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We mustn't work hard to make others happy - Becoming Michelle Obama

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Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  It's been a while since I posted on this second blog. With my GCSEs, I've been struggling to find the time to sit down and read a chapter of a book. Every time I come home from school, there's always something I need to do and when I go to bed, I feel way too tired to read. However the other day, I did find the time to read a bit more of Becoming Michelle Obama and she has genuinely taught me a lesson that I think is very important to share. As a young girl, Michelle was very studious and conscientious. Being from a black family, in a poorer area of Chicago, she often felt she had to prove people wrong and become successful. Everyday, when she went to high-school, she would pass a tall building where people in suits would walk in and out and she endeavoured to work hard to be at the top floor of that very same building. By the time she finished university, she entered Harvard's most prestigious law school and alt

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