Oprah Winfrey's Accomplishments

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Oprah Winfrey was fired from her job as a news reporter and she got put on a morning show and it blew up. "Evening news reporter Oprah Winfrey couldn't help but get emotionally invested in her stories. The producer of Baltimore's WJZ- TV got fed up and pulled her off the air" (“17 People Who Were”). Oprah was fired because she was getting too emotionally invested but later she became one of the most successful women in the world. Oprah was thought she was not going be a good tv person just like how Theseus was doubted by King Minos, King Minos thought that theseus would run away and give up and not wanna fight the minotaur.

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