Television Shows: The Ellen Show

She Just Kept Swimming
We look for role models everyday in our lives, but what if one day you turned on your tv and found a new role model, right there on the screen. Everyday between 3 and 5 PM The Ellen Show airs all around the United States, and at all different times around the world. By talking to celebrities, prodigies, and playing games with her guests, she inspires people all over the world to strive for greatness and to be positive. However, the greatness defined within the prodigies, celebrities, and her games does not compare to the greatness of her generosity and kindness. Ellen offers selfless and inspiring people the opportunity to acknowledge their work and achievements on her show. Not only is she just talking to inspiring
Look at the person next to you - unique in every way. Our generation has been one of the most diverse in history because it is more socially acceptable to be. Statistics say, “that 2.4 million LGBT older adults over 50 live in the United States.”(Soon Kyu Choi) and that number will double by 2030. Ellen DeGeneres came out as gay in 1997 on her hit sitcom, Ellen. The episode was very controversial in the industry and caused ABC to place a parental advisory in beginning of each episode. This was a revolutionary moment in television history and reassured the audience that it is okay to be yourself. In that moment Ellen became the first leading character on a television series to be openly gay and coming out to the audience. Every time I switch the channel to The Ellen Show, a wave of happiness washes over me. Seeing her dancing, laughing and having a fun time at her job makes me smile and reminds me that I should always be like that too. She is never afraid to be who she is and she embraces it on the daily. Ellen’s positive outlook everyday is infectious to anyone watching. She inspires me to change my occasional negativity into positivity. Ellen has changed millions of lives over her 13 year career on her show and continues to do so, each and every day. (Pathos) Being gay has caused a few bumps in the road for her, but she overcomes them and moves forward. Although we may not all relate to her sexuality, we all should follow by her example. She is the type of person we should all aim to be like in our daily lives no matter what we are going through. We all should strive to be as accepting as Ellen. We all should strive to be as open as Ellen. We all should strive to be as brave as Ellen. We all should strive to be as kind EVERY SINGLE DAY as Ellen. (Parallelism from Malala’s