Someone to Admire

Someone to Admire







Denise Berry
Someone to Respect and Admire
Organizational Communication | COM105 A02
Argosy University
02/25/2015


Oprah Winfrey is a person I admire and have admiration for, for she had determination to be great, very informative, and is a humanitarian to the world; these are all the qualities that I admire in her, and I wish one day to have these qualities and follow in her footsteps. Oprah Winfrey has always had determination to be great even as a child. As a young child, she was molested and often stayed in trouble; however, she overcame these issues and graduated from high school and attended Tennessee State University where she majored in speech and drama. Oprah Winfrey built up a huge media empire and now she has her own network channel called OWN. She started back in 1988 her own production company called Harpo Studios. Harpo Studios has made many telefilms and movies one of the movies that they are responsible for producing is Beloved which was made in 1998 in which Oprah Winfrey starred in. What makes me really admire Oprah so much is she is a business woman who has started and funded many organizations. To help promote people to read more Oprah started a book club in which she recommended books to many of her talk show viewers and has also had many best sellers that has hit the shelves many times. Speaking of TV she established Oxygen Media that produces women programming on cable and the internet. Oprah Winfrey demonstrates the most integrity and the reason why I admire her so much for that because in front of millions of viewers on her day time talk show she opened up and has shared her own life story about her struggle with weight loss in which she has struggled with that for a long time. She has also shared her life story about being sexual molested by several family members, and her being promiscuous. She also shared her struggles and challenges she faced to become successful in the media world. Oprah is “a social...

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