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Oprah

Oprah. Winfrey. Acomplishments. Oprah Stared in a movie called “The Color Purple” After the movie she was nominated for Academy and Golden Globe awards. In 1987, the Oprah Winfrey show won the first of many Emmy Awards. Her Face has been on over 29 magazines.

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Oprah

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  1. Oprah Winfrey

  2. Acomplishments • Oprah Stared in a movie called “The Color Purple” • After the movie she was nominated for Academy and Golden Globe awards. • In 1987, the Oprah Winfrey show won the first of many Emmy Awards. • Her Face has been on over 29 magazines. • Between 1995 and 1996, she earned a total gross income of $171 million. • 2004, she gave $5 million to Morehouse College to fund college scholarships. • Winfrey opened a school in South Africa, The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls South Africa, in 2007.

  3. Interesting Facts • She is the highest paid entertainer in the world • Learned how to read at two and half years old • At nine she was raped by a cousin and it didn’t stop for years after that. • Didn’t go to kindergarten, then went from 1st grade to 3rd. • Became very un behaved and her mother sent her to live with her father( who was REALLY strict) • When she was a junior in college she was already making an annual salary of 15,000 dollars a year!!!!

  4. Horoscope Oprah Winfrey was born January 29, 1954 Work or school could prove to be a bit of a challenge today: you’ll know what the best way forward is, but your work colleagues or school mates will seem too set in their ways, and will make life a little difficult. However, the planets suggest that you really need to listen to them!

  5. Works Cited Bower, Charles D, James W. Hipp and Karen L. Rood. "Winfrey, Oprah (1954-)." American Decades. Ed. McConnell, Tandy. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Collier County Public Schools. 11 Mar. 2009 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=SRC- 1&docId=EJ2113200256&source=gale&srcprod=SRCG&userGroupName=napl44696&version=1.0>. Shelton, Sonya. "Winfrey, Oprah (1954-)." Newsmakers. Ed. Sean R. Pollock. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Collier County Public Schools. 11 Mar. 2009 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=SRC-1&docId=EJ1618001794&source=gale&srcprod=SRCG&userGroupName=napl44696&version=1.0>. Thompson, Robert J. "radio broadcasting." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 2009. Grolier Online. 12 Mar. 2009 <http://gme.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0241340-0>. "Winfrey, Oprah." America the Beautiful. 2009. Grolier Online. 12 Mar. 2009 <http://atb.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?templatename=profile.html&assetid=atb026b09&assettype=b>.

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