Oprah Gail Winfrey,everyone knows that Oprah is a great TV presenter and North American businesswoman, that she has won many awards for her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and that she is considered the richest woman in the entertainment business and the first black be included in the list of billionaires. But not everyone knows the story of the life of this great woman.
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Oprah Winfrey was born in Mississippi in the United States, in a Baptist family. She was baptized with the name of Orpah in honor of a Moabite pictured in the book of Ruth in the Bible. As the neighbors used to replace the "r" by "p" in its name, both in writing as to speak as a child his name was changed to Oprah
Oprah was the daughter of a couple separated adolescents. Her mother, Vernita Lee Gail, was mistress of the house, his father's name was Vernon Winfrey and the Armed Forces when she was born. Oprah's father did not want to be a father at the time and did not have a fixed relationship with her mother, so with the news of the pregnancy happened many fights between the couple and they separated. However, Oprah's father registered her, not even living with, but visited occasionally.
As Oprah's mother was alone she had to travel to the the United States Northern to work, then, Oprah spent the first six years of his life away from his mother and living in a place, in a very poor rural area, with the maternal grandmother Hattie Gail Mae. She rarely saw his father and his mother phoned only sometimes. Her grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to church where she taught her to read and sing Bible verses. Even so, his grandmother used to beat her a lot when she sang a verse wrong or misbehaved, although Oprah liked to do that and that's when she discovered he liked to deal with an audience.
When Oprah was six years old his mother returned and took her to live with her in a neighborhood in the city of Milwaukee in Wisconsin, where surely, was treated less rigorously because his mother was busy most of the time. However, as his mother was busy, Oprah began to be molested by her uncle and his cousins teens, when he was nine years old. They were relatives of his mother, and beat the girl, and raped her frequently a major trauma that Oprah, threatened, nothing could report to parents.
After all, Oprah has always been dedicated to the study and at thirteen years old she won a scholarship at Nicolet High School, one of the best public schools in Wisconsin. After finishing school, Oprah ran away from home because of sexual abuse and had refuge in the house of a friend whose family accepted it gladly.
At fourteen years old Oprah met her first boyfriend and fell madly in love with him. Time passed and Oprah despaired when she discovered she was pregnant and was depressed when her boyfriend left her.
Her parents already knew she was at a friend's house and she reported by telephone to her mother why she had left the house and that she was pregnant and that her boyfriend had abandoned her. His parents were shocked, her mother asked her to come back but she said he was fine and his relatives were arrested.
During pregnancy, Oprah did not took care and not used to go to the doctor besides living sad and depressed. Oprah to nine months went into labor and had a normal birth boy in a lot of pain as well as the boy was born a problem with their organs and weight. A few hours after his son died and Oprah never wanted kids.
After all, his mother consoled her and Oprah went to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee. She realized that her family was the most distanced from her and they treated coldly and Oprah concluded that it was because of his early pregnancy. Oprah went back to school to finish high school, and became more and more dedicated and popular among the classmates eventually being voted once as the "The coolest girl in school."
After finishing school, Oprah won acompetition of locution, which opened the doors of studies at the University of Tennessee for her, a historically black university, where she studied Communication Television. With 17 years Oprah gained a Beauty contest for having a beauty that always attracted attention. At that time, retraced her life, seriously dated any boys and at weekends came out with some flirt, getting to sleep away from home, and the father did not like this behavior.
Oprah's talent attracted the looks of the local radio WVOL, which hired her to transmit news on call. Oprah worked up on that radio her first two years in college.The choice of Oprah in the media did not surprise his family, including his grandmother who always encouraged and recognized her this talent. Later, Oprah thanked his grandmother for the incentive.
In 1976 , already formed in Communication and Performing Arts , he moved to Baltimore and attended the WJZ - TV News , which co-organized his talk show . The ease of communicating with the public caught the attention of another station in Chicago that offered a morning show with only 30 minutes. The good performance captured the audience and the duration of the program doubled .
Only in 1985 , her talk show would receive the name of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and would be immortalized as the talk show with the largest audience in U.S. history . The program lasted for 25 years and in May 25, 2011 , had its last performance .
Oprah currently resides in " The Promised Land " , located in Montecito in Santa Barbara County , California, also owns a house in Lavallette New Jersey , an apartment in Chicago, an estate on Fisher Island in Miami , a mansion in Douglasville Georgia , a winter home in Telluride Colorado, a summer house on the island Maui in Hawaii and a residence in Antigua .
After boyfriends and boyfriends, Oprah began dating businessman Stedman Graham in 1986 . They planned an official wedding should take place in November 1992 , but the ceremony never took place due to lack of time for other work . Even today they are together, and live well as lovers . Oprah has publicly stated he never wanted children , but said the South African students of the " Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls " occupy the place that would be dedicated to the children who did not have.
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John Forbes Nash Jr. was born on June 13, 1928 in Bluefild and was the son of John who was an electrical engineer, and Virginia who was a teacher. As a child, John Nash, was surrounded of incentive for the study, knowledge and curiosity. His parents gave him the Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and he still small already learned great things from the books that surrounded him.
Bluefild was not a community of scholars and high-tech but of lawyers and businessmen , so the challenge was that Nash would have to learn the knowledge of the world and not of the immediate community .
At the time Nash was in school , he was reading the classic " Men of Mathematics " by ET Bell that made him discover his passion for mathematics and he also succeeded in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself "p" times which "p" is a prime.
At school, his teachers not recognized as a prodigy, but as an extremely anti-social boy. Since age twelve, performed scientific experiments at home. It was clear that he learned more at home than at school, and was dissatisfied with the teaching in the school and this time it was possible to note the Nash's preference for seclusion and solitude.He related the social rejection of his classmates with jokes and intellectual superiority , believing that their dances and sports were a distraction from his experiments and studies .
Nash attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he studied chemical engineering, however, found difficulties in this area and then moved to the mathematics course.
Nash was accepted by Harvard and Princeton University and though Harvard having been his first choice because of the prestige and higher education courses in mathematics at Harvard University, Nash received letters from the then chairman of the department of mathematics at Princeton University inviting him fervently joining Princeton University. As this University was closer to Bluefild, Nash finished then opting for Princeton.
After graduating from Princeton and teach there for a year, John Nash became professor of mathematics at the famous university of MIT ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) . He taught at MIT during the years 1951-1959 , but his teaching methods were quite unpopular with students . During this time , John Nash made several advances in the study of mathematics , solving a classical problem , so far unsolved , differential geometry.
During his years at MIT , his mental problems began to worsen . However , in 1953 , had a son with Eleanor Stier . The boy was named John David Stier . However , contrary to the will of Eleanor , John Nash never married her .
In 1957 , the brilliant mathematician married
Alicia , a student of physics at MIT formed , where they met. In autumn 1958 , Alicia became pregnant . But a year later , John Nash began suffering from paranoid schizophrenia . Because of his mental illness , had to give up his post as professor of MIT and was hospitalized , she spent months in hospitals , even against their will . Nash recovered temporarily , but soon returned to suffer mental disorders . However , in the brief intervals of recovery , produced important mathematical works .
With this disease, Nash used to have delusions and give attention to them, but over time he was having a gradual recovery and went on to ignore the delusions without those ran out, but even so, it only occurred after Nash has gone through treatments used electroconvulsive therapy and antipsychotic medications.
In 1978, Nash was attributed the John von Neumann Theory Prize for his discoveries about the non-cooperative equilibrium, now called Nash Equilibrium. Also won the Leroy P. Steele Prize in 1999.
In 1994, as a result of his work with game theory, which developed as a student at Princeton, he received the Prize of Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Dedications made the award to Alicia.
Nash created two popular games: Hex (game) (independently created in 1942) and So Long Sucker in 1950 with Melvin Hausner and Lloyd Shapley.
In 2010, John Nash was at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of São Paulo, during the second meeting of the Brazilian Society of Game Theory in Commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Nash Equilibrium Theory.
Nash and Alicia divorced in 1963 but returned in 1970 to live together, in a non-romantic relationship, she sheltered him as a companion. The couple renewed their relationship after Nash was honored with the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994. They remarried on June 1, 2001.
A film about the life of John Nash was made: "A Beautiful Mind"
This is the inspiring story of a man who teaches through their difficulties and disabilities that there is no reason to give up .
Nicholas James Vujicic was born in December 1982 with the Tetra - amelia disease that is characterized by a failure in the embryonic formation that reflects the absence of all four limbs .
Nick was forbidden by law to study in a regular school because of his physical handicap and, during his schooling, laws were changed and he was the first student with physical disability to be integrated into a regular school . Because of its limitations , Nick has developed other ways to perform necessary activities such as writing ( Nick wrote with two fingers of the left foot and the help of a device attached to the foot ) , using the computer , shave , comb your hair , brush your teeth , answer the phone and stuff.
Although knowing so many things to do , Nick grew depressed by being discriminated in school and at eight years old he began to think about suicide . He decided to end his life by drowning himself in a bathtub . After a few attempts , he realized he did not want to leave their loved ones with the burden and guilt resulting from his suicide . He could not do that to them .
At fifteen years old Nick sealed his faith in God and began a wonderful journey. After often beg God to grow his arms and legs, Nick began to realize that his accomplishments inspire people just by the immense effort they required. One day Nick's mother showed him an article about a man dealing with a severe disability and this confirmed in the heart of Nick what he understood when he read the Gospel of John, chapter 9 that talks about the man born blind who faced with Jesus and his disciples, and wondered why the man was born that way, was when Jesus said that man was born that way to the glory and power of God is made real on earth.
All this did Nick see that he was not the only one with problems and that with God's help he could overcome them. At seventeen he began lecturing in his prayer group, and eventually started his non-profit organization: "Life without limbs"
After that, at twenty-one, Nick graduated in Accounting and Financial Planning and began their journeys with motivation speaker and began to speak at businesses, schools, places Christians and non-Christians. So far, Nick already spoke to more than two million people on four continents and has released books and appeared in the short film The Circus Butterfly.
Today, Nick is married and has a son who was born normal, keeps telling everybody of his life story and encouraging people not to give up.
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