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supervising producer of the top-rated, award-winning The Oprah Winfrey Show, she entertained, enlightened and uplifted millions of viewers for 25 years. Her accomplishments as a global media leader and philanthropist have established her as one of the most respected and admired public figures today. Oprah Winfrey is one of the most influential women in America, she changed shows on “Taboo Topics” like abuse, infidelity etc. Also she helped get a bill passed for children, and openly talked about race relation and influence change in a neighborhood. Oprah began her talk show career in 1976, she moved to Baltimore to join WJZ-TV news as a co-anchor, and in 1978 discovered her talent for hosting talk shows when she became co-host of WJZ-TV's "People Are Talking," while continuing to serve as anchor and news reporter. In January…

What is A Celebrity? Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Oprah Winfrey, Siti Nurhaliza, and P. Ramlee are amongst the names well known by you and me. These famous people are called “celebrities”. A celebrity is a famous person or an individual with a state of being well known . He or she holds a personality that is celebrated by the society by what he or she does. The prominence in his or her doing has made them famous and renowned in the public’s eye. A celebrity could be a singer, an actor, a…

It can be an internal or an external force that drives the hero away of his goal. Moreover , this temptation do not have to be a feaml figure as ther is female heros and in these cases the temptation can accur from a man . However , campbell in his book shows that the hero should not follow these temptation and have to continue his journey . The temptation that distract oprah for fullifing her dream was foo . She had an addictitio to food and cant control herself . As a host to one of the most…

from family member to family member. As a young child Oprah was beaten and raped as early as age nine. (http://www.angelfire.com/ne/lliegirls/WINFREY.html) She was repeatedly abused by family members and relatives as late as thirteen years old. Young Oprah became pregnant at the age of 14, but the baby was born prematurely and died shortly after. Oprah moved in with her father after her pregnancy miscarriage. Her father was a strict man and had Oprah under tight rules, these rules helped shape…

She has used the free enterprise system to start her own businesses, which has definitely made an impact on our economy. Many say that the free enterprise systems only works for wealthy people to start their own businesses and compete for consumers, but this is a false statement. Oprah said "failure is another stepping-stone to greatness," but many people give up the first time they fail. Oprah grew up poor to a single teenage mother, and fled from her abusive home at only 13 years old.…

Have you ever just taken a step back and thought about how much our perception of what being a celebrity entails has changed in the past 20 years? Where will we stand 20 years from now? Take a look at Oprah Winfrey and Kim Kardashian for example; besides the obvious differences in their upbringing and how they both made their way into stardom, they are also very different in how they maintain their celebrity status. As stated in Broadcasting Yourself by Drew Pinsky “the explosion of reality…

She begins by telling a story of her childhood; when she was ten years old, she watched Sidney Poitier become the first African American man to win an Oscar. She recalls herself watching from a TV at home, in the ‘cheap seats’, while her mother rested after cleaning houses all day. Oprah aligns herself with the audience at home by reminding them that she was in their position once, too. By garnering the audience’s sympathy in the beginning of the speech, Oprah ensures that she will keep their…

Media makes part of everybody’s daily life. Entertain, communicate and inform are some of the many purposes of its used. I tracked my media use throughout my day and I noticed that I spend most of the day using my phone and my computer. From the moment, I woke up I took my phone to turn off the alarm, then voluntarily as I was having breakfast I started going through my applications. For example, WhatsApp and Telegram to check any messages, Snapchat to send a picture to my streaks and Hotmail to…

General Purpose: To identify poisonous plants that could be harmful to you. Specific Purpose: To show specific characteristics of plants in Wisconsin that could be harmful to people who are outdoors, including what affects these plants have on you. Central Idea: By knowing how to identify the poisonous plants in your surroundings, you will save yourself time and money, as well as be able to avoid the affects that these plants can have on you. INTRODUCTION: [Memorize this as much as…

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