people do what they want to do and make themselves what they want to be. Oprah Winfrey is a prime example of not only the American dream and what it means‚ but what “believing in it” can help you accomplish. Believing that with enough hard work‚ determination‚ and ambition‚ it is possible to achieve success. Oprah’s claim to fame did not come easily. It was in fact a very difficult trip up the ladder of success for Winfrey. She grew up in Kosciusko‚ Mississippi (Waldron 13). Oprah’s troubled life
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Oprah Winfrey is a monumental looked after charismatic leader. Although she was awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor award‚ The Presidential Medal of Freedom‚ and is known for being the richest and most powerful woman in the world‚ this doesn’t account for the influence she’s had on her faithful followers. She’s had over millions people from all over the world follow her throughout her successful career. Oprah’s success is owed to the many trials she faced in her life. As a child Oprah was
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Mrs. Haas English 2 CP 25 October 2005 The Renaissance Woman When Oprah Winfrey told her 49 million viewers‚ "It just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" (Tannen) about the Mad cow disease‚ she wouldn ’t know it would cost the beef industry $12 million (Deborah Tannen). Texas cattlemen tried to sue Oprah for causing this such massive downfall‚ but she would win (Deborah Tannen). Oprah Winfrey was once a constantly abused thirteen year old girl. Now she is arguably the most famous African
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By Ted Kameron Even though Steve jobs and Oprah Winfrey are similar in their success and are philanthropists‚ they differ in their fields. This essay will compare and contrast two famous individuals: Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey. They both changed the world in their own way. Steve Jobs is most notably known for co-founding Apple Computers and Oprah Winfrey is known for her multi-award winning talk-show. Even though Steve jobs and Oprah Winfrey are similar in their success and their childhood
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Oprah Winfrey was born on a small farm in Kosciusko‚ Mississippi on January 29th‚ 1954‚ and life was immediately rough for her. Her grandmother raised her for the first six years of her life‚ while her teenage mother was looking for work up north. Whilst living with her grandma‚ it was very primitive and poverty was a normality. She would often wear clothes made of potato sacks and garbage bags‚ having kids in the neighborhood laugh at her constantly. Her only friends at the time were the animals
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book club diva‚ the supporter of all great causes ‚ humanitarian ‚ the great‚ loving‚ Oprah Gale Winefrey. Oprah has done and do so many things to support the Civil and Post-Civil Rights Movements. She dosent in fact recieves as much reconization as she deserves but hey shes Oprahs. In times of nationwide distress everyone turns for Oprahs response so when a civil rights contrversy breaks over the nation Oprah is the first one on it. She gives her opinion she supports it with fact and reasonings
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Oprah is able to be such an effective leader because she manages to maintain a huge influence on many people’s lives. 44 million people watch her show across 150 different countries. She has been called the perfect talk show host and has inspired other hosts such as Dr.Phil and Dr. Oz‚ to strive to help as many people as they can. (Caroline‚ 2011). She is extremely relatable and often opens herself up (even to the point of crying) to guests on her show in order to allow them to open themselves up
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salary of Oprah Winfrey and we can see that money clearly is not an issue. Most celebrities would use such a salary as this to benefit themselves. But unlike other famous stars in Hollywood‚ Oprah chooses to give back to people who are struggling in life. Oprah Winfrey is such an amazing woman and to better understand her‚ one must examine her childhood‚ her image‚ and her benevolence. For Oprah Winfrey‚ a childhood of misfortune came upon her at a very young age. Oprah Gail Winfrey was born January
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It can be argued that Oprah Winfrey achieved the American Dream because she was born into a racist society as an African-American girl. Nevertheless‚ Winfrey defied the discrimination and became one of the most well-known talk show hosts in America‚ if not the world‚ and the first and only African-American billionaire‚ not to mention that she is a self-made billionaire (Robehmed). Despite growing up impoverished in a society in which she was discriminated against‚ Oprah Winfrey has achieved the American
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This speech was about three lessons that Oprah Winfrey has come across in her professional and personal life. She talked about striving to be yourself and not anyone else and how you can grasp failure and turn it around by embracing it and finding the solution‚ and lastly how happiness comes when you give back to others. Her first lesson was about striving to be your own self; she talked about in the beginning of her professional career when she had a job in Baltimore as a news anchor. She was
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