stars. One of the most influential people today is Oprah. She serves as a role model for many girls and women. Oprah has made a positive impact on the lives of many people by building homes for victims of Katrina‚ building a school in Africa‚ and raised money for victims of abuse. Oprah Winfrey has influenced the entertainment industry‚ while still contributing much to humanity. Oprah has given over $303 million to charities. She built the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls so girls in Africa
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Oprah Winfrey once stated‚ "Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity‚" meaning that luck is not the random chances in life but precise preparation and opportunity joining to make a successful or failed event. Analyzing this quote‚ one might find that luck is not what people need to believe in but hard work and determination should be one’s motivation. Starting with the meaning of luck‚ it is something that happens to a person by chance with no planning. From just right there one can agree
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the foundation of our society nowadays. Without it we would probably still live as they did back in the Stone Age. The younger generation must accept the importance of education‚ as it will benefit themselves and the society as well. In the speech “Commencement Address” at Bowie State University‚ May 17th 2013‚ she wants to deliver a message about the importance of an education with the aim to reach out to younger people especially the African American. Her message gets clearer for the listener by
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Summary The aim of this discussion is to compare and contrast the leadership styles of Sarah Pailin and Oprah Winfrey as effective leaders. Both women are excellent leaders and have accomplished much in their respective leadership capacities as politician/ activist and business icon and entrepreneur. Sarah Palin’s approach to leadership‚ personality and experience differs to that of Oprah Winfrey and it is using these differences we will come to a conclusion as to who better represents the qualities
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Success‚ and Kindness Graduation commencement speeches are usually inspirational‚ not only to the graduating students but also to anyone who reads them. The speech given by J. K. Rowling at Harvard and the one by George Saunders at Syracuse University in 2013 are some of the best commencement speeches. Rowling and Saunders are both experienced speakers. Rowling’s speech focused on the benefits of failure‚ a subject she had first hand experience on. Saunders’ speech was on kindness and included some
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At his commencement from Brandeis University in 1979‚ Mitch Albom promises his favorite teacher‚ Morrie Schwartz‚ that he will keep in touch. Life intervenes‚ however‚ and Mitch loses contact with his old mentor until sixteen years later‚ when he sees him being interviewed by Ted Koppel on ABC’s "Nightline." Morrie has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis‚ more commonly known as ALS‚ or Lou Gehrig’s disease. The disease will eat away at his nerves‚ rendering his body useless but leaving
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The meaning of life has been a very broad topic that comes up in our everyday lives. Life is something that is to be cherished. Like anything valuable in our lives‚ one must work to make this life the best it could be. In his Commencement Address at Stanford University‚ Steve Jobs explains what he believes what the value of life is to him. He speaks of the day he found that he was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer which was first known as incurable. Doctors had told him to get his affairs in order
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David Foster Wallace made an excellent Kenyon College Commencement. Rather than the boring conventional speeches‚ he came up with the idea of telling the students about the reality i.e. what is going to happen after this youth will come in the real part of life. Instead of giving students a crap of what amazing things they are going to do in future‚ he makes them realize the dark aspects of future. Not only this‚ but he also provides a solution to handle that situation. Wallace explains about the
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S. Buscaino DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPEECH What is speech according to its purpose? People have gathered to hear you speak on a specific issue‚ and they expect to get something out of it immediately. And you‚ the speaker‚ hope to have an immediate effect on your audience. The purpose of your speech is to get the response you want. 4 types of speech according to purpose A Informative Speech- An Informative Speech is like teaching. The purpose of an informative speech is to try to teach something to
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The Oprah Winfrey Network’s (OWN) megachurch drama series “Greenleaf” season two shows how a male married Christian character continues to struggle with his same-sex urges and resorts to joining a gay conversion therapy group to save his marriage. “Greenleaf‚” a drama series about the megachurch Calvary World Ministries‚ features the story of Kevin Saterlee (Tye White) who has chosen to undergo gay conversion therapy to fight off his same-sex desires. His wife Charity Greenleaf (Deborah Joy Winans)
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