Sunday, September 26, 2010

Hero

What is your hero? Who they are, what makes them a hero, and why we should care about this person?

My hero is Oprah. Oprah is my hero because she has done so many great things in her life. She came from poverty in Mississippi to a teenage mom. She was sent to live with a man in Tennessee who was a barber. She landed a job in a radio station and began co-anchoring the news. That’s where it all started.

Oprah now is the richest African American in the world. At one time she was the world’s only black billionaire. She now has her own talk show called “Oprah” in Chicago and is said to be one of the most influential person in the world. She even has her own magazine called “the Oprah magazine”!

Some of Oprah’s beliefs are different than mine but that is ok. She has done some great things in the world. She brings people to her show that have been apart or mad at each other for years and brings them together, to me that is amazing. Oprah has been a huge part in many charity’s one is called “Oprahs angel network”  which she has raised over 80,000,000$!

Oprah became a millionaire at age 32 and has been in America’s top 400 richest since 1995. To me for someone to become such an influential and wealthy person is astonishing. Oprah to me shows how someone can come from something to nothing with the right attributes.



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