president of the United States elected in 2008 and he is the first president, under the constitution, of African descent. He worked his way up from the Illinois State Senate to the US Senate and was officially sworn in as president on January 20, 2009. Given his background in politics, logically, people assumed that he was a responsible, trustworthy candidate for president; however, his actions prove otherwise. His…

Barack Hussein Obama – America’s Most Disrespected President Barack Obama came onto the political stage in 2004 when he gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. Before this momentous occasion very few people had heard of the Junior Senator from Illinois – he had only been in the Senate for eight months. He titled the speech “The Audacity of Hope” to highlight the strength and resilience of the country and to encourage people struggling to rise out of poverty and…

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Organizing For Action). Before obtaining a political career, Barack Obama was a teacher and a civil-rights lawyer. In 1996, Barack Obama was elected into the Illinois State Senate and served for seven years, from 1997 to 2004. In 2008, Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States of America. Obama made history, as he was the first African American president to be elected. In 2012, President Obama beat his…

Many citizens and members of the press would note that throughout the course of the debates the stark difference between Lincoln and Douglas eventually became hard to ignore. Stephen Douglas was shorter in stature compared to Abraham Lincoln who was tall and lanky. This made for an interesting series as the people of Illinois flocked to the debates. In the painting the future president is seen standing in almost a stoic pose as if he is considering how to compose the next part of his argument.…

Growing up, Obama lived with his maternal grandparents throughout most of his childhood, due to the separation of his parents. “He attended the Punahou School, an elite private school where, as he wrote in his 1995 memoir, Dreams from my Father.” (Barack Obama: Life Before the Presidency). His memoir showed how he began to understand has racial background and the tension that came with is such as being one of three African Americans in the school. After high school, Obama decided to study law…