Oprah Wenfrey Case

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 and she was an American media proprietor,

talk show host, producer and among other things. She is best known for her multi- award

winning talk show. I choose to do my assignment today on Oprah Winfrey because I have

always looked up to her since I was younger. She has touched the lives of so many people and

lots of people and lots of people look up to her. Today I am going to talk about certain obstacles

she has overcame, those obstacles, how education is important to her and last but not least what

kelp her motivated over all these years to keep achieving her goals.

Over the years since Oprah was a child she had plenty of obstacles she had to overcome like:

she lived in poverty her whole childhood. She also was raped from the age of nine years old until

she was fourteen years old, by her uncle, cousin, and a family friend. Through life everyone has

a few obstacles that we all have to overcome and get through, I really think she did a great job

with overcoming her and became very successful as a result.

One of the main things that help Oprah overcome her obstacles, was believing that there was

a power greater than herself. She had to believe in God to get through some of the things she

suffered as a child like being abused and sexual assault. She used her childhood abuse to help

herself gain empathy for people in her everyday life today. So through it all the one thing that

helped her and kept her right and believing that one day would eventually get better and that I

wouldn't always be that way. When I read things like that it really gives me hope that I can

overcome anything in my life, she is such a inspiration to me and others.

Through the early years of Oprah's life she did very well in school until she got about 13 or

14 is when she started having trouble to where she was skipping school and doing other things.

Soon after that is when she realized that is was time to get her life on track. Education is very

important to her now, because