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In August 1981, when he was 20 years old, Barack arrived in New York to study political science and international relations at Columbia as a junior transfer student. After finding a place to live, he acclimated himself to the city, finding it a far different place from Los Angeles and certainly poles apart from Honolulu. New York City dazzled him; the beauty and the ugliness, the excess and the noise, the wealth and poverty all amazed him. In his memoir, Dreams from My Father, Barack writes of the citys allure and tis power to corrupt. With the stock boom of the 1980s, he noticed that men and women barely out of their twenties were already enjoying great wealth. (Page: 31, 32 -COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISM IN CHICAGO / BARACK OBAMA), posted by Sopha
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 03:37:39 +0000

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