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 Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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     challenging words:    oath, running, president, register, public, college, born, wife, against, service, important, vote, office, country, raise, also
     content words:    Barack Obama, Harvard Law Review, Illinois State Senate, United States Senate, John McCain, President Obama

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Barack Obama
By Meg Leonard 		  
1     Barack Obama is our forty-fourth president. He was born in Hawaii in 1961. His father was from Kenya, a country in Africa. His mother was from Kansas. They met when they were in college. They split up when Obama was two years old. His grandparents helped raise him. Obama worked his way through college. He moved to Chicago. He helped communities get back on their feet after businesses shut down. Obama went to law school. He was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He moved back to Chicago. Obama taught law. He also worked at a law firm. Obama helped people .....
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