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    Walt Disney, a man known around the world, someone who has given magic and imagination into the generation of children and adults around the world. Disney didn’t start famous though, he was born December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. His parents were Flora and Elias Disney, he also had four siblings, Roy one of his brothers became someone who impacted Walt’s life greatly. In 1906 Walt moved with his family to Marceline, Missouri, this rural area sparked Walt’s love for animation, after school he

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    businesses keep popping up. While Ground Zero appeals to the masses (and has some great Southern food, too), blues experts like Stolle can direct you to the few remaining authentic juke joints, such as Red's Lounge a few blocks away. Po' Monkey's, farmer Willie Seaberry's backwoods sharecropper shack closer to the Delta's center near Merigold, serves beer from a cooler and has a DJ that plays blues and old-school R&B. Plastered with posters and strung with Christmas lights, with a sea of stuffed monkeys

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    Walt Disney Speech

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    He drew a mouse named Mickey. The mouse’s name was Mickey mouse. The three put up three cartoons using Mickey Mouse. The first two shorts were silent films, “Plane Crazy” and “The Gallopin’ Gaucho”. The first Mickey Mouse film with sound was “Steamboat Willie” with Walt Disney as the voice actor for Mickey Mouse. “Silly Symphonies” was created in 1929. It included Mickey Mouse’s friends. Mickey Mouse’s new friends were Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto. Their most famous cartoon in “Silly

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    How did Walt Disney get the idea for his beloved theme park? The idea for the park came to mind when he was thinking about how he wanted better places for children. Disney said, “When my daughters were young and I took them to amusement parks… I said to myself, Why can't there be a better place to take your children, where you can have fun together?” (Hughes). Disney shows how much he wanted to have an enjoyable environment for families to spend time with each other. He started off by using his films

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    stated that “It all started with a mouse”. Initially, Walt was unable to sell the first two Mickey Mouse cartoons because they were silent films. Therefore, they made a third Mickey Mouse cartoon, this time with fully synchronized sound, the Steamboat Willie, which premiered at the Colony Theater in New York on the 18th of November 1928 and became a tremendous accomplishment for the

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    (1899-1997), had suggested the name change to Mickey, stating that it had sounded better than Mortimer Mouse. Walt Disney agreed, so to this day, the mouses name has been Mickey. This single mouse had began Disney’s career with his first appearance in “Steamboat Willie,” (Ulster). This little cartoon also was the first to use fully synchronized sounds, and had also featured Walt Disney as the voice for Mickey Mouse. Disney had began to make many of these “Disney Shorts,” which made him think of new characters

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    ALMOST EVERYONE KNOWS THE CHARACTERS OF MICKEY MOUSE, MINNIE MOUSE, AND DONALD DUCK. WALT DISNEY WAS THE MAN BEHIND THESE CHARACTERS AND MANY MORE. A BOY BORN IN CHICAGO, IL AND MADE HIS WAY TO HOLLYWOOD, CA CREATED MANY OF THE GREATEST CARTOON CHARACTERS AND BROUGHT FAIRY TALES TO LIFE. THE DISNEY NAME IS KNOWN NOT ONLY FOR CARTOONS BUT MOVIES, TELEVISION, RADIO, AND THE CREATION OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST AMUSEMENT PARKS. WALT WAS BORN IN CHICAGO, IL IN 1901, ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN, 4 BOYS

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    Introduction to Screenplays There’s been one thing that has been on the human mind centuries for centuries. Creativity. Creativity is the reason we have cars, airplanes, government, movies, art. Writing. Even before colored movies, before the first movie, before Shakespeare, there’s been a write behind everything, behind every actor, behind every director. They’re the whole reason you see what’s on the screen, they birthed the movie from their hands and pen. Screenwriting has been around for centuries

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    Walter Elias Disney was known as a American voice actor, film producer, entrepreneur and animator. Walt was born on December 5,1901 in Hermosa neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Walt’s parents were Elias Disney and Flora Disney. Elias Disney was born in the Province of Canada, while Flora Disney’s parents were descendants of German and English culture. Walt was the fourth born out of five children. His siblings, Herbert, Raymond, Roy and Ruth. At a young age Walt had a n interest in drawing , painting

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    Walt Disney Struggles

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    If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again! No entrepreneur becomes famous overnight. It takes years of hard work. Struggles. Difficulties. Some give up; some persevere. But they aren’t remembered for their mistakes. Who remembers that Steve Jobs dropped out of college? Or how Oprah Winfrey lived in poverty as a child? They encountered struggles. But did they give up? No! They persevered. And so did Walter Elias Disney. Despite his struggles early on, Walt Disney worked hard and became a famous

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