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QHSS Weekly Times

____________________________________________________________________________________Rascience D., Gianfranco B., David L., Mushfiqur R., Ben D. , Manisha B., 2016

NEW YORK--The First Lady, a successful female rights and physical health activist, a bonafide, certified lawyer, and an accomplished writer, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama has proven that she is a capable, successful role model and leader.In accordance with all the perceptions of very successful people,

Michelle indeed has been a talented, determined individual since her childhood: she skipped the second grade; she was salutatorian in her high school; she attended Princeton University to later transfer to and to graduate from Harvard Law school. This drive to succeed, this determination, emerged as a response to the heavy emphasis on education her parents, Fraser C. and Marian Shields

Robinson, put on her. Although very driven to succeed, Robinson, like all other presently and past successful people, encountered

obstacles blocking her path to success: she grew up on Chicago’s south side, so like everyone else in the area, she suffered limitations of poverty; neither of her parents attended college, and she didn’t receive and great financial or academic aid or advice from them; she even faced discrimination because of her gender and race. Despite all these obstacles, she pulled through to become a lawyer of the South Chicago Law Firm and later the First Lady of the United States.

While having her status as First Lady, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama acted as an activist for several international social movements: International female rights and education; proper diet and physical activity; and African American rights. By being so involved in the struggle for social equality and for good health, Michelle Obama has demonstrated that she indeed cares about the people of the world and that she is a model citizen and a leader.

When we students of the relatively new generation of people converse about this woman, we regard her with utter respect, appreciation, and appropriate worship, as befitting of all leaders determined to change the world for the subjective greater good.

Women in Leadership: Our Very Own First Lady, Michelle Obama