...creator of most of our beloved movies while growing up, Walt Disney. Disney was inspirational to other artists out there in not only animating but story writing as well. But how, one might ask, did Walt Disney get into animation and becoming famous as he is now. Well, to get to that, we start in the beginning, to the early twentieth century. Walt Disney was very interested in art at a young age, as he would sell his drawings to his neighbors to make some money. Soon, he pursued into his art career, by studying art and photography by going to McKinley High School in Chicago. As he grew, Walt began to love and appreciate nature and wildlife, and that of family and community. He was encouraged by both his mother, and older brother, Roy, to pursue in his talents. During the fall of 1918, Disney attempted to get himself enlisted for military service, but was rejected due to him being underage at only sixteen years old during that time. So instead, he joined the Red Cross and was sent overseas to France, where he spent a year driving an ambulance and chauffeuring Red Cross officials. But the funny thing was that Disney's ambulance was covered from stern to stern, not with stock camouflage, but with his cartoons. When Disney got back from France, he began to pursue a career in commercial art, which he started a small company called Laugh-O-Grams; which later full into bankruptcy. So, with his suitcase, and twenty dollars, Disney headed to Hollywood to start anew. Soon, after making...
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...Introduction Leadership has many meanings, depending who you talk to. This paper will concentrate on leadership as the ability for one to influence others in reaching common goals (Northouse, 2013). The focus of this report is on Walt Disney, a man who demonstrated, both positive and negative leadership throughout his life. The leadership theories which will be focused on for this report include concept of power, trait approach, skills approach, style approach, and transformational leadership will be explored and applied to Disney’s experiences. Biography Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of four, his family moved to Missouri, where his love for drawing and arts developed. When he was 18 he moved to Kansas and was employed at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio (Mosley, 2002). He soon after opened his first animation studio, Laugh O’ Grams with his brother, Roy Disney (World Biography, 2014). The studio grew in popularity, but eventually went bankrupt due to poor financial managing and high employee costs (Mosley, 2002). This prompted the brother’s move to California. Here they opened the Disney Brothers’ Studio in Hollywood (Disney, 2014). Walt met his wife, Lillian Bounds, who was hired at the studio in 1925. The pair got married and had two daughters, Diane and Sharon (Mosley, 2002). In 1926, Mickey Mouse was created and featured in the first animated short with sound, Steamboat Willie (World Biography, 2014). Nine years later...
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...Walter Elias Disney was a man who wanted to bring happiness to adults and children through his creations and movies. Walt installed his creations in the hearts and minds of children all over America. Walt was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois (Lane). His father, Elias Disney, stressed hard work and perfection from his children at an early age. He and his family moved several times throughout his childhood. The family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri. There, he went to school and, more importantly, discovered his talent for drawing. One of his favorite activities was to sketch the farm animals (Slayman). He stayed in Marceline until 1911 when the family moved again to Kansas City. His father ran a paper route and hired his sons, Walter and Roy, as delivery boys. The paper route traumatized Walt, however. He...
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...Every little girl wants to feel beautiful. She dresses up in sparkly costumes and stumbles around in her mother’s high heels because this is what has been ingrained in her mind as beautiful from her favorite Disney movies. From infancy to adulthood, we cherish the princess movies that we feel connected to. We all wanted to be part of Ariel’s world or be rescued from Maleficent’s evil grasp. However, we never question the value of these Disney Princesses influence on young girls. Are these princesses setting a good example for the aspirations of today’s children? The grasp of Disney Princesses reaches incredible lengths. They’re international symbols that are recognizable all over the world, but perhaps they are not the best role models to idolize. Disney Princesses do not represent positive icons for young girls because they glamorize unrealistic concepts of beauty and promote naïve life choices. Disney released its first Disney princess film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, in 1937. Since its release, Disney has created twenty-three other animated Disney films that could be considered princesses. These princesses bring in billions of dollars of revenue through Disneyworld merchandise, attractions, characters, and movies (Disney...
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...Walt Disney has been a popular series of films among families. Ever since the release of Snow White in 1937, Disney princesses have captured the hearts of children everywhere and have been role models for them. Throughout the films, each princess has had their own story and their own obstacles to overcome, though some of these obstacles weren’t overcome by themselves. In earlier movies, it was necessary for their prince charming to rescue them. From damsel in distress to independence, the women of Disney have changed as a result of United States History. When Disney came out with its first full length movie, Snow White, it didn’t intend on having princesses as being a commercial entity. This wasn’t truly an idea until...
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...Walt Disney Behavior and Communication Paper Originally starting off in 1932 as an animation company, Walt Disney was determined to create a successful business. After two previous business failures, Walt Disney was confidence that this time around he had to stick to his originality and creativity. The creation of Mickey Mouse was an instant success. Walt Disney’s determination did not allow his to stop and even after the company’s growth began to decline during World War II Walt Disney pushed forward. He focused his energy on creating film and would eventually create a theme park, Disneyland. Disneyland turned out to be another huge success for Walt Disney. He ended up developing an organizational culture “to bring happiness to all” through “magic” and Disney’s team of creative and innovative people has continued to make the Walt Disney Company a success. Disney's organizational culture is built on innovation, creativity, community and optimism. The company is based on the very same culture and values as Walt Disney. That is way it’s no surprise that the Disney employees share the same characteristics as him. The company also seeks employees who are diverse. This diversity allows the company to be unique and connect with all different types of audiences and consumers. However Disney employees still need to “fit in”. To ensure that new applicants know what they are signup for they are required to watch a video that covers a rules such as you no tattoos, you have to have your...
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...rabbit that everyone immediately loved. For a while Walt was very happy with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Finally, when Walt’s contract was up with Universal, he was sure he was going to get more money. Instead Walt got offered less by Charles Mintz, one of Universal’s men. He also told Disney that if he did not accept the offer that he would take all his animators. To Walt’s shock 11/14 of his animators already secretly signed a contract with Mintz, Ub was 1 of the 3 that did not sign. Universal was ready to make Oswald without Walt, infact they technically owned all the rights to Oswald anyways. Mintz offered to pay all Walt’s expenses and he only had to sign another partner contract with Universal. Therefore with signing the contract he would agree to forming Universal Disney Studio but, Walt strongly appealed. Sadly, Universal backed up Mintz when they received Disney’s appeal. Walt made a special visit to Mintz office after he received the news and threw his badge along with Oswald on Mintz desk and yelled, “He’s all yours!” Mintz questioned Walt’s tactics as he said “ How will you get by without Oswald?” But Walt was confident in himself as he said “Plenty more where that came from.” And boy was Disney right because it was only beginning, with what started with a mouse. Back when Walt lived in Kansas City before he went bankrupt, was up working late one night. Suddenly, a lonely mouse appeared on his desk. Since Walt loved animals, and was infact quite lonely himself, he decided...
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...was a man named Walt Disney: a loving son, husband, brother, and most of all “Dad” to his two sweet baby girls. Above everything in his life, family always came first. With a strong family bond and home life full of harmony and love, Walt Disney challenged himself to dream, explore, and create many things throughout his career. In an article written by Scott Whitelaw, Scott states, “I have a deep admiration for Walt Disney and loved his approach and method of accomplishing his goals and dreams. He dared to dream big but learned to be daring a little bit at a time. He started with small goals. First, he built a studio in Kansas City, Missouri, then a bigger one in Hollywood, then a massive studio in Burbank, California, then a theme park in Anaheim and then an entire city in Florida. Walt learned to set his goals one step at a time using his imagination focused toward the future and having fun along the way.” (Whitelaw, 2014) So, in the following paragraphs, Walt Disney can be portrayed to achieving many of his goals in life....
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...very special innovator who pioneered one of the world’s most unique and amazing dreams. I would absolutely love to meet Walter Disney, a creative, optimistic, and imaginative dreamer, because of his astonishing talent and successful life, his optimism and love for animation and creativity, and finally all the hard work and dreams put into his very own glorious Disneyland. This essay will better explain the reasons why I long to meet this talented man and may even have you yearning to meet him too. I think it would be amazing to meet Walt Disney, because of his terribly successful life and miraculous talent. This skilled man has won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Academy Honorary Award, Congressional Gold Medal, and the Grammy Trustees Award. This may seem like quite a few awards for one man to achieve in one lifetime, but believe me this isn't even half of Disney’s prizes. Disney had lots of talent and was most definitely not one to hide it. When he was only a small boy he was already selling his attention-stealing drawings to his neighbors who were baffled at the thought of a young boy being the artist of such imaginative pictures. Another thing Walter...
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...Finally! It is that time of the year again… family vacation! You pack your bags and get on a plane all the way down to sunny Florida. Once you arrive in the MCO (Orlando Airport) you realize that you are going to Disney World! You start celebrating, along with some thinking; why am I so excited to go to Disney World, Orlando? Before graphic designers and architects even started thinking of what the magical park would look like, they had to do the most important job first; decide where this giant theme park would be! Locational Interdependence theory. They had to decide the best location and understand that the success of Disney would depend on tourism in Orlando. These designers were using factors that were already given, such as weather,...
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...Innovation Leadership: Intuitive Surgical Leadership Model Intuitive Surgical utilizes the transformational leadership model. Transformational leadership helps management promote motivation, morale, and job performance. Under this leadership, employees and management will be able to help each other grow, which in turn helps the company become more innovative. In comparison to other leadership styles such as applying Nayar’s Employee First, Customer Second (EFCS) culture, Intuitive Surgical falls into a different business industry that acts as a monopoly. In these types of cases, things fall into one roof meaning the company’s goals should be passed down from top to bottom. Some strategies that Intuitive Surgical practiced to ensure success in the organization was to follow strategic objectives that helped growth within the company especially when their 2016 patents expire (Hoffman, 2010). According to Hoffman, the company’s objectives were to focus on key objectives, develop industry alliances, focus on key institutions, focus on leading surgeons to drive rapid and broad adoption, maintain market leadership, and increase patient awareness. By creating industry alliances, companies can collaborate with each other to create innovative ideas together so that the best products can be produced. Under developing industry alliances, Intuitive Surgical “will continue to establish strategic alliances with leader medical device companies… in areas of product development, training, and...
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...Angel Pelaez Mrs. Larsen AP Language, Period 3 21 November 2014 Disney Research Paper In society, gender roles (a set of social and behavioral norms that are widely considered to be socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex) are everywhere. For a long time men and women had to do certain things throughout their lives. It was expect that men would be the ones that had to work, while their wives had to stay home to take care of the house, the kids, bills, etc. Over time, these gender roles have changed. Females now take on tasks that only men were supposed to do. Gender roles appear in places that one wouldn’t expect: Disney movies. Disney movies do a great job at showing how gender roles were portrayed at the time the movie came out. Most notably, in these movies, males fulfill a certain appearance stereotype (tall, muscular, handsome, etc.). The same stereotype applies to females as well (makeup, being slim, posture, etc.). In Disney movies, the male protagonist is almost always good-looking, muscular, tall, etc. An example of this is Prince Eric from the Little Mermaid movie. In the movie, he’s tall, light-skinned, muscular, and handsome. He’s almost “perfect”. In the essay ....Happily Ever After (Or What Fairy Tales teach Girls about being Women) Alice Neikirk states “the hero, often a prince, is generally described as brave and handsome.” Over time, the appearance of the male protagonists have changed. For example, Flynn Rider from Tangled is just a slim, not...
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...employment, product and services, publicity and sales. Retail paper and plastic bags are common packaging tools in the market but due to environmental issues and the public’s awareness more people are decided to use retail paper bag instead of plastic. Paper bags are used for many things, to put up lunches for kids, to bring in the groceries, to take out the trash, to hold the things and help us stay organized. Many markets have switched from plastic bags to paper bags. Paper bags are less expensive. Cost Effectiveness is one of the reasons why they prefer paper bag other than plastic bag. Many vendors and consumers have complained about using plastic bags to put their goods. Some market and grocery stores now give a choice between paper bags or plastic bags. Some Smart shoppers choose to use paper bags instead of plastic assuming that it is an environmentally friendly and better alternative. Paper Bags are usually made up of plant fibers substance from fibrous cellulose materials as rags, woods, or barks. Paper bags were invented in the 1850’s. Paper bags are recyclable. Well known grocery stores, supermarkets, fast food chain, establishment and markets uses brown paper bags to hold their items since there are laws that are implemented to ban the usage of plastic bags in some provinces and cities in the Philippines. Paper bags can easily be disposed and not a harmful thing in the environment...
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...writing. In fact, the three universities that I have attended in the past have all required me to use the APA style of writing. As I recall my high school years, the APA style of writing also seemed to be a favorite amongst my high school teachers. They all required that term papers be written in APA style as well. This type of writing actually does not differ much from the ones included in the text reading. The text mentioned the APA style of writing several times. In my opinion, it appears to be the most popular style of writing, especially amongst college students. Based on the results of the quizzes, my grammar skills were actually a little better than average. I actually had expected to do better, but I guess my grammar skills are not as good as I thought they were. In any event I feel very confident when it comes to spelling, as I have always been a great speller. Even in grade school, I was a good speller. I learned at a very young age to challenge myself when it comes to spelling. Challenging my-self in that area really paid off as I became older, as I’ve never had a problem with spelling. However, I feel that I need more help with run on sentences and with thought patterns. Though I proof read my paper several times, it’s hard for me to see that I have several run on sentences until after I get my grade back. In general, I feel that my writing is just mediocre. However, I also believe that when it comes to writing, I am my own worst critic. Reason being, I am never...
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...computer and communications equipment (owned by MIS) magnetic media (owned by Manager) power supplies and plant, such as air-conditioning units (owned by MIS) Software assets (owned by MIS) • • • • application software system software development tools utilities Information assets (owned by Manager or MIS) ‘Information’ means information held by the Company on its own behalf and that entrusted to it by others. The following are examples of the media which may contain or comprise information assets. • • • • • • • • • • databases and data files system documentation user manuals training material operational or support procedures continuity plans and fallback arrangements back-up media on-line magnetic media off-line magnetic media paper Services • • computing and communications services (owned by MIS) heating, lighting and power (owned by Manager or Building Services Manager) 1 17/01/03 First•Base Technologies Town Hall Chambers High Street Shoreham-by-Sea West Sussex BN43 5DD UK Tel: +44 (01273 454 525 Fax: +44 (0)1273 454 526 info@firstbase.co.uk Guidance on Information Classification Categories for classifying document security Category 1 : Routine (non-confidential) documents Description: All documents of a routine nature. Effects of disclosure: No measurable damage to the company or a department. Examples: Normal memos, routine reports, circulars. Estimated occurrence of this classification: More than 80% of all documents would be within this class...
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