Oprah Winfrey Show Reflection

Oprah is widely known for her talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show”; a show about inspirational confessions and stories shared with the public to enforce the idea that no one is perfect. The philanthropist’s struggles contribute to her confessionals and friendly close knit feel with millions in her audience. People picture Oprah Winfrey as someone who is potentially just like every other celebrity; born with a silver spoon in their mouth and handed everything, this is not true. Only airing her show two decades after the civil right movement, it was still difficult as an upcoming talk show hosts. Including

Suddenly, a man approaches me and questions, “Are you lost? Do you have a family?” I can tell he is utterly literate. He looks clean in a blue dress shirt and brown pants. “Yes, sir. I lost my mother,” I claim. I try to hold back my tears but I just can't. He asks, “When’s the last time you saw your mother?” I say, “About five minutes ago. She was asking a woman for directions and I walked away thinking she would still be there. This is my entire fault; I- I never should have walked away in the first place.” He opens his arms for a hug. I can’t help it. He is a stranger, but I

Upon hearing the news of his death I immediately sped to his apartment. When I drove up, I saw his mom, surrounded by firefighters and police officers outside of the apartment complex. She was hurled over with her hands on her face, choking on her tears, unable to speak. The sight of her like that made the hair on my arms stand straight, and my throat felt like it was closing in as my eyes welled up in panic of what might really be happening.

Oprah’s movie did Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, an injustice when Oprah changed the entire purpose of the book. The changes made to characters, relationships, and the effects of symbolism makes the story unrecognizable. Their Eyes Were Watching God transforms into a love story and the title changes which alters the entire plot, even some settings change. Oprah truly slaughtered a work of art and her ignorance of the meaning of Their Eyes Were Watching God shows in the movie.

As technology has developed over the years, society has become extremely reliant and addicted to the media. According to A.C. Nielsen Co., a global information and measurement firm, the average American youth watches twenty eight hours of television per week. Within a sixty-five year timeframe an individual will have spent a total of nine years watching TV (Herr). Both of these sects contribute millions of jobs providing individuals with ample opportunities, a gateway to success. It certainly provided the break for one African American woman to attain a status she could have only dreamt of as a child growing up in an unstable, emotionally debilitating, and unpromising environment. Oprah Winfrey is arguably one of the most influential women

“Welcome home Father! We have missed you so much,” I cried. “Thank you, Mary I’ve missed you as well,” he said with a quick smile quickly turning back into a frown. “What is the matter; did I do something wrong,” I say getting frightened. “Oh no sweetheart, it is definitely not you it’s just that... never mind. Where is your mother?” “She went outdoors to hang the laundry,” I replied, biting my lip knowing that it’s my job to do the laundry.”Thank you,” he yells, already out the door. As I make my way outside, I see my father worriedly talking to my mother as a look of

As I jotted down the answer to my geometry homework, I felt the vibrations of the floor trembling beneath my feet from the deafening screams of my parents. I continued my work, as I go uninterrupted by the daily routine argument. One day, I didn’t hear the screaming anymore, which was one of the biggest abnormalities in this household. I slunk halfway down the stairs and stretched my neck over the banister to catch a glimpse of what had happened without getting caught. The next thing I knew my older brother was standing by my side, his curiosity piqued. My mom broke the silence by peering her head around the corner of the living room, her eyes locked onto mine. As my brother and my cover were blown, we walked gingerly to the couch and sat down. I watched my mom’s stone cold face quiver out the words, “We...are....divorcing”. My face froze as if I was in a cartoon show. I tried to

Through flashbacks the author presents some of Ellen’s difficult situations in life to show her hardworking characteristic. Some of these hardships Ellen had to face were of being jilted at the altar, her husband’s passing, and having to take care of her children on her own. Many people would have been stuck in depression. However, Ellen continued to take

Mom's 'talk' lasts for over two hours. She pries me for anything about my stalker that she should be concerned with, and I tell her the same thing I told the police. I’m not going to worry her any further than I already have. What I want to talk about with her is the day my stalker mentioned. What happened on that night that he wants me to know about…that is the real question. After a few minutes of silence, Mom finally lets me head up to my room when I finish talking about the roses for the fifth time.

(135)1.Oprah Winfrey defines self-empowerment by creating a network of self-help gurus and other experts in different fields through a commercial branding methodology. Oprah often defines herself as the center of this nexus of wisdom as a cultural icon, which “creates consumable goods out of ideas” (Gibbons, 2007, p.286). Foucault’s "panopticon" ( a prison tower that watches prisoners) provides an important allegory of centralized surveillance and monitoring apparatus in a prison system, which can be applied to Oprah’s “panoptic gaze” that controls the self-help guru culture through capitalist branding practices: Oprah’s personal Growth Summits, a series of lectures that Winfrey offered in three cities during the summer of 2000,

My mother and father sat downstairs and talked, Bella sitting with them, while I folded my clothes and put them into my chipped white wooden dresser. I could hear them murmuring between themselves, but I couldn’t hear specific words. My mother came up the stairs about ten minutes later as I was putting the last of my clothes into my dresser. Her five feet two-inch frame stood just inside my door with a Mona Lisa smile. Her eyes were sad and I could tell she was trying to hold back tears. I was confused as to why, and I was going to ask what was wrong, but she told me that my father had something he wanted to talk to me about.

She said she needed to talk to my dad about something and that i should go inside for now. I knew something was wrong but at that time it didn’t add up to be this scenario. I watched it through the blurry kitchen window like a movie scene, my mom broke the news to my father and the tears streamed down his face. I automatically knew what was happening and to this day i don't remember how but i guess i had put the clues together before my father had or he cared for my mother more than she thought he had. After a while my father opened the door and said that my mother had something to tell me, i began sobbing and he kept asking “why are you crying? Cheyanna what are you crying for?” He hadn’t yet known that i knew what was happening and i didn’t want to accept the truth. We walked outside into what should’ve been a perfect summer day with the blue sky peeking through the trees as the wind rustled the leaves. My mother told me she was leaving my dad, she gave me no reason and i don’t recall her even crying or showing sympathy for

My dad had left a note in the bathroom saying that he had ran away with my stepmom to Mardi Gras. This was all the information that I was given. “‘Don’t let your father know that I told you’”(569). She told me the exact words that Kingston’s mom told her. My mother would get very upset when I brought up their divorce, because of this I felt like I couldn’t ask her all the questions running through my head.

Jeremy, your thorough discussion of the research process, as well as the examples of sample questions to ask to gain data to the popularity of each The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, is an exemplary plan. Also, the use of charts and graphs as you mentioned is a strategic visual introduction of the data collected. As a matter of fact, those two shows have been televised for an extended amount of years. Namely, Oprah Winfrey has hit almost 25 years of existence on network television (Oles, 2010, para. 1). Furthermore, Oprah Winfrey has gained paramount success, as well as influence over her fans (Oles, 2010, para. 2). As a result, “her personal image affects her company’s image” (Oles, 2010, para. 4).

In the distance, I heard my mother continuously reminding me to keep an eye on my three-year-old brother, Angel, but as a thirteen-year-old all I wanted to do was explore the streets of Los Angeles without having to worry about where my brother was at. Not feeling selfish, I suddenly escaped my family’s supervision to gaze at the water fountains that looked like the Niagara Falls. Suddenly, I heard my mom yelling out my name. I thought to myself, she must be looking for me but to my surprise, it wasn’t I whom