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    The First Self-Made Millionaire Hair product companies that are owned by African Americans are created to help the black community enhance their kinky-curly textures. From natural hair products to permed hair products, many companies are making millions among millions of dollars for providing the best shampoos and moisturizers. Many of the natural hair companies were influenced be a woman who created a new regimen for hair growth and created handmade hair products. Sarah Breedlove, who is also known

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    Oprah Winfrey is an American talk show host, actress, and philanthropist. She is best know for her talk show ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’, which was the highest-rated program of its kind. She has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history. Several assessments regard her as the most influential woman in the world. From her contributions throughout the world. On January 29, 1954 Oprah Winfrey was born to a single teenage mother by the name Vernita Lee in Kosciusko, Mississippi.

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    Thank You Mam

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    Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones is a true philanthropist. Understanding is a trait Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones expresses throughout the story. She tries to teach Roger that just push through and there may be success in his life. She tells him, “I was young once and I wanted things I could

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    Conner Martin#21 Martin 1 Mrs. Colleto ELA 8 8 November 2016 Chris Gardner Biography Chris Gardner was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Gardner was born to Thomas Turner and Bettye Jean Gardner on February 9, 1954. Gardner was the second child born to his mom. Gardner's mom was Bettye Jean. Gardner did not have any positive male role models because his stepfather, Freddie Triplett, was abusive to his mom and siblings. Gardner's mom was falsely imprisoned because Triplett

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    hardworking and inspiring woman. She ran a hit television talk-show that gave people a look into famous people’s lives. Being an African American women, she has had many hardships and has still become extremely successful. A big, obvious issue being racism. She grew up in the 50s and 60s, so she, without a doubt, dealt with racism. Oprah is also a philanthropist which shows her caring soul. She has founded fundraising networks and has donated tons of money towards good causes. Oprah is definitely

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    Oprah Winfrey, the media mogul who was voted world’s most powerful woman and a tycoon of her OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) empire, died on Monday at a hospital in Santa Barbara. She was 82. Lisa Halliday, Winfrey’s publicist, said the cause was complications from coronary bypass surgery. She was the first woman in the history of broadcasting to own her own talk show and only the third woman to own her own studio. Her syndicated talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, reached 40 million viewers a week

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    Robert B. Reich, Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer Reich starts his exordium with a distribution of where American workers found themselves in the early 1990’s in reference to where almost all American workers were just 20 years before. Reich placed most of the workers that contributed to the economy during the Nixon administration as being in one boat, analogous to the famous quote by G.K. Chesterton, “We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible

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    Privacy In The USA

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    should learn more about the privacy. Although Vietnamese people do not have and care about privacy too much, American custom about privacy is considered as a treasure and clearly show in the workplace and at home. And then, I believe that when I write some detail about the private , it will help you understand and know how the privacy is important. First, the privacy can be seen obviously

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    Essay on The Malignant American in Surfacing

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    The Malignant American in Surfacing     Before traveling through Europe last summer, friends advised me to avoid being identified as an American.  Throughout Europe, the term American connotes arrogance and insensitivity to local culture.  In line with the foregoing stereotype, the unnamed narrator's use of the term American in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing is used to describe individuals of any nationality who are unempathetic and thus destructive.  The narrator, however, uses the word in the

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    are commonly construed with the American people. An American archetype is a person that represents universal American human patterns. People have said that the character Bartleby from Bartleby, the Scrivener demonstrates resemblance to an American archetype. The novella is set during the mid 1800's on Wallstreet. During this time period there was a rise in change and the world was moving at a rapid pace. Bartleby struggle with change and relates to an American archetype by being lazy, stubborn

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