• FAMOUS AMERICAN PRESIDENTS : John Fitzgerald Kennedy (by Manon and Léana)

    His childhood

    John F. Kennedy was born on 29th May 1917, in Brookline. He had 8 brothers and sisters. He had Irish origins. He went to the Wallingford school. In 1935 he had to stop his studies because he had the jaundice.

    His private life

    J. F Kennedy had a lot of mistresses among whom Marilyn Monroe in 1962. On the 12th September 1953 he married Jacqueline Bouvier. In 1957 He became the dad of Caroline, his first daughter then of John in 1960. He had a second son : Patrick, in 1963, but he died 2 days after his birth.

    He said : ”Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”

    John F. Kennedy was a brilliant, young and popular president, the first to be Catholic. He helped the American Blacks by declaring racial segregation illegal and by defending Civil Rights.

    Like Lincoln, he was assassinated, but the reasons for his murder are still not clear today.

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  • BARACK OBAMA (by Sabrina and Marta)

    Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States , and the first African-American to serve as U.S. President. First elected to the presidency in 2008, he won second term in 2012.

    In the U.S.A there are two main American parties , the Republican party and the Democratic party.

    Barack Obama represents the Democratic Party ; it is a more socially oriented , left-wing party . He lives in the White House in Washington DC. He was elected by a complicated system of delegates.

    Barack Obama was born on August 4th, 1961 , in Honolulu ,Hawaii. He studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years . Then he continued at Columbia University in New York , graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science.

    He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago law School from 1992 to 2004. First he was a lecturer and then a professor.

    On October 3rd, 1992 he and Michelle Robinson got married . Now they have two daughters:  Malia - she was born in 1998 , and Sasha - she was born in 2001.

    Also , Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

    Now he is elected for a second and final term.

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    •  Pauline

    1) Are you interested in politics?

    I am not very interested in politics because I think it’s boring.

    2) Would you be interested in the president's job?

    I wouldn’t be interested to be a president because I don’t like politics and I think there are too many responsibilities in this job. It’s difficult to be yourself and when you are president, you can’t live normally with your friends or your family.To my mind, it’s too complicated and I’m just a teenager.

    3) What qualities are required to be a good president?

    In my opinion, a president must be patient and generous if he wants to be a good president. Also, he must be intelligent, good-tempered, charismatic and faithful. But the most important: he must be optimistic. A president mustn’t lie to his country and he mustn’t be shy or bad.

     

    •  Coralie

    1) Are you interested in politics?

    I’m not interested in politics.

    2) Would you be interested in the president's job?

    I wouldn’t be interested in the job because I’m too shy.

    3) What qualities are required to be a good president?

    To my mind, a president must be friendly, responsible, charismatic, optimistic, ambitious, intelligent, patient and trustful.

    He mustn’t be shy and he mustn’t be a liar.

    He must tell the truth.

    He must love his job and be faithful.

    It’s better for him to have a sense of humour.

     

    •  Marie

    1) Are you interested in politics?

    The most part of the teenagers think politics are not for them or it's impossible. They aren’t interested in politics and most of them think to be a politician is very hard and I think it's true: I agree with them.

    2) Would you be interested in the president's job?

    Teenagers are not interested in that job and I am not either because we have other career plans.

    3) What qualities are required to be a good president?

    To be a good politician needs lots and lots of studies and there is too much work and there are too many responsibilities.

    To be a good president requires a lot of qualities but some teenagers think it's possible for them to be president.

     

    •  Thomas 

    1) Are you interested in politics?

     Yes, I am quite interested in politics because later, when I can vote, it can be useful.

    2) Would you be interested in the president's job?

    No, because to be president asks for a lot of thinking to govern the country. You mustn’t be a stressed person because, in case of error, you are in a stressful situation.

    3) What qualities are required to be a good president?

    To be a president, it is required to be ambitious, optimistic, intelligent, to master your stress and to be charismatic to convince the population of certain decisions.

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