Oprah Winfrey's Free Enterprise System

The United States has a free enterprise system which allows businesses to conduct their affairs freely without interference from the government. Throughout the years many people have used this opportunity to create successful businesses, one of these people being Oprah Winfrey. The free enterprise system was necessary in order for Oprah Winfrey to create one of the most influential and powerful media empires in history. Born to an unwed teenage mother in the rural town of Kosciusko, Mississippi on January 29, 1954 the odds were already stacked against her. Originally Oprah lived with her grandmother, however when she was six-years-old her grandmother fell ill and she was forced to live with her mother. While under her mothers care Winfrey endured years of physical and sexual abuse from multiple relatives. Unable to tell anyone, she began acting out which led her mother to send her to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee. …show more content…
She discovered her passion for media in high school and her senior year earned a full scholarship to Tennessee State University. At the age of 19 Oprah left college to pursue her media career. She became the first female African-American news anchor in Nashville before she even reached the age of 20. After she was fired from her position as a co-anchor in Baltimore she landed the role of host in the morning talk show "AM Chicago." Within months Winfrey turned it from the lowest-rated talk show in Chicago to the highest-rated one. After only three years it was renamed "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which ran for a total of twenty-five