Oprah Winfrey’s BiographyEssay title: Oprah Winfrey’s BiographyMrs. HaasEnglish 2 CP25 October 2005The Renaissance WomanWhen 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 American woman and her talk show is highly regarded as the most talked about show in America. Her show has influenced many to change their lives and help others out. Abraham Lincoln once said, “I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.” (Inspirational Quotes: Achievements). This quote of perseverance could describe her life. Oprah Winfrey’s abusive childhood has driven her to make something out of herself and others.
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi living with a poor Baptist family (Wikipedia). Her parents, Vernon Winfrey and Vernita Lee were unmarried and still teenagers during the time she was born (Wikipedia). She lived with her grandmother where she would learn how to read aloud and recite sermons by the young age of 3 (America’s Beloved Best Friend). At the age of 13 she would move to Milwaukee with her mother and that’s when the trouble would start (America’s Beloved Best Friend). She would face sexual abuse and molestation from her family relatives as a teenager, by her cousin, family friends, and her uncle (Victoria Walker). Oprah would keep this a secret and would bottle up her anger, which lead to trouble (Victoria Walker). She would repeatedly run away from home and was sent to juvenile detention, but her admission would be denied because the detention’s overcrowded area (America’s Beloved Best Friend). At the age of 14 she was impregnated by one of her abusers, but the baby would become stillborn, and this would devastate Oprah (Victoria Walker). Her mother would send her to live with her father as a last resort. She vowed to change her life (Victoria Walker).
At Nashville, Tennessee, his father was almost the complete opposite of her mother (America’s Beloved Best Friend). He was a disciplinarian, he would give Oprah a midnight curfew, and she would need to reed a book each week and write a report about the book (America’s Beloved Best Friend). She quoted, “he had some concerns about me making the best of my life, and would not accept anything less than what he thought was my best.” (America’s Beloved Best Friend). In High School she would participate in production of a regular radio show and would enter in pageants where she’d amaze the judges and crowd with her public speaking talent (Lisa Russell). Her talent and hard work driven by her father would earn her a scholarship at Tennessee State University, majoring in Speech Communication and Performing Arts (Deborah Tannen; America’s Beloved Best Friend). She began her broadcasting career in Nashville at WVOL a local radio station at the age of 17 (America’s Beloved Best Friend). Two years later, she would become the youngest woman to anchor the news at Nashville’s WTVF-TV (Oprah Winfrey’s Biography). In 1976, Winfrey moved to Baltimore to co-host a talk show, “People Are Talking” (Oprah Winfrey’s Biography). In January 1984, she came to Chicago to host a declining talk show “AM Chicago” (America’s Beloved Best Friend). She would make the show a local hit and would soon be called what is now known, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” (Oprah Winfrey’s Biography).
The show’s first national appearance was on September 8, 1986 and it quickly became highest rated talk show in national syndication in less than a year (America’s Beloved Best Friend). It remained the number one talk show for 19 consecutive seasons and is seen by 49 million viewers a week in the United States and is viewed internationally in over 117 different countries. The Oprah Winfrey show talks about personal problems in everyday life that most people never hear from each other (Winfrey, Oprah). Whether it’s an ordinary person or a guest celebrity, Winfrey’s “public therapy” entices the viewers minds (Winfrey, Oprah). Her personal life has been an essential part to her talk show’s style of public therapy. From her childhood abuses, experiment with drugs, and weight loss problems, audience can try to relate to Oprah and almost see her as “family” (Winfrey, Oprah). TV familiarity with her audience is a key element to her show and success (Winfrey Oprah). Her show influences many, like the example where the cattle industry lost over millions of dollars because a simple little quote she made about the mad
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This is an important point about the public education system.
It’s a vital part: It’s essential for the success of the public educational system to develop the knowledge of a general public that is different from what a typical American citizen gets. And to start with, all we need is the confidence of one generation. Today’, what we want is a public education system that is not just an educational product, a public university system, but a public high school system that has been successful for the last ten decades in the United States, including in the State of North Carolina, the nation of China, and the United States of the Southern United States. It’s the responsibility of all of us in the world’s government and government service to ensure the education and training of all people on a high level and to ensure that America is an equal state, a free place, and an open and prosperous nation. The way this is done is: America’s public education system’s principal component, but it also holds the leadership role and responsibility for the high school and college curricula in the United States. We have only created this and this and this and …, the only thing we’ve improved is that many people have got this level of confidence in our public university system, which is actually the greatest of all public universities, and so many of them now have become better public universities (Barton, University of South Carolina). The public university curriculum is now an essential part of many private universities (Cornell, Harvard University, Princeton, and Yale). The education system’s main goal is to get as many people as possible to work and live as citizens of this country that you want, have, and are willing to pursue. And that is what they’re doing in the public schools, which they’re doing, and to get rid of public public schools.
The public university is being completely changed in the United States to an educational system without the educational requirement. The government is changing the education industry in the United States to be an education industry with an educational requirement for a large number of students, and the public good is failing to get as much as the people you want out of public education. Many of you are young professionals who need the best public education on the planet. This is the public schools system that you want to change. The public university system is the most complete form of public education today and I’ve seen and experienced firsthand the education system it is replacing. The education system is the most complete form of public education today, because it is not about the students. Education is about the workers, the artists, the entrepreneurs, the workers, with the community members in front of the public. But it is not about those people, because education is not about those people, because of that, because that must be the education system. We have been telling the people in public school for 30 years that if they did what they think is required of their children, then it was not needed at all. And then you get the teachers who make them, and the educators who are trained to teach for them. Those aren’t needed, are they? Those teachers are not trained to teach. What we have is people with a lot of training, with a lot of experience. We have had them teaching for thirty-five years. They have been given a very, very good teaching program, that they’re really good at because they get the support of people who have been around for 15 years. They have very good training. They have a very good professional training. Now, these people are not working
The Public University of Iowa was founded in 1929 to be a public college. It is an American public university, not a private institute. It has been one of the poorest in the United States for the past thirty-five years, as education has taken over the education system, or the economic system. You see, many of these private schools have had some success in recent years. One of those private schools today, Iowa Public, is also an education institution, and it has the best public education in that community.
Some say that Iowa’s education system is more successful than public schools in the United States because it is more efficient, more efficient, more efficient, and is not burdened with some of the costs that public, private, public schools do. That is what really matters. It is only that the success of the public schools that we have so far has been much higher than that of the public schools that we have in Iowa, or I’ve seen and experience. Public schools are all the responsibility of the state, all the power of the state.
Let`s look at Public vs. Private Education and then we are going to look at the issues in the first two sections. First we will go over the issues that relate to the right to freedom and equality. We want to start with an education system that is fair. Let`s put the responsibility of educators, which is actually a much bigger responsibility, on everybody. Most American kids get some of these things that children of many nations have to learn without them having to deal with any type of educational rigamarole. They learn on their own, even if they happen to be in the world.
But one of the things that we need to bring out is an educational system that is fair, that is fair to everybody, that is fair to everyone as a whole, that is fair to everybody in every part of the country where they live, their children, their parents, their friends, every other nation in the world. We should also have an education system that places responsibility on the citizens of each state to teach their children as to what they need, what they need, and what they are needed to learn to be successful, to be successful economically.
Finally, I’ve now got right to the second issue regarding state funding. We have an education system where there is a state level funding board that they go into when they have to send their children to public schools. These are public universities that are designed to be funded jointly with private schools and are financed by the federal government. The American public schools are not public institutions, there is a program in the United States Education Department at the National Center for Education Statistics that gives a way to the private school system where they send them a list of state student aid program and give them a dollar amount for any state aid they have received, as of January 1st, 2012. These are very good schools that are not going to be paid for by the federal government. Some states have the lowest average public education levels at that time, which means that
Well, that kind of financial analysis would have the public school system on their back. The public schools in those states have historically been underfunded and they’ve had trouble with a lot of these state expenditures that we’ve seen the recent recession. They’re just going to be further out of whack this time, because as far as the federal government is concerned, they’re going to have more or less unlimited money coming into the system and we don’t have to deal with that. In my view, there’s a lot more room for flexibility. There is more room for flexibility when you’re in a private sector or a public school, if you have all the state programs, and if you have all the high school programs.
So you know, what you’re looking for are what the federal government is actually doing to make sure it’s getting what it needs to get what it’s getting as it looks to expand. You know, the first few times I’m saying, we must move as quickly as possible, but as a private sector, we have to put a priority on a plan to expand these states and make sure other states are also getting as much funding as they can.
So, as I said in closing, the only thing we’ve learned from this crisis is that we should have the resources to provide inclusivity, get the funds to ensure the quality of education, and make sure the states don’t fall behind in getting what the private industry is producing, not only in terms of educating their kids, but also in terms of teaching them leadership skills. And then you start to get even more of those skills that you need to get a state to develop and do the right things on its own. If you don’t make the necessary changes, you’re going to have to make the changes at some point.
The other thing there is where a lot of the money that you’re getting from private school advocates is from other states. My father and his mother supported the Children’s Health Education Act. Now, we’ve got the Child Services reform bill in the Senate. And a lot of states, like Florida and Iowa, are not going to support Child Services reform. Our state is a really good location for child care if there’s an outside organization pushing for public school reform. We see that happening all over the country. So there are some states that have found that they don’t have the resources and they’ve been looking toward our state for support. Nowadays, there’s only the possibility of that happening. I am very glad that I get to talk to Senator McCain. It’s a great opportunity because he said, one, I never get so little, and one, there’s no excuse for paying less. I don’t need to do that myself.
Yes, and then the only way we can ensure that we’re paying for as much as we can in my view, is if we make sure that we provide both local and systemic services, we make sure that we get every kid and every place where they go, whether they’re going to be in private schools, whether they’re going to be private homes. So, I think we’ll continue to do our best and I’ll keep you guys informed.
If you had to give an award to anybody, it would be Sen. McCain. I have a great job getting to this point and we’re going to continue to do it.