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Barack Obama Hero Essay

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“We are one people, all of us pledging alliance to the Stars and Stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.” Says Barack Hussein Obama II July 27, 2004. His hard work, ethic, and capability for greatness have woken up the United States like no other. In any job he 's given, he works towards a justice for all. An easier America to live in. Barack Obama is considered one of America 's heroes. His history and background is about hard work, he wasn’t always the man in the chair, his accomplishments and doings are peaceful, and the legacy that he continues to leave behind is of value to everyone. Barack Obama has a history filled with hard work. He worked hard to get where he is and now to give back to others. First, he started out small. He became a community planner, then the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review, then a U.S. Senator, and then finally the 44th president. He was born from a family, he looked up to. His father gave him “something to live up to, and to disappoint”. His grandfather gave him stories to catch up on. His fiancée’s parents, …show more content…

He had struggles too. Even so, his struggles helped him to become the leader he is today. He was born biracial – his mother white and his father black. He has since moved along the Earth into different homes – not being able to ground himself anywhere. As he grew up later, he decided to visit his grandmother to catch about life underneath a mango tree. She told him about his long lost inspiring grandfather. Barack marveled at how the man kept his house strictly clean, married three women, and had three children (one of them Barack’s Dad). He was taught there what it meant to be an Obama. He met his linked families and was taught the daily life of his home. “Everything that I was doing, carried the full weight of my life; that a circle was beginning to close, so that I might finally recognize myself as I was, here, now, in one

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