Unit4 IP: Barack Obama
Description
Being able to communicate your thoughts and ideas successfully—both academically and professionally—requires practice and style. It is common for writers to draft,redraft, and call on tutors or style guides for assistance. Throughout your program experience, you will be encouraged to find your academic and professional writing voice. You will be guided to draft, redraft, and call upon resources that support your writing growth. Although opinions are a beginning to any analysis, to convince your audience that your perspective has merit, you will need to support your thoughts with evidence and examples that strengthen and validate your perspective. Three common resources that are used in higher education and professional arenas to ensure consistency and accuracy are the use of a library, a style format to acknowledge your sources, and access to learning resources. This assignment will enable you to practice with all 3 elements. Although the process of writing at the academic level is important, identifying a connection with the topic is also critical. Finding a personal interest within your topic, regardless of what class you are taking, will motivate you to find out more, to write with excitement, and encourage you to share what you have discovered with your audience. In addition to the writing process, this assignment will also provide an opportunity for you to find connections and elements of motivation when writing.
Select 1 individual of interest to you from the following list:
Alice Walker
Helen Keller
Shaquille O’Neal
Natalie Portman
Warren Buffett
Hillary Clinton
John McCain
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Colin Powell
Peyton Manning
Oprah Winfrey
Donald Trump
J.R.R. Tolkien
Condoleezza Rice
J.K. Rowling
Julia Child
Denzel Washington
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Booker T. Washington
Write a 5-paragraph essay about your selected individual that discusses the following points and uses at least 1 quote and 1 paraphrase Use citations and aligned references.
Be sure to address the following:
The reason for your selection of the individual
The obstacles the individual overcame to achieve success
The importance of education to the individual
Tips and inspirational ideas from the individual that you can apply to your educational and professional success
How learning more about the individual impacted your motivation to succeed
Be sure your paper is typed in a 12-point, Times New Roman font, uses paragraph indention, is double-spaced, uses 1-inch margins (top, bottom, left, and right), and is created using Word.
Individual selected from this list, at least 1 source
1 paraphrase and 1 quote used, and properly cited and referenced
Paper reflects content mastery of the selected individual in the areas of obstacles,
educational perceptions, motivation, and the student makes a personal
connection
including 5 paragraph elements present,
grammar, punctuation, style, logical transitions between ideas, length
requirements, and acknowledgement of sources
Reading Assignment
Chapters 5, 12, Section 3: Parts 1 - 5 (The Grammar Handbook), and Back Matter (Appendix F).
Barack Obama
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Barack Obama is one of the most powerful leaders of the western world. As leader of the free world, he is met with a lot of responsibilities that surpass those of the United States. The reason for the selection of this personality is that, throughout the history of the United States presidency, there has never before been a black president. This is fundamental considering that the United States is more than two hundred years old and has been ruled by 43 presidents, all of whom were white, until Barack Obama. Making to this list has been one of the most fundamental and ground breaking revolutions for the African Americans living in the USA. Most of them have lived through the oppression and segregation of the African American community since the days of slavery (Biography.com, 2015).
Like most exceptionally successful people, Barack has also had to overcome some obstacles to get to where he is today. One of his main obstacles relates to the identity crisis that he experienced as a young man. Having been born of a African Americans and a white mother, he had a problem establishing his identity. His parents had separated when he was two and later on his mother remarried to a white and they had a white daughter, meaning that Barack at the time was the only African American in the family. Eventually he also had to overcome the fact that he was African American, in a country that was overly dominated by white legislators (Biography.com, 2015). Being the only African American president was an achievement that can never be under estimated, considering the history of the African American in the United States.
With respect to education, Obama has had one of the most influential efforts to reform the sector, to ensure that the students compete favorably at the global levels. His policies have captured the early childhood a...