Soon, Oprah entered high school and was taunted for having a background of poverty, so she rebelled. She stole things from her mother and lied a lot. Her mother became furious with her that she sent Oprah to live with her father. Her life changed tremendously after she attended to a new high school. She became an honor roll student and won a full scholarship to Tennessee State University. During her senior year of high school, Oprah was hired by the WVOL as a part-time news correspondent. At the age of nineteen, Oprah left school to become successful in media. She went from a news correspondent, to a local anchor, to a host of a talk show. Ms. Winfrey changed the rating of the talk show to the highest-rated one in Chicago. In 1986, the show was renamed "The Oprah Winfrey...
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essays:
Zinsser's essay on Simplicity as an example of good writing
... he uses the example of the president of a major university writing a very unclear letter to state a problem the school was experiencing. Zinsser translates the ... essay he not only tells us why this is a problem, but he shows us through many detailed examples. The essay was written so that anyone who ...
Spring Time
It's summer time and the native forest is in full bloom. There's greenery all around. The pleasant smell of the flowers walks upon the wings of the wind and is carried to distant lands. The sheep are out, grazing in the unending stretch of beauty. The shepherd is a taking a snooze, maybe, and ...
A psychoanalytic criticism review on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein focusing on the betrayal that she felt by her parents leaving her.
Mary Shelley lived in the betrayal of her parents, haunted by her mother's abandonment and the incompetence of her father and his wicked stepmother. Her stepmother was quite actively jealous of her predecessor's daughter and resented the bond between father and daughter. After his remarriage, Mary ...
Relationships in Emily Dickinson...focusing on the relationships that she failed to have outside of her attic room and the relationships that she put into her poetry.
... it is. Amherst currently lodges four major Massachusetts colleges/universities, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, Hampshire College and Mount Holyoke ... she analyzed her emotions poetically, trying to define and expose states of mind. While her extreme reclusiveness may be a partial ...
"Charles's Freedom" descriptive essay about a person.
My refrigerator at home displays a colorful portrait of a Christmas bell given to me by a sixth grader by the name of Charles. On the back of the portrait is written, "You are the best sub ever." I discovered the picture on my desk on the last day of substituting for that class. I had been there a ...