Profile Paper: Hilary Clinton

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Profile Paper: Hilary Clinton

When we first were asked to write about an American politicians, the first one that always come to my mind are Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin, because of all their achievement and characteristics as good politicians and charismatic human beings, but we need to write about a”living” politician of the nowadays United States. My choice is Hilary Clinton, a Candidate to presidency, who was a Secretary of State and a Senator before that. For me she is a strong woman, fighting men’s political battles and trying to create a balance in her personal life as a wife and mother. To Write about Hilary Clinton, I went through her husband biography, former president Bill Clinton, and even her daughter biography: Chelsea Clinton.

She was an avid Republican since her Freshman years, In 1969, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, with departmental honors in political science, she became the first student in Wellesley College history to deliver its commencement address, Her speech received a standing ovation lasting seven minutes. Later on she entered Yale Law school where she received her Juris Doctor in 1972. She was active in Childhood matters, she began a year of postgraduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center.[50] Her first scholarly article, "Children Under the Law", was published in the Harvard Educational Review in late 1973. Discussing the new children 's rights movement, it stated that "child citizens" were "powerless individuals" and argued that children should not be considered equally incompetent from birth to attaining legal age, but that instead courts should presume competence except when there is evidence. Same time she was a big supporter of political views, sharing this enthusiasm with who by then was her boyfriend Bill Clinton who she met during her studies in