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The title of the text is, “The Bath: What We Talk about When We Talk about Love.” It is written by Raymond Carver and the primary characters are Scotty, his mom, Mrs. Ann Weiss, his dad, who was referred to mostly as the father in the story. The story concerns a boy called Scotty who will soon celebrate his 8th year birthday. In preparation for the birthday, his mom went to the baker’s shop to order his spaceship chocolate cake, which will be ready on Monday morning before the birthday starts…

Jon Krakauer tells of how a close friend of his wife and himself had been twice sexually assaulted by someone they knew. Shocked Jon Krakauer seeks to find out more about these occurrences and this leads him to Missoula, Montana, the titular town of the book and how it came to be known as “The Rape Capital” of the United States. He begins by explaining the importance of college football to this community and how the pride they took in the sport led to the veneration of star athletes. He…

Walt Disney started off as a farm boy drawing cartoon pictures of his neighbour’s horses for fun. When he was older, Walt tried to get a job as a newspaper cartoonist, but was unable to find one and ended up working in an art studio where he created ads for newspapers and magazines. Eventually he grew to work on commercials, became interested in animation, and eventually opened his own animation company which has become one of the most successful businesses in the world. Walt Disney's childhood…

ifer Lucas Professor Broadus LTED 3513-002 10 October 2017 Crafting of Bud, Not Buddy Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, takes place in Flint, Michigan and Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is about a boy who lost his mother at an early age and was placed in foster care. With a poster in his suitcase his mother gave to him, he set out on a search for his father, based off what the poster had said. In order for Bud to get to the places he needs to go, he lies throughout his journey. The author…

The Outsiders is written by S.E Hinton and the movie is directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is about a group of boys from the age from 14 to 20 that live on other side of the track’s of Oklahoma. In the group there are three brothers, they all live together ever since the boy's parents died. All the boys have their backgrounds like Ponyboy likes to read and watch movies and likes to do sports. Sodapop likes to go to the horse barns and ride his horse Mickey Mouse and he works at a gas station.…

Claude Monet played an essential role in the development of Impressionism. He created many paintings by capturing the art of nature from the world around him. He was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. Later, his family moved to Le Havre, Normandy, France because of his father’s business. Claude Monet did drawings of nature in Normandy and time spent along the beaches, observing nature. As a child, his father had always wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but he found…

“Fat” by Raymond Carver is the first short story in a collection called Will You Please Be Quiet, Please. Carver intrigued me because of his unique style of writing and captivated me from the first short story I read. This short story is a conversation between the narrator and her friend Rita, as she serves a fat man in the diner where they both work. The story, whilst seemingly is a ‘slice of life’ everyday mundane observation, slowly becomes more uncomfortable and unsettles dark secrets that…

Illustration in Disney In this essay I am going to be talking about illustration in Disney. I am mainly going to be writing about Carl Barks (the creator of Disney’s Scrooge McDuck) and Paul Murry (a co-creator of Goofy (along with Walt Disney and Art Babbitt) Both of these artists created famous Disney classic characters and they also are both Disney comic artists. I have chosen these two artists because I am very interested in the field of illustration, Disney and these specific characters.…

Walter Elias Disney was often described as “The great American motion-picture and television producer and showman, famous as a pioneer of cartoon films and as the creator of Disneyland” (Walt Disney Biography). Disney was very successful in his life time and still is to this day cherished and looked up to by so many young kids and adults alike. Walt has been my top motivation for quite a while, not only because he is one of the most successful animators in history, but because no matter what…

Edwin Catmull’s entire life has been based around his love for animation. As a little kid, Ed would wait for Walt Disney to come appear on Sundays on his black and white 12” television. He called it the, “Disney Magic”. Walt Disney was on of Catmull’s boyhood idols. The other idol that he had as a child was Albert Einstein. He explained, in his autobiography, the reason he probably looked up to these two men. He felt that they both represented creativity, just in different ways. Disney…