Ollie Johnston

The Magic of Disney can be attributed to Walt Disney’s perseverance and imagination. Swearing to never create another character he didn’t have the license to, he created an animation studio in Kansas, which went bankrupt shortly after. After moving to California, he set up shop and started Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. One of the first real successes of the studio is a short in 1982 called Steamboat Willie, by Les Clark, which introduced the character later known as Mickey Mouse and was the first

The Iron Giant (1999), released less than a year after I was born, evokes primarily feelings of nostalgia. The root of the nostalgia I feel when thinking about this movie comes from having watched it many times since its release. Over these many instances of seeing the film, I’ve come away from it greatly enjoying the experience because of the connections it has to earlier in my life, and from the quality of the film that is hard to surpass with any other animated film produced for children. In my

Nowadays, skateboarding is a very popular activity among youth, and has become an art-form to many enthusiasts. Skateboarding is a hard sport to learn. It 's not something that can be learned overnight. Even the top pros like Paul Rodriguez and Eric Koston still learn new things even though they have been doing it for years. With skateboarding, there are endless possibilities when it comes to tricks. When it comes to beginners, learning the basics is the best way to start this great pastime. First

characters living closer to the people in the village and surrounding community. Keane and Johnston took radical opposite points of view in writing about the decline of the Big House both bringing aspect of their personal lives into the novels to be a type of biographical perspective of 1920’s Ireland. O’Faoláin makes the distinction between Johnston and Keane with the following “[a]lthough Jennifer Johnston is not a daughter of the Big House, in the sense that Molly Keane maybe thus classified,

Bentonville was fought in Bentonville, North Carolina, near the town of Four Oaks, as part of the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the last battle between the armies of Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston (Barrett). It was fought on March 19th through the 21st in 1865. The battle was the last full-scale measure of the Civil War in which a Confederate army was able to mount a tactical offensive. This major battle, the largest ever fought in North

Jefferson Davis ,most famously known as the president of the Confederate States during the Civil War, was an interesting subject of the 19th century. You would think it was because of his contributions to the war or lack thereof, but unfortunately he is associated more with his peculiar characteristics. Many of the characteristics are equivalent to those of basic people carrying out normal lives. The expectancy of loyalty and respect, indecisiveness, and not being capable of admitting faults, we

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, America’s first Female Native American writer and poet, exemplifies a unique multicultural influence in her writing as a result of her intermarried parents. Robert Dale Parker (2009), in his paper “Contemporary Anticolonialist Reading and the Collaborative Writing of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,” describes her controversial writings “as representing the cacophonous medley of internal contradictions that she lived in” (p.52). Specifically, that of her poem Pensive Hours

of enemy-occupied Atlanta. Palmetto was then headquarters for General John B. Hood, commanding the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Just two months earlier Davis had bumped Hood up the seniority ladder to take over the army after General Joseph E. Johnston had failed to stop Sherman’s march from Chattanooga to the outskirts of Atlanta. Hood quickly launched a series of fierce offensive strikes at the Union forces enfolding the city. None succeeded in halting the enemy, however, and Atlanta was abandoned

Johnston disobeyed orders and met Sherman again at the Bennett farm on April 26 which resulted in another meeting. On the final meeting, the Confederate forces became completely disbanded. The military surrender which ended the war in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida, and involved 89,270 soldier. Of all the meetings and compromises between General Joseph E. Johnston and General William T. Sherman, each contributed to largest surrender

THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN BY COLLINS MCKAY On July 21, 1861, two armies, one confederate and the other Union, prepared for the first major land battle of the Civil War. In 1861 Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as President. The Southern states had seceded and the South had fired on and captured Fort Sumter on April 12 1861. After the Fort Sumter battle, both the North and the South began preparing for war by raising armies. This was done quickly and neither side spent much time training