...Ask Walt Walt Disney in his office Walt Disney, on his daily rounds through Disneyland Walt Disney: A Short Biography Short Biography of Walt Disney (a condensed version of the Long Biography) Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois, to his father Elias Disney, and mother Flora Call Disney. Walt was one of five children, four boys and a girl. After Walt's birth, the Disney family moved to Marceline Missouri, Walt lived most of his childhood here. Walt had very early interests in art, he would often sell drawings to neighbors to make extra money. He pursued his art career, by studying art and photography by going to McKinley High School in Chicago. Walt began to love, and appreciate nature and wildlife, and family and community, which were a large part of agrarian living. Though his father could be quite stern, and often there was little money, Walt was encouraged by his mother, and older brother, Roy to pursue his talents. During the fall of 1918, Disney attempted to enlist for military service. Rejected because he was under age, only sixteen years old at the time. Instead, Walt joined the Red Cross and was sent overseas to France, where he spent a year driving an ambulance and chauffeuring Red Cross officials. His ambulance was covered from stem to stern, not with stock camouflage, but with Disney cartoons. Once Walt...
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...Walt Whitman was one of America’s most inspiring poets. Born a poetic genius in the nineteenth century, Whitman influenced the twentieth century with his idealistic poetry. He envisioned democracy as a way of life and looked to America for inspiration. Walt Whitman’s background influenced his writing in many ways and produced a new poetic style which changed the face of American Literature. Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, New York, to Walter Whitman, a carpenter, and Louisa Van Velsor. He was the second oldest of nine children (Price and Folsom online). At age four, Whitman and his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he spent a difficult childhood because of his family’s poor financial circumstances. At age eleven, Whitman ended his formal education and sought employment to supplement his family’s income. He got a job as an apprentice on a liberal, working-class newspaper called the “Long Islander Patriot.” There he “learned the printing trade and was first exposed to the excitement of putting words into print and observing how thought and event could be quickly transformed into language and immediately communicated to thousands of readers” (Price and Folsom online). Whitman began promoting his ideas to the newspaper. By age twelve, he had his first words published (Price and Folsom online). He was fascinated with seeing his own words and thoughts in print. Two years later, Whitman’s family moved back to West Hills leaving fourteen year old Whitman...
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...Mary Hammer Hammer1 English 102 Prof. Thuran Poem Analysis Essay This essay will examine two poems by Walt Whitman, “A Noiseless Patient Spider” and “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”. These two poems are similar in several ways yet differ in many as well. Each poem can be broken down and analyzed to relate to the human experience. Walt Whitman “A Noiseless Patient Spider” is about a spider as well as one’s soul. Whitman does a great job making two different things similar. A spider’s legs are always moving searching for a good place to make its connections to create its web. The speaker of the poem describes the spider as “a little promontory it stood isolated” (L.2) A promontory is a land mass protruding out surrounded by water. The spider is standing on a ledge protruding out surrounded by a vast emptiness. Whitman says “marked how to explore the vacant vast surrounding” (L.3) meaning the spider is working vigorously to find the correct place for its web. This relates to the second stanza which is about a person’s soul which is alone in the world constantly searching for a companion to quote, “ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, and seeking the spheres to connect them.” (L.8). this poem really leaves you to wonder how exactly a person really connects ...
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...Walt Disney Walt Disney was famous for being one of the founders of cartoon animation. Walt Disney was born on December 5th, 1901. He was raised a Christian by his parents, Elias Disney and Flora (Call) Disney. His family was average sized for the day, with 7 members. Walt had 3 brothers (Herbert Arthur Disney, Raymond Arnold Disney and Roy Oliver Disney) and 1 sister (Ruth Lora Disney). At the age of 23 he married Lillian Bounds and had two daughters, Diane Marie Disney and Sharon Mae Disney. Diane married Robert Borgfelt Brown and Sharon married Ronald William Millar. Walt died from lung cancer on December 15th, 1966, at the age of 65. Walt Disney was not only a famous American film producer, but a director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entertainer, entrepreneur, international icon and philanthropist. He was the co founder of Walt Disney with his brother, Roy Disney. Over the years, Walt had not only won 22 of 59 nominations of the academy awards but 7 Emmies. He has 2 stars dedicated to him in the Hollywood walk of fame. On average he received (US) $36 Billion in a financial year. Mickey mouse was his feature animation, but this lovable character wouldn't have been created if it wasn't for NBC studios. Walt's original main cartoon was 'Oswald the Lucky Duck', until NBC studios claimed it as their own. After Walter and Roy lost the rights to their character, they created Mickey Mouse. In 1929, silly symphonies was released. It was a short cartoon that was presented...
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...Unfortunately as we grow older we lose that imagination. One man in particular was able to not only keeps his, but share it with the world. Walt Disney was able to create a world in which fairytales and cartoons would be loved for decades. He was a creative genius. Walt Disney deserves to be honored because of all the joy he has brought so many of us. He started the company that brought us so many wonderful movies, TV shows, and amusement parks. He was the original voice of Mickey Mouse, perhaps the most successful cartoon character of all time. It’s hard to imagine that such great films such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo and Peter Pan were created by the man himself back in the 1930’s and 1940’s. He created Disneyland and Disneyworld, one of the world’s first theme parks, for children and adults to enjoy together. Walt Disney was born in Chicago on December 5th 1901 to Flora and Elias Disney. His family shortly moved to Marceline Missouri a few years later where he spent most of his childhood. Marceline is remembered to be the inspiration for Walt’s movie Lady and the Tramp and Main Street USA a theme land and first main entrance of almost every Disney Park. In his teen years Walt began to draw cartoons and shortly after joined the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. After the war Walt moved to Kansas City and started to draw cartoons again for a company called Laugh O Gram studio where his cartoons became hugely popular...
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...Walt Disney From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur,entertainer, international icon,[3] and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year.[4] Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year,[5] giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history.[6] Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorttheme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland. The year after his December 15, 1966 death from lung cancer in Burbank, California, construction...
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...Walter Elias Disney. Walt Disney was born December 5, 1901 in Chicago. He was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. Today I’ll commensurate Walt Disney’s achievements throughout his life and how his memory still lives on with us today. (Transition: Walt Disney was an extraordinary man who has impacted everyone’s lives throughout the years.) Starting off Walt Disney’s career in the 1920s, he opened his own small company in the Kansas City area and called it, Laugh-O-Gram. His first major series was called Alice Comedies. These silent cartoons were produced from 1924-1927. The company eventually went bankrupt. (Transition: After his company went bankrupt, Walt then moved to Hollywood to start new) There he then created Mickey Mouse who is the best known creation of his. Mickey Mouse first appeared in “Steamboat Willie” on November 18, 1928 at the Colony Theater in NY. This was the world’s first synchronized sound cartoon. Walt Disney was originally going to name his masterpiece, Mortimer Mouse. His wife is the one who convinced him to use “Mickey”. According to his brother, Roy Disney, Mickey Mouse was Walt’s alter ego. Disney created many more well-known cartoons such as Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, and Daisy Duck. (Transition: Now that Walt Disney has created these cartoons, he takes the next step in his career) Walter and his brother Roy were co-founders of Walt Disney Productions; Walt became one of the best-known...
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...The Walt Disney Company Financial Accounting Project Progress Report 2 8am M, W, Th Yuli Tang Wei Wang Tianda Xu Rui Zhang Profitability: In 2011, the profit margin of Walt Disney Company was 0.1176(11.76%). Due to the company’s huge net sales value, it shows a solid profit margin for a large company just as Walt Disney. In 2010, the profit margin was 0.1041(10.41%), which was 1.35% lower than 2011. The higher profits margin rate in 2011 indicates that the profit margin will increase in the future. Furthermore, the Walt Disney’s return on equity was 0.129(12.9%) in 2011, and the return on equity was 2.9% higher than the previous year, which showed that the Walt Disney keep steady profitability. Compared to its competitor DreamWorks Animation’s 0.123 profit margin, Walt Disney had lower profit margin that was 0.1041 (Appendix 2D). However, the ROE of DreamWorks Animation was 0.064(6.4%), which was much lower than Walt Disney (Appendix 1A&2A). Thus, Walt Disney made more profits than its competitor. The net income of Walt Disney in 2011 was $ 4,807,000,000, and it net sales was $40,893,000,000 (Appendix 1D). There are huge amount differences between net income and net sales. Because Walt Disney doesn’t have cost of good sold, the main reason is high cost and expense that was $ 33,112,000,000. In addition, income tax and interest expense were other factors determined the discrepancy. Liquidity and Capital Structure: As we know that a quick ratio can measure the...
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...SLIDE 1. The Walt Disney Company. The Entertainment King. SLIDE 2. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney SLIDE 3. Case question: Had The Disney magic begun to fade? SLIDE 4. About The Company SLIDE 5. Walt Disney Company is largest media and entertainment conglomerate Other ventures: -Studio Entertainment -Parks and Resorts -Consumer Products -Media Networks SLIDE 6. Walter Elias Disney SLIDE 7. • Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901. • In 1911 at school he met Walter Pfeiffer who came from a family of theatre aficionados, and introduced Walt to the world of vaudeville and motion pictures. • In 1917, Elias acquired shares in the O-Zell jelly factory in Chicago and moved his family back to the city, where in the fall Disney began his freshman year at McKinley High School and took night courses at the Chicago Art Institute. • He became the cartoonist for the school newspaper, drawing patriotic topics and focusing on World War I. Despite dropping out of high school at the age of sixteen to join the army, Disney was rejected for being underage. • After his rejection by the army, Walt and a friend decided to join the Red Cross. Soon after joining he was sent to France for a year, where he drove an ambulance, but only after the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918. SLIDE 8. • Hoping to find work outside the Chicago O-Zell factory, in 1919 Walt moved back to Kansas...
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...The Walt Disney Co.: The Entertainment King Marta Aparici Hornero Business Strategy MG530 1. Why has Disney been successful for so long? Nowadays, the small animation studio which was created in 1923 by Walt and Roy Disney has been converted in one of the biggest Companies in the entertainment field. With a $30.000 million annual income. The Walt Disney Company manages eighteen theme parks, thirty-nine hotels, eight cinematographic studios, and eleven TV channels. Walt Disney pictures, the most important cinematographic studio, continues producing animated feature film, in a pretty fast pace. In May 2006, The Walt Disney Company acquired the animations studios Pixar. Although Pixar movies achieved a greater success, Walt Disney was the pioneer to animations in creating irreplaceable characters, which became extremely popular among children and adults. Its creativity was unreachable by anyone; they had a talent that nobody could approach. But not only Walt Disney was creative, also Roy Disney had a business talent, he handled money pretty good. Both of their skills and knowledge guided them to what the world wanted to see, to hear, to imagine at that time. Walt always wanted emphasized teamwork, communication, and cooperation. For example, when Walt learnt that his distributor owned the copyright of the Oswald franchise. Instead of fighting for it, and wasting time and money they decided to create a new character, Mickey Mouse. After creating him, to attract...
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...“Alice Comedy” he began his production in Hollywood. Walter Disney revolutionized the idea of entertainment by creating Mickey Mouse, Disneyland land, and also establishing the California Institute of the Arts. [86] From silent films to weekly programs, Mickey Mouse has always been in our lives. According to Walt Disney: A Biography http://disney.go.com/vault/read/walt/index.html, Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 and was used in a silent film entitled “ Plane Crazy” but later made his debut in “Steamboat Willie” the worlds first fully synchronized sound cartoon. Now in days we always see fully synchronized cartoons and don’t really give much thought to it because its normal. Walt Disney’s drive to perfect animation was tireless and to his success he became the first to create a fully synchronized sound cartoon in the late twenties. As Walt Disney said “ I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing- that it was all started by a mouse.” The whole Disney empire was started by one character whom at first didn’t even talk . Mickey Mouse is even the iconic symbol for the wonderful Disney franchise. As a result Mickey Mouse was the engine that helped fuel Walt Disney’s success as an animator and the entertainment industry. [174] Barrera 2 To many people Disneyland is considered to be a rip off when they look at the price but they always end up coming back. Disneyland was launched in 1955 and by its third decade more than 250 million people were entertained...
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...it’s Mr. Walt Disney, Familiar isn’t? Disneyland I guess, you know about the famous land in HongKong that is full of Disney characters. Mr. Disney born on December 5 1901 in Chicago, his family settled in a village. At 1909 Walt attended in New Park School of Marceline, Walt Completed the second grade at Kansas and at school he met Mr. Walter Pfeffer who came from family of the catre aficionados. After 2 years, Wakt start to had a job that is selling newspaper , for 6 years walt sells newspaper, he wake up at 4am in the morning until evening, he found the work exhausting and he often received bad grades.Most of time you can consider Mr. Walt as a businessman , in 1917 his family acquired shares in the O-Zell jelly factory. He began as freshman at Mckinley Highschool he became the cartoonist for the school newspaper , drawing patriotic topics on World War I, And with hope to join the army Mr. Walt drop out of Highschool at the age of sixteen but he was rejected for being underage , afterwards Mr. Walt and his Friend joined the Red Cross and Mr. Walt becomes an ambulance driver in France for almost a year. As he comeback in his hometown, he seek for a job, but Mr. Walt is always failed to had a job because most of employer rejected him, because of his lack of imagination. Be cause no one consider to hire him, he hope to be an atleast an actor but in the end he focus in making political caricature, but still no one want’s to hire him . Thanks to his brother Roy, Walt got a temporary...
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...Essay on Whitman and Cunningham Society, just a word that most people use to describe the people around them and the population, holds the meaning of so much more. Society always appears to be used in negative context, because normally, it is used to describe a stereotype. The world is fully of stereotypes that are created by the opinions of everyday people, members of our society. Society can be portrayed in many ways, but it is how it is shown that counts. Michael Cunningham in his works of “In The Machine” and “Children’s Crusade”, and Walt Whitman in his poem “Song Of Myself” portray society as a murderer and their characters as the victims. Through interpretations and descriptions, their journeys and victimizations are brought to life through the literature. The ways in which society affects each person are shown in “In The Machine” as Lucas falls to industrialization, in “Song of Myself” as the reader discovers society’s true effects, in “Children’s Crusade” as Cat breaks away from society and finds her true happiness, and in “Song of Myself” as stereotypes are formed by society. Throughout the story, In The Machine, by Michael Cunningham, the main character, Lucas falls victim to society and its expectations. Lucas is just an average boy trying to get by during the course of the industrial revolution. Throughout the course of this period, people in society began to realize how technology was going to take over their lives. Lucas, became very involved in machines, he began...
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...alt Whitman Born on May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman was the second son of Walter Whitman, a housebuilder, and Louisa Van Velsor. The family, which consisted of nine children, lived in Brooklyn and Long Island in the 1820s and 1830s. At the age of twelve, Whitman began to learn the printer's trade, and fell in love with the written word. Largely self-taught, he read voraciously, becoming acquainted with the works of Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and the Bible. Whitman worked as a printer in New York City until a devastating fire in the printing district demolished the industry. In 1836, at the age of 17, he began his career as teacher in the one-room school houses of Long Island. He continued to teach until 1841, when he turned to journalism as a full-time career. He founded a weekly newspaper, Long-Islander, and later edited a number of Brooklyn and New York papers. In 1848, Whitman left the Brooklyn Daily Eagle to become editor of the New Orleans Crescent. It was in New Orleans that he experienced at first hand the viciousness of slavery in the slave markets of that city. On his return to Brooklyn in the fall of 1848, he founded a "free soil" newspaper, the Brooklyn Freeman, and continued to develop the unique style of poetry that later so astonished Ralph Waldo Emerson. In 1855, Whitman took out a copyright on the first edition of Leaves of Grass (self-published), which consisted of twelve untitled poems and a preface. He published the volume himself, and sent a copy to...
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...MGT 488 The Walt Disney Company The company I choose is the Walt Disney Company. The Walt Disney Company is a worldwide entertainment company. They have five main businesses: Media Networks, Parks and Resorts, the Walt Disney Studios, Disney Consumer Products and the Disney Interactive. Among the five businesses, the best known is the products of its film studio. Nowadays, the Walt Disney Studios is one of the largest and best known studios in Hollywood. It also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network. All in all, it is a very successful well-known company in the world. For more than nine decades, the name Walt Disney has been preeminent in the field of family entertainment. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to today's global corporation, The Walt Disney Company continues to provide quality entertainment for every member of the family, across America and around the world. The Walt Disney Company is really a worldwide company. The Company has a 51% effective ownership interest in Disneyland Paris, a 5,510-acre development located in Marne-la-Val lee, approximately 20 miles east of Paris, France. The Company manages and has a 40% equity interest in Euro Disney S.C.A. The Company owns a 48% interest in Hong Kong Disneyland Resort through Hong Kong International Theme Parks Limited. As far as I know, the most successful park is the one in Los Angeles. The ones in China and Paris do not turn out...
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