Walt Disney -BIOGRAPHY During a 43-year Hollywood career, which spanned the development of the motion picture medium as a modern American art, Walter Elias Disney, a modern Aesop, established himself and his product as a genuine part of Americana. David Low, the late British political cartoonist, called Disney "the most significant figure in graphic arts since Leonardo DaVinci." A pio

Walt Disney As Walt entered his mid-60s, he didn't seem to be slowing down. In fact, he appeared to be speeding up. He decided to create four exhibits for the 1964 World's Fair in New York. Why' So that he could experiment with new ideas -- particularly Audio-Animatronics -- while using other people's money. The Mr. Lincoln attraction he developed for the State of Illinois was one of the

Walt Disney Walt Disney used creativity, determination, and honor to create the wonderful world of Disney. Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois, to his father, Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, who was of German-American descent (A., Brad). Walter is named after Reverend Walter Parr. Walt was the fourth child out of four b

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson, the popular Scottish novelist, was born on November 13, 1850 in Howard place, Edinburgh. He was the son of a civil engineer, Thomas Stevenson and Margaret Isabel Balfour. Directly from his birth, he was set out to be an engineer, just like his father. From birth, the was taught by his nurse, Alison Cunningham. She had a strick view Calvinism

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Mary Wollstonecraft Victorian Age Mary Wollstonecraft was born in London in 1759 to Edward John Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Dickson Wollstonecraft. Mary Wollstonecraft’s father, Edward John Wollstonecraft is the son of a successful silk weaver, which enables him to purchase a considerable estate for he and his family. Because Edward Wollstonecraft is a drunkard with a tyrant-like at

Washington Irving Irving, Washington (1783-1859), American writer, the first American author to achieve international renown, who created the fictional characters Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane. The critical acceptance and enduring popularity of Irving's tales involving these characters proved the effectiveness of the short story as an American literary form. Born in New York City,

Washington Irving Washington Irving: The Self-educated Author The year was 1804 and Washington Irving was on his way to Europe. He embarked on this journey because of his parents’ concern for his health, and to complete his education. His trip was short but well accomplished, learning many things, which helped benefit his writing future. He traveled back to the states and realized that

Willie Nelson When Bob Dylan wrote “he who is not busy being born is busy dying,” he could easily have been talking about Willie Nelson. Willie Nelson is one of contemporary music’s most genuine icons. On the verge of reaching the 70’s, the singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor remains an upbeat creative soul. Nelson’s career spans over more than 35 years, making 100 albums, and spendi

Anna Akhmatova: A True Poet A great poet is much more than a lyrist or a verse writer, a great poet is a person of deep imaginitive and expressive capabilities with a special sensitivity to the world around them. Anna Akhmatova is a great poet. Even more specifically, Anna Akhmatova is a great poet of Russia. In the late 19th Century, Russia's Tsarist autocracy was under siege. Oppositio

Zora Neale Hurston The era in the 1920’s known as the Harlem Renaissance was a great change for African Americans. During the previous decade’s Great Migration millions of black Americans moved to the north, settling mostly in Harlem. The Renaissance coincided with the time Zora Neale Hurston, an African American writer, attended and graduated college and began writing. Hurston was an e

Anne Frank Anne Frank was a true hero. She endured many hardships under Nazi rule; it eventually cost her her life. To others, writing in a journal might not be seen as a form of resistance, but it indeed was. The Nazi’s had begun incarcerating all Jews, sending them to Death Camps. In the beginning Anne wrote for her own muse, but after hearing a speech on the radio about a man that

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Anne Rice The Life and Legend of Anne Rice An Anne Rice Biography An author creates a door to the subconscious that transports you to a dreamland, a place whose very existence is based on your imagination alone. Controlled by the pages of text before you, the land of enchantment is formed, awaiting its quest to be embarked upon. A writer who possesses such a gift of creation is Ann

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William Clinton William Jefferson Clinton 42nd President of the United States William, or Bill, Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. He was named after his father, William Jefferson Blythe II, who had been killed in a car accident just three months before his son was born. Needing to find a way to support herself and her new child, Bi

William Wells Brown William Wells Brown was born in Kentucky, 1814, to a slave mother and a slaveholder. In January 1834, Brown escaped to freedom becoming a fugitive slave in Canada. William W. Brown an antislavery lecturer, novelist, playwright, and author was one of the most prominent and prolific African American in the mid-nineteenth century. After seizing his freedom, Brown (who

Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson graduated from Princeton in 1879 he studied law at Univ of Virginia. After receiving his Ph.D. degree he taught history, at Bryn Mawr and Wesleyan Univ. His attempt to change the social by eliminating the best eating clubs for upperclassmen and introducing the quad system, where the students from all classes would live and eat together. He wasn’t successful

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The Works Of Dylan Thomas The Works of Dylan Thomas Thesis Statement: Dylan Thomas, renowned for the unique brilliance of his verbal imagery and for his celebration of natural beauty, applies his own unnecessarily complicated and obscure style of writing to his poetry, stories, and dramas. I. Dylan’s obscure poems contained elements of surrealism and personal fantasy, which is w

Abagail Williams The Life of Abagail Williams Hi, my name is Abagail Williams. You have probably heard of me from the Salem Witch Trials. I was twelve years old when the out break of witchcraft terrified the residents living in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. Hundreds of people were accused, the majority forced to deteriorate in jail while their cases were studied and conside

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Abraham Lincoln I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals

Antony van Leeuwenhoek The biologist I chose to report on is Antony van Leeuwenhoek. I chose to report on him because he made many great microscopic discoveries. Those discoveries include bacteria, free-living and parasitic microscopic protist, sperm cells, blood cells, and many more. Leeuwenhoek was born on October 24, 1632, in Delft. His mother’s family were brewers and his f

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Al Capone Scarface The Roaring Twenties were a turbulent time in the United States. World War I had just ended and everyone was in high spirits. Young people wanted to have fun and were not going to let anything stop them--not even prohibition. Speakeasies, nightclubs, gambling houses, and bookie joints were put up to satisfy their craving for fun. Along with all these illegal ‘fun

Albert Chong Born in Kingston, Jamaica of African and Chinese ancestry. Albert Chong is the last of nine children of merchant parents. He left Jamaica in 1977 to permanently reside in the United States and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1978 - 1981 graduating with honors. Chong's exhibiting career started in 1981, and in that year his son Ayinde was born. He has a

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein is considered to be one of the greatest and most popular scientists of all time. His name is associated with genius and is know is almost every household even thou his inventions and discoveries are not always fully understood. With out him the world we know today would not be the same and such simple things as television would not be here. Einstein never

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Alexander The Great Alexander the Great was a great military leader for many reasons. His life was filled with events that would provide him with valuable experience. The people with whom he was close while growing up urged him to try his hardest, and this also contributed to his great leadership. In the following paper, I will explain how Alexander’s parents and education, among other t