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    On January 29th, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi, Oprah Winfrey was born. She lived a troubled life growing up, which consisted of her being sexually abused by male relatives and friends of her mother. She has also disclosed giving birth at age fourteen, but her child died in infancy. Eventually, she moved in with her father in Nashville. Little did she know, her life would turn around quickly; she was going to be an American television host, actress, producer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.…

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    Heal Leaky Gut Syndrome Naturally If you 're living with autoimmune disease, allergies, or chronic pain, these conditions could be your body 's way of telling you that you have leaky gut syndrome. Under ordinary circumstances, your gut has just enough permeability to allow the absorption of vital nutrients. However, certain dietary and environmental factors can greatly increase your intestinal permeability, allowing bacteria, undigested food, microbes, and candida to leak into the rest of…

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    In reviewing the contract with Marshall Peterson there are a number of elements to contemplate from a business standpoint and a spiritual perspective. As a business owner, I would have to look at the business aspect to see if a contract truly exist once my 17 year old signs a contract, furthermore, the initial verbal contract between my business and Marshall’s business. Marshall facilitated in selling and advertising my family’s Muscadine grapes at his business. Marshall increasingly upped…

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    Though out my time in HDFS 3080, I have caught myself putting the effective interpersonal skills we have learned to use. I am now more conscious about the way I talk to others, and how I formulate responses. I have learned that the effective interpersonal skills I have been taught actually do help me communicate more effectively. In this exercise, I was to choose a relationship partner and engage in a relationship assessment. I chose my boyfriend of 8 years, Hunter. Goal 1: Increase Your Level…

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    on the baseball field at school during our break in between classes, talking to each other about how we feel about our friendship and what could do to make it better. We decided that we needed a third friend because we could never find anything to talk about anymore because we felt like we talked about everything we possibly could and that we knew everything about each other, so we started think about potential friends we wouldn’t mind having as third friend and as the day went on and we went to…

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    Oprah Winfrey Influence

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    Oprah Winfrey is well known for hosting her elaborate talk show, beginning in 1986, and ending in 2011. This show was rated best in history for the kind. She is also an actress, philanthropist, publisher, producer and she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century and is currently North America 's only black billionaire. Oprah has the honor of being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by our current President. She has attended both Harvard and Duke leaving with…

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    “Oprah Winfrey’s rise to stardom is an extraordinary story of personal achievement” (“Oprah Winfrey” Notable). Oprah Gail Winfrey was born in Mississippi to her parents, Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey, who were never married. When Vernon was deployed to complete his military duties Vernita moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to look for work, leaving Oprah in the care of Vernon’s mother. Oprah’s grandmother lived her life according to the Bible, and raised Oprah to do the same. Oprah spent much of her…

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    Talking to Chuck, who was a slightly older gentlemen and very smart, really had a impact on me. We did not just talk about one or two things, we talked about everything you could think of, it was just like having a conversation with someone you have known for years and I had just met him. With all of the cop related accidents or shootings that have been happening…

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    commonly end up when talking to new people. Often I use a different tone and language while talking to a distinct type of person. My words vary, I may get stumbled up, or even make snarly comments. All of which depends on the type of person I talk to. I talk differently to my friends, through text, to new people, to my father, and to my family. The first group of people is my friends. While I am with my friends, I am usually free and do not feel constrained. Often I joke a great deal and find…

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    then, but if I had the knowledge I have now, this argument would’ve been nonexistent. When we started high school, we didn’t have many classes together. We probably had one. Aside from the end of the day, that was the only time we actually got to talk. So our solution to this was to start a journal that only Jennifer and I could read and write in it. In this journal, we would alternate writing on each page about anything we wanted. Normally, we wrote about what we were doing, or random…

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