TASK
21. Pg. 148 29 / Nov. / 2016
Miguel
Astudillo
Think of two current world leaders that you
believe will be remembered in history. How did history “make” these world
leaders?
Barack Obama
In my opinion, Barack
Obama who is the current President of the United States of America has faced a
lot of difficult situations in his personal life and his political career. The different circumstances that this leader
has had to overcome in order to reach his goals have been admirable.
Since he was only two
years old he had to deal with the divorce of his parents. This fact encouraged
him the wish to study hard and become a professional. Later, he started to work
as a community organizer, as a civil-rights lawyer, and as a teacher before
pursuing a political career. He has also written two books, one of them is his autobiography,
whose children’s version, an audiobook narrated by him won a Grammy Award. Once
as a President, he has worked to expand health care services and early
childhood education programs for the poor. Concerning to the international
politics, he has improved the relations with Europe, China and Russia and has
opened dialogue with Iran, Venezuela and Cuba.
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is
another world leader who has had a brilliant political career, but his path to
the Russian presidency has been done in several ways. He was a very successful
sportsman, later he became a KGB officer, then he became Russia's prime
minister, and finally he became President of Russia. He has being re-elected for two times serving
as President for three times.
Once in his role as a
Russian President, he made political and economic reforms. He restructured the
government and launched criminal investigations into the business dealings of
high-profile Russian citizens. About international politics, he continued
Russia's military campaign in Chechnya. He supported the United States in its
anti-terrorism campaign, but he opposed to the plan of war that USA had against
Iraq. In addition, he visited Israel, becoming the first Kremlin leader to go
there. Later, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Finally, after having
analyzed the profiles of these two world leaders, I can say that history set
appropriate time and circumstances to make these people as true leaders not
only for their countries, but also for the world context because they have done
memorable things in favor of the human beings in the right time and place.
Their decisions certainly influenced and affected people in their countries and
in other ones, but in a positive way. These things have been examples to be
imitated by other leaders who want to work in favor of their countries. These correct
actions have given them the right of being remembered through times by people
around the world because they have left tracks that are difficult to ignore.