Oprah Winfrey: an Inspirational Role Model

Although Oprah Winfrey was an inspiration to all and everyone else around her. Oprah Winfrey gained initial fame in 1976 when she moved to Baltimore, where she hosted a hit television chat show, People Are Talking. Winfrey became one of the richest women in the United States. Winfrey's naturalist with guests and audiences on the Oprah Winfrey Show earned her popularity.

First, Winfrey moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at age six to live with her mother. Then in her early teens she was sent to Nashville to live with her father, who she thought was a positive influence in her life. Her father was very disciplined and provided her with rules, books etc. He also obligated his daughter to complete weekly book reports, and sometimes she went without eating until she learned five new vocabulary words each day of the week. In 1976, following her graduation from the Tennessee State University, she was made a reporter, and a co anchor for the ABC news affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland. She found herself forced by the requirement of news reporting that in 1977 she became co hosts of the Baltimore morning show People Are Talking.

Second, although she is one of the wealthiest women in the United States and is the top most salaried entertainer in the world. Winfrey has made generous donation to charitable organizations and institutions such as Morehouse College, the Harold Washington Library, the United Negro College Fund, and Tennessee State University. Winfrey renewed her contract with King World Productions to continue The Oprah Winfrey Show through the 2003“2004 television season.

Third, the popularity of Winfrey's show ascended after the success of The Color Purple. Although Donahue was being aired on two hundred stations, Winfrey won her time slot by 31 percent, drew twice the Chicago audience as Donahue, and carried the top ten markets in the United States. In 1986 Winfrey received a special award from the Chicago Academy for the Arts for unique contributions to the city's aesthetic

community and was named Woman of Achievement by the National Organization of Women. The Oprah Winfrey Show achieved several Emmys for Best Talk Show, and Winfrey was also privileged as Best Talk Show Host.

Lastly, Oprah Winfrey in my opinion, would have to be the most inspiration women because although she had been through a lot growing up, she at least took all that she went through and turned it around.

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