Today in Mr. Bruns' class we started off talking about how Lance Armstrong admitted to enhancing physical abilities by using drugs. Mr. Bruns also told us how we will be having a debate on the gun control topic. We continued to go over the 50 states map and went over the Southeast. We began our assigned blog discussions.
Barack Obama:
1. Background: He's currently 51 years old and was born in Hawaii in 1961. His parents got divorced when he was 2. She got remarried and moved to Indonesia and had another daughter. His mother was pretty wealthy and managed an oil company. His families wealth was a big deal in him becoming president. Then, he moved back to Hawaii with his grandparents. Barack's dad went to jail while he was in Kenya. In his teens he went to drugs and alcohol to solve his problems of being bullied because he was the only black guy in his class. He went to 7 schools throughout his education. He met Michelle at the University of Chicago and she was a lawyer. They got married in 1989. They have 2 daughters: Malia and Sasha. He wrote a book called "The Dreams of My Father". Before Harvard, he went to 2 different colleges as well. At the DMC in 2004, he was made famous for being such a good speaker. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize for trying to bring world peace.
2. 2008 Presidential election: (My topic)
3. First Term accomplishments:
4. First term problems/issues/:
5. 2012 Election:
6. Why did Obama win:
We'll continue with the rest of the topics tomorrow.
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