This is all about the life story and achivements of oprah winfrey.

1. OPRAH WINFREY
Presented by
s.sushmitha
I-MBA
Sona School Of Management
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2. Early life of oprah
 Oprah Winfrey was born Orpah Gail Winfrey (29
january 1954) in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to Vernita
Lee, a maid.
 She was born in an economically troubled background
and raised by a single-teenaged mother in the city of
Milwaukee.
 Orpah, named after a biblical character, had a name
no one could pronounce, so her family and friends
starting calling her Oprah.
 Shortly after Oprah's birth, Vernita Lee left her
daughter and traveled north.
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3.  Oprah was then raised by her grandmother, Hatti
Mae Lee and lived in terrible conditions.
 Oprah during church would recite poems and
verses from the bible.
 Soon the church, and the entire neighborhood
knew she had a gift and was nicknamed, "The
Little Speaker".
 Due to her ability to read and write before the age
of three, she enrolled in school.
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4. Oprah’s harassment
 Oprah at the age of six went to live with her mother,
Vernita Lee.
 Oprah due to her busy mother was paid little attention
to at home, her mother decided it was best Oprah live
with her father in Nashville Tennessee.
 Due to her mother was pregnant she requested to
come back to live with her mother and half sister.
 At the age of nine she was molested during her
childhood in Milwaukee and became pregnant at 14;
her son died in infancy.
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5. Second chance of life
 Oprah's mother sent her to live once again with her father in
Nashville, Tennessee. Oprah's father was very strict .
 Oprah attended Nashville East High School and elected as
school president.
 Oprah was then given a job reading the news on the radio
 soon entered into a public speaking contest where the grand
prize was a scholarship to Tennessee State University and
majored in Speech Communications and Performing Arts.
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6. Career
 She got a job at marryland as news reporter and had
willing to work outside of nashville. Though she wasn’t
a good reporter, shortly fired.
 Oprah's boss set her up as a talk show host on a
morning talk show called, People Are Talking in 1978.
 She strengthened the talk show for seven years and
then she decided it was time to move on.
 In 1981 Oprah sent recorded tapes of the show to a
talk-show in Chicago called A.M. Chicago.
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7.  They immediately offered her the job and in
September of 1985 she changed the name of the
show to, "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
 The first broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show was
on September 8,1986 it broadcast nationally.
 Oprah helped broaden not just woman's point of view
and significance but Oprah helped to realize that
every human has an importance in this world.
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8. Achievements and awards
 The Oprah Winfrey show went on to receive multiple Day
Time Emmy Awards and several other prestigious awards.
 Winfrey expanded the Oprah Winfrey show and started
releasing a monthly magazine which was called, O:The
Oprah Magazine. The first issue was in 2000.
 The series finale of the Oprah Winfrey Show as on it's twenty-
fifth season and it aired on May 25 2011.
 Oprah's made her debut as a film actress in the 1985 period
drama film, The Color Purple. Oprah was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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9.  In 1998 ,Oprah starred in the movie, Beloved which she also
produced and has also acted in several movies such as Charlotte's
Web (2006), Bee Movie (2007), and The Princess and the
Frog (2009).
 Oprah Winfrey in 1998 received an Achievement Award from the
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
 In 2011 Oprah Winfrey received a Humanitarian Award from the
Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences.
 Becoming the first female African American to host a television
show. Inspiring millions of people across the world. Now she’s a
media proprietor playing role as talk show host, actress, producer,
and philanthropist.
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