Introduction – Change and Obama Last year, America has elected a new president and in fact the first black president, Barack Obama. As what all other presidents have done, they made so many promises during their campaign, in order for people to support them and win the votes to become president. President Barack Obama used the word change as his campaign tagline last year. It triggered us, the people around the world, to have the interest on how Obama has brought changes to the White House, to the
The article by Michael Binyon and the cartoon by Tom Toles make the claim that President Obama did not deserve to win a Nobel Peace Prize at the beginning of his presidency. Toles and Binyon share similar viewpoint, so they approach the subject in similar ways. Both of the speakers describe President Obama’s lack of accomplishments at the time he received the award. They both appear to pose strong arguments about this subject; however, the article by Michael Binyon seems to be stronger than the cartoon
‘health’ of the earth and economic progress. Further discussion on Obama’s attempt to improve the relation of America and the world; he promised that America will “never be in war with Islam”, but only to extremism instead. Through this one sentence that he mentioned, he quickly regained and recovered America’s image in the eye of the Muslim world. At the same time, he gives the impression that America put much effort to keep the peace in the world. His charisma and personality helps to improve the
Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speeches, both see violence and nonviolence differently. Readers can see King and Obama’s different positions in society, how they use violence as examples, and how they want to establish peace. These men, want to do whats right for people, and they are doing it in a different, but effective way. King and Obama, see things differently because they are in different positions in society. King won the nobel peace prize for his activism for human
has a long way to go on the subject of peace and is not going to stop until he gets the same rights as anyone else. In addition, King talks about how he finds it intriguing that he is receiving this award on behalf of a movement that “...has not won the very peace and brotherhood which is the essence of the Nobel Prize.” When someone thinks about the Nobel peace prize they think, of course, about peace. King is surprised that he is winning the Nobel peace prize based on his contribution to the civil
Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama both have similar viewpoints on how to handle problems, but their positions in society make them think differently about when violence actually needed to obtain peace. King is a firm believer that nonviolence is the best way to obtain a goal and proves so when he says that nonviolence is the answer to the biggest political question of the time, and he is clearly stating that nonviolence is the answer to the big problem of that time period, which
she didn't even stop when she was shot in the head with a bullet. She has won so many awards for her bravery and she has made a large difference for people not only in Pakistan but all over the world. Yousafzai is the youngest person to win a Nobel Prize. She is now studying Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Oxfords Lady Margaret Hall. Malala Yousafzai is an extremely inspirational person to everyone
helped to bring and raise hope that racial relations would improve. Since Barack Obama’s presidency, our country is more diverse than it has ever been. This is a good thing, because it shows that we are in a place full of many different opinions and ideas. With these diverse views we can learn from one another to overcome problems and become stronger as a whole. In 2009 Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace prize. He won this prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation
Third, in 2015, this political transition was crowned by receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. The successful political dialogue held by the Tunisian national Dialogue Quartet that included the Tunisian General Labor Union, Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, The Tunisian Human Rights League, and The Tunisian Order of Lawyers. That dialogue was held due to the conflict between the protests that asked the government to step down after the second political assassination in 2013 and
Throughout Martin Luther King Jr’s. speech, he uses violence as a form of getting his perspective and view across to his audience. King uses violence in order to persuade the audience for other reasons differing from Barack Obama’s view on violence. Martin Luther king brings to light the amount of damage that violence is causing in order to pursue the audience when saying “I am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young people seeking to secure the right to vote were brutalized