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    Walt Disney Walt Disney, someone who had great success in past years developing a company we all know today. Walt Disney, with his animation skills, he changed the world and how we look at it today. Leaving a legacy of having the most rewards for cartoons he made in the past, with leading his co, and workers to success of being the most known company through many generations. Who was Walt Disney? How did his company develope through past years? And who were the people that influenced Disney

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    The Creation Of Mickey Mouse "Oswald is my character, I 'm the one who created the rabbit with a round, white face, big button nose and floppy black ears, That was all my creation!" I shouted frustrated. "We know that Walt, but if you just -, " Scott an executive at Universal tried explaining to me before I cut him off. I shouted again, "No, I made this rabbit and I refuse to let you guys take it all away!" "Listen, Walt were giving you a chance to keep Disney only if you just take a lower salary

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    Laugh-O-O-Gram Studios

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    Studios ultimately failed, and in 1923 the studio was so burdened with debt that Walt had no choice but to shut down the studio and declare bankruptcy. Walt Disney was not a quitter. Following the bankruptcy of Laugh-O-Gram, he, his brother, and Ub Iwerks packed up and moved to Hollywood in 1923 with $750 to their names. The three began working in the back of a real estate office, where the Disney Brothers’ Studio was first created. The men continued to work on “Alice in Cartoonland” and were able

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    e? Walt Disney as successful as he was, did not start out that way. He and a friend, Ub Iwerks, opened a small cartoon studio in 1922, in KC MO. Disneys small studio soon failed and he took up a job that made ads to be shown in the local movie theatre in between showings. Disney was not satisfied though and was eager to be out on his own. Disney moved to Hollywood, California where he and his brother started a business in their garage. This is where Disney started to succeed. Still out of his

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    successful for a while for the aspiring designers; however, in 1928, Walt discovered that a woman named M.J. Winkler and her husband, Charles Mintz, stole the rights to Oswald and all the animators that helped in the design process except Ub Iwerks. Due to a contract dispute, Walt could not retain the rights and therefore lost them permanently. At this point, all seemed lost, but Walt was a person of superior determination and went ahead forward with his goal. With his team consisting of very few

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    Edward Hartley Angle was an American dentist. Edward Hartley was born on June 1, 1855, in Herrick, Pennsylvania. He is referred to as “The father of modern orthodontist”. He had essential gifts of mechanical genius, but those characteristics alone could not have brought him the status of singular greatness in the history of modern orthodontics. Edward is the most dominant, dynamic, and influential figure in the specialty of orthodontist. Edward is not only known for being dominant and dynamic. He

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    Walt Disney himself once said, “Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them what you have done.” Animator. Film director. Entrepreneur. Film producer. Voice actor. Screen writer. Entertainer. Business person. Television presenter. Film editor. Television producer. Hero. Walt Disney. He was one of the most extensive models of success to ever live. Walt gave everything

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    Colin Wells Sherry Minkowski Government 12 26 March 2000 Disney’s Influence on American Culture How does one begin to describe a king? As generations change, society calls for new leaders and kings, that will continue to push the boundaries. Steven Watts describes it as: Hollywood’s leading fantasy factory… (187) Disney is much more prominent in society, its impact now lives in every household, as well as a place in everyone’s soul. Behind it all is a thriving business that will out live most humans

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    George Washington Carver was born around 1864-1865 in a farm in Diamond, Missouri. As a child Carver was weak and ill, so he was put to do household chores and gardening. This is how he discovered his love for plants and nature. At the age of eleven he enrolled to Neosho African American school. Then in the late 1870’s he traveled west to Kansas with a group of African Americans. In Kansas, Carver worked as a housekeeper. In the late 1880’s, Carver moved to Winterset, Iowa where he continued his

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    trial run. By the end of the week, he had lost all his confidence that they were going to keep him on but too much of his relief, he was hired on at $50 a month. It was at Gray Advertising that he met Ub Iwerks. Iwerks was hired because he was an excellent lettering artist. As a matter of fact, Iwerks was getting paid ten dollars more than Disney. During the time that both men worked at Gray’s Advertising Company,

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