Walter Elias Disney

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Walter Elias Disney had an interest in drawing and coloring and was passionate to achieve his goals. Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in a farm helping his father. At the farm there was animals that was later showed in his disney cartoons (Gale 1). Disney had fascinating drawing from childhood and he did not give up his passion. Disney dropped out of high school to serve in World War I, but later acquired some rudimentary art instruction from correspondence courses and Saturday Museum classes (Gale 1-2). Disney wanted to serve in the army and help out but he was not old enough to so he went to art classes and become more enhanced at drawing

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