Have you ever been alone and found yourself asking why? Why is life hard? Why did things happen the way they did? Why didn’t you do things differently? And the billion dollar…..WHY ARE YOU HERE? We’ve all been there once or twice, and just could never figure out the answers. Yes life is hard, but whether good or bad things happen to you, they will shape you to become the adult that you’ll eventually be. Take Oprah Winfrey for example; she has been through it all, but what makes her so special is that she never gave up. She took all the events in her life and turned them positive. Here’s the story of how Oprah Winfrey about how Winfrey became who she is today. Oprah was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi to Vernita Lee
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Just four years later, the girl who was abused because of how she looked, was now the winner of the Miss Black Tennessee Beauty Pageant. While Winfrey was still in high school, she landed a job in radio and began co-anchoring the local evening news at nineteen. Thanks to her father’s encouragement, Winfrey became an honors student and received a full scholarship to Tennessee State University (a historically Black Institution), where she went to study communications. In 1976, Oprah Winfrey moved to Baltimore, Maryland to host the T.V. show People are Talking. The show soon became a hit and Winfrey stayed with the show for eight years. “Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena” (Biography.com/people). Winfrey was soon recruited by a Chicago T.V station to host her very own show, A.M. Chicago. “Oprah’s warm-hearted personal style won her 100,000 more viewers and had taken her show from last to first place in rating”(Biography.com/people). Oprah became so successful that it led to her nationwide fame and a role in Steven Spielberg’s film: The Color Purple. Starring in this movie led to Oprah being nominated for an Academy Award for “Best Supporting
Just four years later, the girl who was abused because of how she looked, was now the winner of the Miss Black Tennessee Beauty Pageant. While Winfrey was still in high school, she landed a job in radio and began co-anchoring the local evening news at nineteen. Thanks to her father’s encouragement, Winfrey became an honors student and received a full scholarship to Tennessee State University (a historically Black Institution), where she went to study communications. In 1976, Oprah Winfrey moved to Baltimore, Maryland to host the T.V. show People are Talking. The show soon became a hit and Winfrey stayed with the show for eight years. “Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena” (Biography.com/people). Winfrey was soon recruited by a Chicago T.V station to host her very own show, A.M. Chicago. “Oprah’s warm-hearted personal style won her 100,000 more viewers and had taken her show from last to first place in rating”(Biography.com/people). Oprah became so successful that it led to her nationwide fame and a role in Steven Spielberg’s film: The Color Purple. Starring in this movie led to Oprah being nominated for an Academy Award for “Best Supporting