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Oscars he was awarded a normal sized statue and seven little ones for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Between 1932-1969 Walt Disney was awarded 22 academy awards and had 59 nominations. The last movie he made was The Jungle Book. Walt Disney has a star in Hollywood Walk of

The game of baseball evolved immensely during the 1900’s. There were new rules and rule changes, new teams in new states, and then there was Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was a true legend from the day he was born in 1919. Baseball had it all in the first half of the 1900’s, fans filled the stadiums day after day, even during the war times. There was a big-name player on almost every team, children and adults admired these professional baseball players. The only thing professional baseball didn’t

Known for his expressive, significant prose Ernest Hemingway has written novels that have left a landmark in the 20th century American fiction ("Hemingway, Ernest (Miller)"). Ernest was an American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and four marriages were widely publicized ("Hemingway, Ernest (Miller)"). He also won the Pulitzer Prize for, "The Old Man and the Sea," in 1953. Another award he won was the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award

MISSOURI. IT WAS DURING THIS TIME THAT WALT BECAME INTERESTED IN DRAWING. AT THE AGE OF 7 HE WAS SELLING HIS FIRST DRAWINGS TO HIS NEIGHBORS. WHEN WALT WAS AROUND 9, HIS FATHER WAS TO ILL TO CONTINUE WORKING ON THE FARM SO THE FAMILY MOVED TO KANSAS CITY WHERE HIS FATHER HAD A PAPER ROUTE. WALT’S FIRST JOB WAS DELIVERING THE PAPER FOR HIS FATHER. BY THE TIME WALT WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL HIS FAMILY HAD MOVED BACK TO CHICAGO. HE WAS NOT INTERESTED IN SCHOOL EXCEPT FOR CREATING CARTOONS THAT HIS SCHOOL’S

Introduction      Today, when we hear the slogans "better farming, better food," or "proud to be farmer owned" one company comes to mind, Farmland Industries. We may think of this of this fortune 500 company as a leading agricultural powerhouse, which it is, however, it was not always that way. Background      Farmland Industries Inc. was founded by Howard A. Cowden, who was born and raised in Southwestern Missouri. Cowden started

Jackson was born on November thirtieth, nineteen-sixty-two in Bessemer, Alabama. He will turn fifty-two in thirty-seven days. He was the eighth child of ten children. He didn’t meet his father until he was eleven. Bo was named after Vince Edwards,the star on Ben Casey, because it was his mom’s favorite television show. His mom had trouble supporting her family with food, clothes, and school with the money from her housekeeping job. He has three kids his sons Garrett, Nicholas, and his daughter Morgan

Essay 15 November, 2016 Home Is Where The Heart Is I will forever remember my fourth grade choir class. We went to the Kansas State Capitol and sang "Home on the Range" for the Senators, Represenatatives, and anyone who happened to be passing by. These infamous words of Brewster Higley stick out in my mind when I read our writing prompt; what are the benefits of living in rural Kansas? What are the benefits of living on See if you can use a synonym to seemingly increase your vocabulary our Home on

spending leisure time among American citizens. Film stars such as Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and Mary Pickford emerged as icons to many people around the world. As far as the music industry is concerned, 1920’s were not called a “Jazz Age” without a reason. It all started with New Orleans, where African-American musicians began gathering on the streets of the city and play music. Later it spread throughout the country – from New York to Kansas City.

some odd way. He was way more artistic then than the rest of us. Walt enjoyed drawing, but father did not really approve of this. When Walt was 10 years old and I was 18, our family had to move to Kansas City because our father became very sick and could no longer take control of our farm. In Kansas City, Walt became in love with trains. He

Ernest Hemmingway’s A Farewell to Arms: Hemmingway’s life during the war and thestory’s structure helped him create a simple story but with so much detail. The general idea ofthe book is a boy meets a girl, boy gets the girl, and girl leaves boy. That simple structure wasused for the whole story, which is 41 chapters. I believe that Hemingway managed to write thisstory by his way of life when he was younger.I have heard of Hemingway and the way he livedhis life and I would like to find out if his