The Oprah Winfrey Show

Jersey, n.d.). The United States Census Bureau statistics found nearly 30% were living in poverty in 2011. Unemployment has persistently been above 9%. There were 90 murders in 2010 (Crime rate in Newark, New Jersey, n.d.). The history of the city, shows a decline of its industrial base after…

Memories that last forever A memory is usually something that impacts the life of someone so much it leaves a part behind that can 't be forgotten. It bring back good times, but can also bring back all the bad, horrible things that changed life without a warning. The Holocaust is an event in history that has affected so many people, ending up affecting history itself. Not only does it bring back bad memories for people but also a haunting thought about the future and this catastrophe happening…

quiet company, which many do not hear about often in the media. The two recent ones are the new president that stepped up as CEO in August of 2013, James R. Chambers. The second is the main owner of the company who owns 10% of the company shares, Oprah Winfrey. Besides Weight Watchers, early on the only competition they had was dieting pills and going to doctors for plastic surgery/ liposuction. Today, many different gyms, personal trainers, dietary weight medicine, Nike+ Fuelband, Fitbit, and…

upon the very few who manage to strike the circumstances just right, people will often refer to stories like Oprah Winfrey’s. She pulled herself out of a childhood of poverty, sexual and physical abuse, and multiple changes of guardianship and she became a phenomenal media presence. She now advocates self-love and has had numerous outlets to do so, including “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, “The Oprah Magazine”, “Oprah’s Book Club”, and several other means as well (Liberman, Gail, and Lavine 193). But…

Although coming from a rich, multicultural background, I was never exposed to the N-word until I heard a non-black friend sing it with a song. I had a basic idea of what the word meant, but I didn’t berate my friend for using it. As I got older, my experiences developed my understanding of racism and in conjunction, I understood why the N-word holds so much stock. Because of its prevalence in music, movies, and social media, the true definition of the N-word has been overlooked, thus causing its…

Introduction There are currently 106 Historical Black Colleges and Universities in America today. They consist of Medical and Law school, private institutions, community and 4 year institutions according to: Colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/hbcu. I personally feel that they are necessary for numerous reasons. Three major reasons are it creates cultural aspects for blacks, we fall into the majority as the superior races are stressing we never will,and it gives us as black…

constantly bashing on your hometown due to the crime rate or dirtiness of your city. In lines 8-11, Sandburg wrote, “And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.” Las Vegas is one of those cities, dirty and corrupt and inauspicious, but it stands tall and proud, alive from the beginning to…

Robyn Rihanna Fenty is a singer and songwriter from Saint Michael Parish, Barbados. Rihanna and singer Chris Brown began a friendship around 2006 which slowly turned into a relationship by June 2008. Rihanna and Chris were constantly seen together and they finally brought their relationship to the public. Rihanna and Chris Brown were happy and in love until 2009 when Rihanna and Chris Brown attended a pre-Grammy party to honor Clive Davis. Rihanna and Chris Brown were happy the night of the…

Selma Selma is a 2014 movie produced by Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner. The film is directed by Ava DuVerynay and stars David Oyelowo among others. The movie depicts a three month period in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a hazardous campaign in the face of ruthless opposition to secure equal voting rights among African Americans residing in the United States. From the film, I learned that the United States was at the time divided into two different…

My father Jim Duggar was by my side (Josh Duggar) in May, when reports surfaced that I molested five underage girls as a teen. But after my second sex scandal broke two weeks ago, my father called me a hypocrite. Michael takes issue with my confession that I used Ashley Madison’s website to cheat on my wife Anna, and was addicted to porn while preaching conservative values on 19 Kids and Counting and as a lobbyist. "It distresses me to say that Josh Duggar's greatest sin is a by product of the…