Writing and Reporting News, page 363, exercise 6 - Assignment Example

Obituary of President Barack Obama, 44th President of the United s President Barrack Obama, 53. The 44th President of United s, died whileon a state visit at the Middle East on February 19, 2013. An assassin’s bullet may have killed him but his legacy will continue to live.Born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii and spent his early childhood in the Menteng sub-district of central Indonesia where he acquired his tolerance for people of other race and nationality. He eventually made it to Harvard to become a lawyer and then a civil rights lawyer championing the cause of the oppressed and the marginalized.

He became a Senator in 1997 and became the 44th President of the United States of America. He is known for pulling out America in the financial crisis of 2007 and his legacy of reforming the Health Care System to make it universal, inclusive and affordable.President Barack Obama was a statesman of the highest kind. He lived his ideals and made America a better place to live in. During the country’s darkest days of the financial crisis, he successfully pulled the country out of the crisis and made it economically strong again.

He is survived by his wife Mitchel Obama and his daughters Malia Ann Obama and Natasha Obama. A service will be held Monday, February 28, 2014 at the White House in Washington, DC at 1pm. His remains will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery together with the soldiers and heroes who died for their country. The family request that flowers and donations to be instead donated to Barack Obama Foundation.