Obama英语简介PPT课件

1、Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961第1页/共27页His 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.第2页/共27页His childhood in Hawaii第3页/共27页elementary

2、 school of Indonesia第4页/共27页Baracks parents eventually divorced, and after his mother remarried, he lived in Indonesia for a time before returning to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.第5页/共27页He became a member of basketball term when he studying in the middle school of Honolulu.第6页/共27页 In 1979，

3、he graduated from the middle school。第7页/共27页He later moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.第8页/共27页第9页/共27页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

4、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.第10页/共27页Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. At the e

5、nd 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.第11页/共27页He then returned to Chicago to practice as a

6、civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law第12页/共27页Obama 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

7、 US Senate.第13页/共27页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.第14页/共27页A few months later, he was elected to the U.S. Senate with a

8、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 Februar

9、y 10, 2007.第15页/共27页第16页/共27页第17页/共27页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.”第18页/共27页His speech touched a lot of people第19页/共27页After the longest time-consum

10、ing presidential campaign in U.S. history ，he won the election and took the oath of office (宣誓就职)at January 20, 2009第20页/共27页Barack 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