Obama’s Past Careers

Before Barack Obama was announced the new president of the United States he kept himself busy by doing other occupations. He was highly educated when he entered Harvard Law School in 1988. After graduating Harvard, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer, and he joined the firm Miner, Barnhill, and Galland. He also taught at the University of Chicago Law School, and he even helped organize voter registration drives during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. These are traits and qualities that helped prepare Barack Obama for presidency.

Barack Obama also ran for Illinois State Senate as a democrat. In 1996 he was elected from the south side neighborhood known as Hyde Park. During these years, Obama worked with both democrats and republicans in drafting legislation on ethics, expanded health care services, and early childhood education programs for the poor. He even created a state earned income tax credit for the working poor. Obama also worked with law enforcement officials to require videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases after many inmates on death row were found innocent.

Obama had many successes in his lifetime. However, there was one time when he did not succeed. In the year 2000, Obama made a democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives seat held by four-term candidate, Bobby Rush. Unfortunately, this was unsuccessful for Barack Obama.

Now that Barack Obama is our new president, I am excited to see how our country is going to change. I have all faith in Obama that our country is going to change for the better.

 

Timothy Treadwell; The Grizzly Man

I found that the Grizzly Man was a very interesting documentary. Even though the story had a very tragic ending, this documentary was filled with a lot of humor and comedy. The attribution definitely seemed inappropriate and very unprofessional throughout the entire film. A lot of the time, the attribution seemed very staged and rehearsed. Most of the interviews had nothing to do with the life of Timothy Treadwell and the bears. I thought a lot of it was unnecessary attribution. Others were dragged on for quite a long time, and didn’t have much significance toward Timothy Treadwell.

Timothy Treadwell wasn’t the only person who shared a love of animals. He has a lot in common with Steve Irwin. Even though they were interested in completely different animals, they definitely shared a lot of similarities. They are two people who went out of their way to live with the animals that they love and cherish. They are so passionate about what they do, and they aren’t ashamed to show their love for these animals. They also draw a lot of attention to themselves with their behavior. I believe that the public is very interested in them because what they do is so different from anything that most human beings do. No matter what opinions people may have about Timothy Treadwell and Steve Irwin, I will always believe that there is nothing mentally wrong with them. Everyone has something that they are passionate about, and they just happen to be passionate about the animals they love.