ObamaObama英语简介英语简介Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961His parents met while attending the University of Hawaii, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student. His mother was from heartland-of-the-U.S. Kansas, and his father from Kenya.His childhood in Hawaii 1967-1970 in an 1967-1970 in an elementary school of Indonesiaelementary school of IndonesiaBaracks parents eventually divorced, and after his mother remarried, he lived in Indonesia for a time before returning to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.He became a member of basketball term when he studying in the middle school of Honolulu. In 1979，he graduated from the middle school。He later moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983, then at the start of the following year worked for a year at the Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group. After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago, where he was hired as director of the Developing Communities Project and worked there for three years from June 1985 to May 1988.Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. At the end of his first year, he was selected, based on his grades and a writing competition, as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.After graduating with a Juris Doctor (法学博士) magna cum laude（“极优等”，拉丁文的学位荣誉） from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.He then returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional lawObama was elected to the Illinois Senate（伊利诺斯州参议员） in 1996, In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senates Health and Human Services Committee. He resigned from the Illinois Senate in November 2004 following his election to the US Senate.In 2004, well into his U.S. Senate campaign, Barack wrote and delivered the keynote address（政治性集会中的政策演讲） at the 2004 Democratic National Convention（民主党代表大会） in Boston, and became a rising star in U.S. politics.A few months later, he was elected to the U.S. Senate with a landslide 70% of the vote. Four months into his senate career, Time magazine named him one of the worlds most influential people, calling him one of the most admired politicians in America. Barack formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election in Springfield, Illinois on February 10, 2007.The main point of his speech is change. He says：“ 1、We are the change we are seeking.2、We are the ones we have been waiting for.3、The world has changed, and we must change with it.”His speech touched a lot of peopleAfter the longest time-consuming presidential campaign in U.S. history ，he won the election and took the oath of office (宣誓就职)at January 20, 2009Barack is not only an excellent lecturer, but also an accomplished author. Dreams from My Father, is a memoir of his youth and early career. The first, The Audacity(大胆的) of Hope, was published in October 2006,had remained at or near the top of the New York Times Best Seller list since its publication.结束语结束语谢谢大家聆听！谢谢大家聆听！28