Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father

Barack Obama, Dreams From My returnBarack Obama in his first book Dreams from my Father A story of Race and Inheritance purports his enjoiners to a beautifully crafted trip of self-discovery. His first book was published over a decade ago and is recently re-published by Random House. It is a compelling story of not l unrivaledsome(prenominal) race and culture inheritance but also of face-to-face growth, hu cosmos experience, sprightliness lessons and benignant nature. Obama tells his fantastic emotional state story in a very surveyful and reflective way. I feel this is a story of a very wisely examined life. The fact that driveers, regardless of favorable background, cultural herit mature or skin colorize could find themselves in the story reminds me that as human universes as thoroughly we any grapple plenty of similarities and differences.Ab kayoed a a couple of(prenominal) months ago in a very strange incident when the Republican pre arrayntial and vice presiden tial candidates s besidesd on stages slightly the nation as tycoon who was Barack Obama? They had a very slowly access to their have principal if they would have read Dreams from my move over back. If they would have read the story they wouldnt have enough knowledge near the man who would coif as 44th president of the country but more approximately themselves as well.THE STORYThe autobiography tells the story of the life of Barack Obama up to his introduction in the Harvard law School.He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama sr. Of Kenya, a black African and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, a colour American, who met as students at the University of Hawaii at Minoa. Obamas p arnts separated from each other and got divorced in 1964, when Obama was just two course of instructions old, and the reason behind the divorce was Obamas start went to Harvard to pursue his PhD but did not have m unrivalledy to take his family with him. Obamas founder later on returned to Africa to fulfil his promise to the continent. A kid without his father, Obama def break an imaginary image of his absent father from the stories told by his mother and his empyrealparents. He could see his father one more metre in 1971 when sr. Obama had come to Hawaii for a month long official visit, without well-read death could be just a few away. Obamas father died in a car accident after 11 years in 1982.After the divorce Obamas mother remarried to Lolo Soetro an East-West Centre student from Indonesia, and then travel to Jakarta. When Obama was just ten years, he returned to Hawaii to get better educational opportunities available in Hawaii, under the care of his grandparents and later his mother. He was enrolled at Punahou School, a private college-preparatory school, in fifth grade where he was on of the only six black students at the mostly white school. Obama att caned the school from the 5th grade until his graduation in 1979. Obama in his pens For my grandparents , my doorway into Punahou Academy heralded the start of some function grand, an elevation in the family status that they took owing(p) pains to let everyone know. In the school Obama met Ray who introduced him to the African American community.After finishing high school, Obama locomote to Los Angeles, where he enrolled at Hesperian College, he describes his life there to be a party lifestyle with the drug and alcohol use. After two years of his party life at Occidental, he transferred himself to Columbia college at Columbia University, in Manhattan, newborn York, where he majored in political science. After graduation, he started a commercial enterprise for a year, which did not go very well, he then moved to Chicago there he motioned for a non-profit community organizing in the Altgeld Gardens living accommodations project on the South side of the city. He recounts the difficulty of the experience, as his program confront resistance from apathy on the part of the ceremon ious bureaucracy and entrenched community attractors. During this time Obama first visited the Chicagos Trinity f only in Church of Christ only to be prompt himself to do something grand in his life.Obama decided to visit his relatives in Kenya before joining the Harvard Law School. Obama uses the experience Kenya to be the setting for his books final emotional scene. Relating the story with Obamas life the book includes a great deal of reflection on his receive personal racial experiences with the Americans in the United States.A FEW racism FACTSI ceased to advertise my mothers race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites this is a quote from the introduction in the book Dreams from my Father. This gives the very first coup doeil of the racial discrimination and racial issues faced by Barack Obama right from the age of 12 or 13. Obama still had the thrive to continue and achieve everything that he aimed for.There was something about him that authorise me wary, a comminuted too legitimate of himself, maybe. And white. This is during the time when he describes a job interview with a man in Chicago. It seemed that race had been a part of their discourse as the white had a certain air about himself seeing Obama organism a black, but instead of getting de motivated and upset about the deportment from the white Obama took it as an opportunity and showed what his real talent was. And at the end he was able to win the person, which was one of his many passions.It remained necessary to fix which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and get a line names. Obama discusses this part of his life when he talks about his childhood and his schooltime in Hawaii. Though having a white mother Obama faced too many racial discriminations in his school days, which do him vulnerable to the whites.I never emulate white men and brown men whose assigns didnt deliver to my own. It was into my fathers image, the black man, son of Africa, that Id packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela. This statement shows that though being a black, Barack Obama did not get emulated with his fate to have born a black, he made it his strength and walked fore instead of walking backwards and run away from the trickyships.Despite having faced so many incidences of racial discrimination and underlying authority Barack Obama had only one thing that was unbitten and that was his never dying spirit and courage and this is what i take undoubtedly defines his leadership woodland.LEADERSHIPRecently I happened to read an article on leadership qualities and how is a person fit to operate a leader. To test the article I decided to experiment with few of my friends, on a casual discussion I asked them who do you mean can be a leader? to my amazement the conceptionl discussion turned into an argument whether a leader is born or made. later on after giving the entire argument much purview I decided to jot down few of the qualities of a leader I could figure out during the discussion.The first thing that I discover was during the entire conversation there was one friend who did not til now attempt to get into the conversation, later when asked he said I dont mobilize thats even a discussion, it was so pointless, Id rather spend my time schooling Barack Obama then deciding whether a leader is born or made it is always going to be debatable, thats when I realised that a true leader never gives too much time to such discussions he rather concentrates more on developing his own leadership qualities which he thinks are necessary for his success. integrity of the other things that I noticed was in a group theres always a person who leads the discussion, gives it a graceful flow and concludes it, this group had a leader as well, but the quality i noticed here was a leader always has follo wers, you take the case of Hitler, Mussolini, Barack Obama, Mahatma Gandhi anyone in that case, they are improve examples of Leadership and one thing that is common among all of them is they all had their own set of followers. Which I think is one of the biggest qualities of a leader, what is the point of leading a group when you do not have anyone to follow?Summarizing the entire incident i could come up with Five qualities that a leader possesses. They are as followsA leader should beIntelligentClarity in thought former lookingEthicalInspiringNow the important job for a leader is to display his skills or the five qualities mentioned above and at the homogeneous time inspiring people to follow. Below is a story of a great leader who doesnt have a name in history, hasnt made it big yet she is a motivation, a role model and has all the qualities for an entrepreneur mentioned above.How often do you get a chance to motivate? How often do you get a chance to touch peoples lives and ma ke them better?Well i just came across a instructor who made it all possible, they called her Miss G.Miss G was a happy, and a fun loving human being, happily married and a perfect husband made her confident, and lively. She came from a political background and as her father she too wanted to do something for the society, she had tried a couple of things already but somehow did not interest her, or rather the work did not approve her, not getting de motivated Miss G joins the Long Island school, Long Beach to try her hands on teaching, little has she thought of what she was getting into, she would have had night mares before step forrard to take the job. Her father did not approve of her be approaching a teacher, he thought it was too low a profile to work in, she didnt pay attention to it, as she knew she would be able to make her father accord to her choice eventually.She started off her first day as a teacher with a group of students majorly African Americans, who were engaged in gang wars, drugs, engagement etc. She had a hard time even talking to them as they had a typical situation to the way they lived. They were freshmen at school and obviously hated the fact. The first day she experienced the enmity amongst the students with the issue being the colour of their skin. She has a hard time controlling their fights, but gets gestate of it eventually. When she walks out after the school she sees that the whites are on one side of the ground and the black on the other none of them even daunted to interact with the other colour. The very next day she mixes the different colour students within the class to break the ice amongst themselves. That doesnt work very well as many of them feel offended of their colour and stop orgasm to the class.She tries to figure out for days together what is it that is stopping 13 year kids to talk to each other and discriminate amongst each other referable to their colour in modern America. And one day something happen s that teaches her the real reason, a boy gets killed by one of the whites just because he was black, she learns the fact that one of her students called Eva was also involved in the incident. She wanted to confront the girl about it but was warned by the administration of the school to not to do so as it was against the policy of the school. She still tries to confront and learns that the blacks are ill-treated by the American cops for no reason, they were bitten up, shot and jailed just for being a black. Miss G didnt realise what to say when she was confronted with a truth ilk this.She knew the students wouldnt speak to her directly in the class, but she wanted them to take all their pain and sufferings out so that she could heal them and make them better human beings, because she knew, she had hope in them that they werent as bad as they were made out to be. She then came up with this really amazing idea of making them obtain their journal, she asked them to write any of their experiences that were close to her heart. She told them she wouldnt read their journal unless and until they would allow her to. She offered them a closet to leave their journals if they wanted her to read them. And to her surprise everyone wrote in their journals and leftfield them behind for her to read it.The administration of the school was strictly against all the activities that she was doing and wouldnt life her or help her even with the material she required for the class. Miss G didnt give up on the kids, she worked double jobs just so that she could stand them with the materials that they needed. But in all of this her personal life, her happy marriage had started to go on the rough track. Thus she was losing support both from her working milieu as well as her husband. But with her determination and passion to make a difference to those kids lives, she continues to teach with all the hurdles and difficulties that she was facing.With all the efforts she was place in s he succeeded in making the class room a berth for all the kids she was teaching. Her husband left her, the administration didnt agree with her efforts and the people around her tried every possible way to de motivate her. But she was a warrior princess despite having an emotional breakdown, the threat to lose the job, no home she never gave up or rather never bowed to the situations, she kept fighting.During the entire mess up she was going through for the first time her need force was her father. Her father told her I am jealous of what my daughter is being able to do, she did what I had dreamt for myself, which I think in itself is a control force for any individual. And with the warrior she was this just added to her strength.She motivated the kids to keep their own journals, this time she motivated them to convert their journals into books. The kids already following the footsteps of their teacher readily hold to it, and after months of rigorous work they came up with their own individual books with their own stories. Their own stories of struggle and their own stories of survival, she had succeeded.This motivated Miss G to write her own book for the kids and the experience with them. She amazingly called them the freedom writers.My LearningIt is not necessary that you make it big if you are an entrepreneur, it is not necessary that the being should know what a big personality are you. The satisfaction comes from within.One if the question that i came across while reading the book was wherefore doesnt everyone have a name in history? What is so supererogatory about the people who have made it big? the answer to the question was their cognizance. Imagine what if everyone had the same wavelength, what if everyone was as intelligent as Mr Narayan Murthi of Infosys, Mr Warren calamity the investor, Mr Bill Gates of Microsoft, there would be a new Infosys and Microsoft coming up every day in every different deferral of the world. There wouldnt have be en any uniqueness in their ventures. Thus intelligence plays a merry role in what you do.Intelligence plays a vital role in what you do but intelligence without clarity of thought cannot be put to the best use. Imagine Bill Gates having an idea of launching Microsoft but doesnt know where, when and how, i think without a make vision he wouldnt have been able to do any of it.And last having a vision of where you want to be sums up to all the things that are needed to be a leader.Thus a mixture of an intelligent, send on looking and clear minded individual makes it to be the best leader.decisivenessWhether its Miss G or Barack Obama, both of them had their own share of hardships and struggles one thing that kept them going was their never say NO attitude to life. This is what has made them a leader, an entrepreneur and a satisfied human.At the end of the day it is not what you do or what you make out of what youre doing, it is the scholarship that life offers for the present and the future.Lions sleep 18 hours a day if hard work alone was the secret to success, then donkey would have been the king of the jungle.