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President Estados Unidos: Trabalho de Inglês

The document provides biographical details about President Barack Obama: 1) It discusses Obama's parents - his mother Ann Dunham who grew up in Kansas and worked on a bomber assembly line during WWII, and his father Barack Obama Sr. who grew up herding goats in Kenya and came to Hawaii for college where he met Dunham. 2) After Obama was born in 1961, his parents separated when he was young and later divorced, after which his father returned to Kenya for school and his mother married an Indonesian man, resulting in Obama living in Indonesia for several years as a child. 3) Obama later moved back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents and attend school, as his single

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President Estados Unidos: Trabalho de Inglês

The document provides biographical details about President Barack Obama: 1) It discusses Obama's parents - his mother Ann Dunham who grew up in Kansas and worked on a bomber assembly line during WWII, and his father Barack Obama Sr. who grew up herding goats in Kenya and came to Hawaii for college where he met Dunham. 2) After Obama was born in 1961, his parents separated when he was young and later divorced, after which his father returned to Kenya for school and his mother married an Indonesian man, resulting in Obama living in Indonesia for several years as a child. 3) Obama later moved back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents and attend school, as his single

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President Estados Unidos

Trabalho de Ingls:

Stand with President Obama and Support the DREAM Act OFA Director Mitch Stewart just sent a message asking supporters to stand with the President and support the DREAM Act: President Obama has made it clear: He wants Congress to deliver the DREAM Act to his desk before the year is out. This important step forward on immigration reform would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented youth willing to work for a college degree or serve in our armed forces -- people who are Americans in every way but their legal status. Members ...

President of the United States. Born Barack Hussein Obama on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas, where her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dunham's father, Stanley, enlisted in the service and marched across Europe in Patton's army. Dunham's mother, Madelyn, went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, the couple studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program and, after several moves, landed in Hawaii.

Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. The elder Obama grew up herding goats in Africa, eventually earning a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams of college in Hawaii. While studying at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, Obama, Sr. met fellow student, Ann Dunham. They married on February 2, 1961. Barack was born six months later.

"[My father] had left paradise, and nothing that my mother or grandparents told me could obviate that single, unassailable fact," he later reflected. "They couldn't describe what it might have been like had he stayed." Obama, Sr. eventually lost his legs in an automobile accident, also losing his job as a result. In 1982, he died in yet another car accident while traveling in Nairobi. Obama, Jr. was 22 years old when he received the news of his father's passing. "At the time of his death, my father remained a myth to me," Obama said, "both more and less than a man."

Obama's parents separated when he was two years old, later divorcing. Obama, Sr. went on to Harvard to pursue Ph.D. studies, and then returned to Kenya in 1965. In 1966, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, another EastWest Center student from Indonesia. A year later, the family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Obama's halfsister Maya Soetoro Ng was born. Several incidents in Indonesia left Dunham afraid for her son's safety and education so, at the age of 10, Barack was sent back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. His mother and sister later joined them.

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