For the summer assignment I chose to use the 2012 edition of The Best American Essays.

TOW sources: Philadelphia Inquirer, BBC, The Onion, Al Jazeera, My Kind of Place (IRB #1), Blink (IRB#2), Huffington Post, Dreams From My Father (IRB #3)

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

IRB Intro Post: Third Marking Period

For the third marking period I have chosen to read Barack Obama's memoir Dreams From my Father  for my IRB. Though Obama is obviously well known as the current president of the US, he wrote this book before he was even elected senator. According to the book flap, Dreams From my Father is "the story of Obama's struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and a white American mother." My parents happen to own this book and I have been meaning to read it, so I thought I would take the opportunity to do so with the new marking period. President Obama is arguably the single most important person in American society today and I am interested to read the story of his personal journey before he rose onto the US political scene. Dreams From my Father has been highly praised and I am looking forward to reading it.

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