Disney Vacation Club

The Life and Accomplishments of Walt Disney The name Disney is a name that almost everyone has heard before. While a majority of the population does not know much about Walt Disney himself, his legacy lives on and continues to impact the lives of many people today. The name Disney brings back many happy childhood memories and has a positive connotation for many people. Through his work in animation, film making, and creation of the theme park, Disneyland, he has left a lasting marking on…

Working with the Walt Disney Company has always been a dream of mine. I accomplished that dream a little over two years ago when I started as a normal part time Cast Member at the Disneyland Resort. Due to unforeseen circumstance I had to leave the Disney in order to focus more time and effort on schooling. Eventually I came around to my junior year at Biola and started looking into the possibilities of applying for internships. It is then that I came across the Disney College Program website.…

What started as a father-son project back in 1974 has since grown to be the most-trusted dock-building business in the Savannah, GA, area. Monty Walker started Monty Walker Dock Building after recognizing his passion and natural talent for the craft of dock building when he was only 12 years old. Today, he works with his 10-man crew to design, build, and repair personal docks throughout the area. Monty is committed to quality craftsmanship and customer service. When he was 12, Monty’s summer…

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is a comedy film produced by Jeremiah Chechik in 1989, starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, and Randy Quaid. This film is a slapstick comedy with some elements of clown comedy. This film uses comedic elements to create a comedic mood. Also, the director uses a family to create a more relatable experience so the comedy elements appear more comedic. The comedy elements used involve more physical comedy. In this film Clark…

Land and Sea Walt Disney once said, “Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional” (“A Quote by Walt Disney”). With this in mind, he began a franchise that started with cartoons and full-length animated movies and progressed into vacation experiences for the young and young at heart. Disney’s first foray into a family recreation venue was Disneyland. A little over 40 years later, Disney’s first cruise ship set sail. While either a Disneyland or Disney cruise vacation would be…

Walt Disney Walt Disney was the founder of Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida. He was also one of the founders of Disney Studios. This interests me because ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved Disney World. Everytime my parents ask where I want to go on vacation, I always say Disney World. Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1906, Walt and his family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri. On this farm is where Walt Disney first…

They see that they are unsatisfied when trying to achieve the male American dream and have no gratification in their lives. Fight Club members see that their job does not define them but often in the male American dream, a man’s job is his value. Through the constant pressure to conform to society’s standards, the male loses his true identity and becomes a slave to working for the male American dream, giving him no sense of self, worth or pride therefore losing masculinity and identity by only…

The Synonymy Of Madness And Sexism In Fincher’s Fight Club And Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” The presence of gender roles is undeniable in the 1999 movie Fight Club and the Victorian poem “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning. Both works have an unnamed narrator on a quest for masculinity through power and violence. While the behavior of the narrators in Fight club and “Porphyria’s Lover” appears to be proof of their madness, it is actually used to demonstrate the skewed view of masculinity in…

follow them. In the TV show, Sons of Anarchy, Jackson Teller, Vice President, is a part of a biker club that gets involved with the drug mafia and many other biker clubs. Every day they risk their lives and the lives of their families by being a part of this club. He does everything in his power to protect his wife, son, and mother. During the show his son gets kidnapped by one of the other biker clubs, and he has to investigate and search for his son. He travels all the way to Ireland in hopes…

We all have our favorite movies. We chose them because maybe we can relate to the plot on a personal level, or they take us to a different world on an adventure for a while. In The Breakfast Club, the director John Hughes uses music, dialogue and backstory to bring out the similarities the kids have behind social barriers because he wants people watching to see how no matter how different people seem, we may have more in common than meets the eye. Music plays a big role throughout this classic…