...movement that advocated for social recognition of the black artists in America. This provided the artists with a platform for expressing their talents through music, writings, and visual artworks on issues related to social, political, and economic conditions facing the blacks in America. Therefore, this research paper will examine the life history of two famous African American artists in history. The analysis will consider their early lives, education backgrounds and their contributions that led to their social recognition. The research will end with the comparison of the two personalities and come up with a conclusion. The two personalities examined in the research paper are Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey is one of the most renowned actress, African American Television host, philanthropist and producer. She hosts a multi award winning television talk show that has grown to become one of the highest television program viewed globally. Additionally, Oprah Winfrey is one of the most influential women in the world who has the ability to touch other and influence behavior change. Oprah was at first named Orpha, which was later changed to Oprah because of her...
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...Donelle Kates Professor English ENGL 1101 - 930 11 Feb 2016 Summary and Response Essay ( create own title) Oprah Winfrey impact can not be measured in words, She has influenced millions across the globe through the power of words. Touching the hearts and souls of her admirers through her; T.V. show ( The Oprah Winfrey Show), book clubs, movies, broad way, charity work, and her own magazine ( O magazine). Carmen Wong Ulrich wrote “On a seismic scale of impact, Ms. Winfrey is a 10, with aftershocks felt at both poles. This is how her influence stacks up.” According to CNNMoney.com in January of 2006, Oprah ranked second only to Google as the biggest brand newsmaker of 2006. Behind her was Amazon, ebay, and iPod. Oprah Winfrey is our modern day Moses, chosen by an higher power bless with a gift to influence an entire culture with charisma, charm, and elegance. Oprah Winfrey life is bigger than herself, she extends her hand and opened doors for her own protégés. Dr. Phil success has taken on a life of it’s own, his talk show became the second highest rated talk show along with eight best-selling books. Others gained enormous notoriety being associated with Ms. Winfrey, interior designer Nate Berkus, with his own home line at Linens ‘N Things; Bob Greene, Oprah’s personal trainer and fitness guru; Suze Orman money diva; Mehmet Oz, M.D., health guru; and her two newest additions, Robin Smith, love and relationship psychologist, and Rachael Ray, TV chef and magazine powerhouse in her...
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...Role Model Review- Oprah Winfrey Date: July 24, 2012 Class: CWV-101 Christian Worldview Instructor: Dr. Scott Hovater Role Model Review- Oprah Winfrey When asked to write a Role Model review I knew exactly who I wanted to write about and then I read the instructions that it had to be someone that was relatively well known. This made this assignment a little harder for me and a little more challenging. When going through and looking at other people that I could use as a Role Model I chose to do it on Oprah Winfrey. I picked Oprah because she is a person that is always looking to help someone out that is in need of help no matter what the conditions are that she has to deal with in the enviroment to get these people the help they need. In this review I am hoping to tell you a little about Oprah and her beliefs and what I feel her Worldview is. Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 and lives in Montecito CA. She lives with her partner Stedman Graham. Oprah is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. She is best known for her multi award winning talk show. The Oprah Winfrey show was the highest ranked show of its kind and was nationally syndicated from 1986-2011. (Press Release, 2004) She is now owner and CEO of the Oprah Winfrey Network. During her life as a Actress she was in the movie The Color Purple, the movie Beloved. She did documentaries and movies...
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...Date: July 24, 2012 Class: CWV-101 Christian Worldview Instructor: Dr. Scott Hovater Role Model Review- Oprah Winfrey When asked to write a Role Model review I knew exactly who I wanted to write about and then I read the instructions that it had to be someone that was relatively well known. This made this assignment a little harder for me and a little more challenging. When going through and looking at other people that I could use as a Role Model I chose to do it on Oprah Winfrey. I picked Oprah because she is a person that is always looking to help someone out that is in need of help no matter what the conditions are that she has to deal with in the enviroment to get these people the help they need. In this review I am hoping to tell you a little about Oprah and her beliefs and what I feel her Worldview is. Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 and lives in Montecito CA. She lives with her partner Stedman Graham. Oprah is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. She is best known for her multi award winning talk show. The Oprah Winfrey show was the highest ranked show of its kind and was nationally syndicated from 1986-2011. (Press Release, 2004) She is now owner and CEO of the Oprah Winfrey Network. During her life as a Actress she was in the movie The Color Purple, the movie Beloved. She did documentaries and movies for HBO. She was also...
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...Life Span Development and Personality xxxxxxxxx PSY 300 – General Psychology xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Life Span Development and Personality “Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.” (Henry, 2007). In this paper we will discuss at length about her personality, her heredity vs. her environment, and how they have played a crucial role in Oprah Winfrey’s life and psychological development. So who is Oprah Winfrey? Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29th, 1954 where she was born to a single mother living below the poverty line in rural Mississippi (Novit, 1986). Oprah’s mother wanted more for her daughter than she had for herself, however wasn’t able to provide for her. Shortly after Oprah’s birth she was sent to live with her grandmother in the inner city of Milwaukee (Alchin, 2008). Oprah’s grandmother was so poor it is said that “she made Oprah ware dresses made from potato sacks” (Novit, 1986). Oprah’s grandmother taught her to read and write by the age of three, making her read and write bible verses over and over again (Novit, 1986). Oprah’s grandmother took her to church every week showing off her beautiful granddaughter’s talents...
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...Business Research Paper Oprah Gail Winfrey is one of the richest entrepreneurs in the world and is a woman of inspiration, leadership, power, and most of all business. Oprah was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Oprah is the daughter of a sailor and barber, Vernon Winfrey, and maid and dietician, Vernita Lee. Oprah was raised by her grandmother as a child and then was caught between her mother and father as she got older. Her father was a man who cared deeply about Oprah even though he might not have been her biological father, but in her heart her daddy was home. As a child Oprah was exposed to reading and she quickly grew a love for books and it became her way to cope with a difficult life that was still ahead of her. During the time she was back and forth between her parents Oprah was raped as a teen, and at the age of 14 she became pregnant not knowing who the father was, the baby was stillborn. Her father quickly came to the rescue, took her in and made sure she knew just how much he meant to her and he didn’t let go. Oprah claims her father saved her life. With the past left behind and the best yet to come, Winfrey signed up for the local beauty pageant, Miss Nashville, in 1971 and she won. All the locals knew Oprah Winfrey, and this led her to her first job. WVOL, the local radio station gave Oprah her first break reading news. She then took a job as an anchor for Nashville’s WTVF-TV and sooner or later the world needed to know who she...
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...Oprah Winfrey: An Inspiring Leader Of Today Rhonda Whiteman Central Methodist University Abstract A black female born in the Deep South to poor unwed parents, during the mid 1950’s, Oprah Gail Winfrey had very little chance of becoming one of importance, much less becoming the first black female billionaire in the world. This paper will explain Oprah’s difficult childhood and continue on into her adult life explaining how she succeeds not by chance, but through perseverance, generosity, and inner strength, she wears her heart on her sleeve and has the ability to listen to her public in a way that no other has achieved. She inspires hope and inspiration to millions by sharing her imperfections of just being Oprah, overcoming diversity, proving to her faithful audience that anyone’s dream of success can truly become a reality. Biography Life for Oprah Gail Winfrey started out January 29, 1954 in a small poor town deep in the south of Kosciusko, Mississippi. An unwed mother named Vernita, informed Oprah’s father about the conception after she was born. Vernita realized that she could not make a living for her and her young daughter, so the decision was made to leave Oprah with her paternal grandmother, while Vernita moved to Milwaukee. Oprah was a very bright child learning to read by the age of three, and appeared in front of her first audience for her church Easter program. Oprah at a young age, moved...
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...Oprah, Obama, and the 2008 Democratic Primary Craig Garthwaite Department of Economics University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Vmail: 202-746-0990 Email: cgarthwaite@gmail.com Tim Moore Department of Economics University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Vmail: 301-442-1785 Email: moore@econ.umd.edu August 2008 Abstract Candidates in major political contests are commonly endorsed by other politicians, interest groups and celebrities. Prior to the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary, Barack Obama was endorsed by Oprah Winfrey, a celebrity with a proven track record of influencing her fans’ commercial decisions. In this paper, we use geographic differences in subscriptions to O! – The Oprah Magazine and the sale of books Winfrey recommended as part of Oprah's Book Club to assess whether her endorsement affected the Primary outcomes. We find her endorsement had a positive effect on the votes Obama received, increased the overall voter participation rate, and increased the number of contributions received by Obama. No connection is found between the measures of Oprah's influence and Obama's success in previous elections, nor with underlying local political preferences. Our results suggest that Winfrey’s endorsement was responsible for approximately 1,000,000 additional votes for Obama. JEL Classification Numbers: D7; D72 We are grateful to Bill Evans for his comments and guidance. We also would like to thank Kerwin Charles, Allan Drazen...
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...Consumer Traits and Behavior Paper David Spears PSY/322 February 1, 2015 Dr. Steve Verrone Consumer Traits and Behavior Paper Psychological and social processes have an effect on the influence of the consumer. Some believe that the answer lies within the relationship between consumer traits and behaviors, and that these attributes are contributed to the consumer’s social and cultural setting. The goal of this paper is to analyze the question of why consumers view marketing messages differently, and to explain this reason by examining the effect that psychological and social processes have on consumer influence and the different traits and behaviors that consumers acquire through their social and cultural settings. Identify at least three psychological processes and three social processes that may influence consumer behavior. Marketer’s jobs are to understand the influences and buying methods of consumers to help enhance companies and their products. The first research process that marketers look into is psychological processes, in the process there are three main categories that are important to business’s these are the motivations of consumers, the perception of consumer’s and the belief and attitudes consumers have towards products and services. Motivation is important because this helps determine why the consumer is buying what they buy. A consumer’s motivation can be the need for a product, whether it is for a convenience of life style, prestige, self-interest...
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...workers. She has been on Twitter as the user @underoak since February 2008, and also as @akrewson since September 2008. She expects to complete the UNC technology program in May 2009. Reach her at akrewson45c@mac.com UNC Honor Code: "I have neither given nor received unauthorized assistance while preparing this assignment and I have written the code myself." This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit here. Brief abstract Twitter, the short-message service started in March 2006, has a reputation for being filled with irrelevant noise. But new users continue to stream onto the service, particularly since the talk-show host Oprah joined in March 2009. The service is used by a chat room for some and as a wire service for others, bringing access to the sharing and reading of breaking news to anyone with an Internet connection. With increased volume comes increased noise and competition for scarce attention. To be heard, news organizations need to use the service strategically....
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...ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROJECT ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROJECT Submitted TO – Ms. Neha BY – Mahima Sharma 50081 Priansha Periwal 50116 BBS 3 HR Submitted TO – Ms. Neha BY – Mahima Sharma 50081 Priansha Periwal 50116 BBS 3 HR CULTURAL DIVERSITY AMONG ENTREPRENEURS CULTURAL DIVERSITY AMONG ENTREPRENEURS Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. – W. Clement Stone Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. – W. Clement Stone Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. – W. Clement Stone ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We owe a great many thanks to a great many people who helped and supported us during the project. The project “CULTURAL DIVERSITY AMONG ENTREPRENEURS” focuses on understanding the diversity that exists among the newly emerged breed of entrepreneurs.We made an effort to understand how people from completely different backgrounds and ways of life, but with a common drive to prove their mettle, end up being their own masters. Our deepest thanks to our college professor, Ms. Neha , who acted as a constant guide and mentor in the process of drafting of this project...
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...Aguilar 1 Ruben Aguilar Mrs. Moore English 12.6 2 November 2012 Twitter Addiction Twitter has come to be probably the most commonly used social networking site, nearly half of twitter users view their profiles every day. Some of the users spend an unreasonable amount of their time on twitter, whiling the hours away unnoticed, while chores to go unfinished, and even going to the extent of ignoring family and friends in the real world. Although a majority of the hundreds of millions of people use twitter as a special networking device, it has several of negative impacts such as social isolation, communication problems, and health problems which profoundly impact the lives of the users. "The people drawn to Twitter are people on the cutting edge, the real nerds who are resentful of the fact that the general population have found and taken over Facebook" – (Steve Dotto), host of Dotto Tech. “Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.” - Robert Scoble, blogger. While twitter addiction disorder or twitter addiction are not medically accepted terms, the actuality of addictive behavior on twitter is a mounting concern for scores of twitter users, and one that psychoanalysts are seeing more regularly in their patients. “If you have found that sharing, connecting and learning through twitter has replaced all avenues of learning and communicating and in your life, it is a possibility that you have twitter addiction disorder” (Fenichel...
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...Damien Thomas 08/08/2013 EN1320 Composition 1 Unit 10 Research Paper Part 6: Final Draft of Research Paper The war on drugs isn’t necessary; the amount of money tax payers are wasting is reason alone to consider other options. There is talk that decriminalizing drugs will not help, and that legalizing them will cause more trouble than what is already around, while legalizing marijuana and educating the teens about drugs may guide them to make better choices as they grow older. Not only does the war on drugs take money out of the hard-working hands of Americans, but it also forces drug users to look for alternative ways to get high. Because of unfair laws on drugs such as marijuana, users move toward the legal “spices” that cause more death than marijuana itself. There are a few states that have legalized marijuana for medical purposes, although it’s still difficult to grow and use in those states because of federal laws. The legalization of medical marijuana; brings money to that state, helps the sick, opens jobs and rises the tax revenue; a few of the things to look forward to when Uncle Sam starts treating us like adults. “In the 1980s and ‘90s the U.S. beat back the cocaine and heroin epidemics, but not by legalization or decriminalization, but by tough law enforcement, strong prevention and education programs and public outcry.” (Bennett, 2013) The truth is the War on Drugs is something like the War on Terrorism. To end terrorism is to end hate; a great idea, but is it...
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...Why Get Married? By Abdulla As the human race has evolved through the ages, so has the institution of marriage. According to an article published on BBC news, titled the ten key “moments in history of marriage”, many Anglo-Saxons and early British tribes used marriage as a tool to build strategic alliance in the realms of diplomacy and trade. With the advent of the Roman Catholic Church, the notion of marriage evolved and theologian began to view it as a sacred ceremony that was done in the presence of the Almighty. This position was further strengthened by the council of Trent in 1593 when marriage was officially deemed as one the seven sacraments. Then as the role of the church in society began to evolve so did the definition of the marriage and the way it was viewed in society. Divorce started to become more common and with the gradual separation of the church and the state, the State assumed the role of becoming an institution that granted marriage right to couple. These civil or non-religious marriages were the founding blocks for a long debate about the sanctity of marriage and led to individuals and society debate on long established of the nature of marriage and whether it is meant to be a sacred institution that allows the bond between a man and woman only or its possible for people of the same gender to share the bliss of holy matrimony. Regardless, of how society defines marriage and who it deems worthy of getting married, a very pertinent question still lingers...
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...Marriage and Relationships of Today Helen Tish Taylor FSCJ Marriage and Divorce Relationships are what make up our world today, they shape the way we see things and the way we do things. Marriage is one of the most important relationships we will ever experience, unfortunately over half of us that marry will divorce. This is a sad but true fact. The most confronting part of marriage for myself is the fact that you are promising something you don’t know if you can deliver, but if you were to vow “ I will be with you until it doesn’t work anymore” that wouldn’t be a promise- it would be a statement of fact. When you commit to something beyond what you know you can do “I will be with you always” you are calling on yourself to be great. You are trying to make all the inconsistencies and complexities of marriage become reality. The books I have selected for my annotated bibliography all offer something to help the reader attain this goal of helping a marriage not just survive in today’s society but thrive and grow. Marriage and Relationships of Today Bernstein, J., & Magee, S. (2008). Why can’t you read my mind? Da Capo Press Bernstein, a psychologist specializing in couples and family therapy, and Magee (The Power of Positive Confrontation) offer marital partners a way to renew the spark in their relationships in this self help guide. They claim that one of the most significant steps is to focus on yourself rather than your partner by ridding yourself of toxic thoughts...
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