In Kosciusko, Mississippi, Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954. Her parents Vernon Winfrey and Vernita Lee intended to name her Orpah, after a women in the Bible. However, the midwife who helped the birth spelled it incorrectly on the birth certificate. Oprah had a tough childhood, her mother decided to leave her with her grandparents to go find a job after WW||. Oprah's grandparents live on a small farm, a small house with three bedrooms and a porch, it was falling apart, it also had
Delprøve 2, opgave B Analytical essay of ”Remarks by the First Lady at Education Event with DC High School Sophomores” The speech was held by the First Lady, Michelle Obama, at the DC High School as an educational event for the sophomores. The overriding subject of the speech is education which is an area Michelle Obama and her husband, Barack Obama, has spent a lot of time and resources on. After the introduction of the speech she speaks of a goal that her husband has set for America. She tells
Rationale 1. Purpose: The general purpose for this presentation is to inform the audience about health benefits of daily physical activity. The audience will be able to list two benefits of daily physical activity after this presentation. The central idea is that physical activity should be implemented daily to promote a happy and healthy life. 2. Audience: The ideal audience for my presentation would be school age children and teens; although, the topic of this presentation would be appropriate
The Guerilla Girls are a women’s activist art group. They are masked women who came together to make change in the world of art and women’s involvement in society. GG emerged in 1985 and still are active today in New York after 30 years of the emergence of the group. The Guerilla Girls used posters with real statistics to show awareness of sexism in the art world and the discrimination of women in politics as well as in the mass media. The Guerrilla Girls spread awareness of sexism in art, discrimination
SPCM 200, 001 10/17/16 The Role of the Government in Preventing Childhood Obesity Specific Purpose Statement: To invite my audience to determine the role of the government in preventing childhood obesity. Thesis: With the number of obese children increasing, the government has to step in to reduce this number, but there are people who argue that it is not the government’s role to intervene in the way people raise their children. Introduction I. Attention Getter: According to healthiergeneration.org
Dr. Martin Luther King once said “no one is free until we are all free”. This idea sounds very simple, but it lays a profound message to many different events and issues that are happening around us, including many big challenges to the world such as racial and ethnic discrimination. However, there is a sub issue to those challenges that we rarely think of it as a discrimination – girls’ education. By investing in a good education for girls all over the world – teaching them how to empower themselves
The movie “The Hudsucker Proxy, No Country for Old Men, Blood Simple and Raising Arizona” were all directed by the “Coen Brothers” a duo of filmmakers. Every film that the Coens have made, the story usually starts out with an average Joe who gets involved in a complex scheme that appears to be simple at first, but, in all reality, is totally beyond them. Violence, death, and murder are usually common within their films as well. In ”No Country For Old Men, the middleman kills almost every single person
The one leader's commitment to the field of healthcare I would estimate on is Michelle Obama. Michel would characterize her administration style as the First Lady of the United States, by utilizing her position in people, in the generals eye to address the issue of adolescence obesity. Her program Let's Move!, propelled in 2010, was focused on closure the epidemic of adolescence obesity in one era. Today, 33% of all kids in the United States are overweight and will probably confront diabetes or other
Stories. We hear them all the time. For most of us, we’re introduced to the concept of storytelling from a very young age, when our parents would tell us bedtime stories. For others, we weren’t so lucky as to have had this privilege. I can most definitely say that I wasn’t one of those kids with this privilege, so what would I do instead? I would create my own stories, and relay them through my mind. Believe it or not, I got really good at storytelling. That is exactly why I’m going to tell you all
I asked. "Because we haven't seen your house yet and we want to meet Michelle." Mira explained. "Fine." I sighed. ~~~ I walked in the house shouted "Michelle!!" I heard footsteps come down the stairs. "Yes?" She asked. "Umm... Can the girls and I have a sleepover here?" "Mmm... Yes!! Of course! I want to meet the friends of my little sister!" Michelle squealed while hugging me tightly. "C-can't b-br-breathe M-m-Michelle." "Oh, hehe Sorry." She finally let go. I walked outside to where the