João Gilberto

The Ants, a short story written in 1986, shows similarities to another document: The First History of Brazil from 1587. Additionally, the story also shows similarities to Jungian psychology with regard to the dwarf. The ants in the short story are rebuilding the dwarf skeleton, which can be read as the girls’ fear of exploring their own unconsciousness and inner beings. At the beginning of the story, The Ants, there are two young girls who find a dwarf skeleton that had been hidden by an old…

made commercials with cutout animation. Once Disney started to experiment more with cameras he opened up a business of his own. He asked Fred Harman who he met at the Ad Company to be his first employee. They began to show their cartoons called Laugh-O-Grams at the…

Disney was the fourth son of Elias and Flora Disney. He was one of the 5 children, four boys and a girl. Walt experimented with cameras and later decided to open his own business which was Laugh-O-Grams. The business grew enormously popular. In that time, Alice’s Wonderland was created. However, in 1923 Laugh-O-Grams Disney claimed bankruptcy. Soon, Disney and his Brother Roy moved to Hollywood and created Disney Brothers Studio. Disney soon created films…

The Walt Disney Animators’ Strike of 1941 During the early 1930s, unions began to organize in almost every industry across the United States, including the Hollywood entertainment industry. Unions for actors, directors, stagehands, and writers sprung up to unify laborers and collectively bargain for better working conditions. The Screen Cartoonist’s Guild was formed in 1938 to organize the previously unrepresented cartoonists and animators in Hollywood. The Guild enjoyed success during its…

contract and having hired most of Disney’s animators on board with the project, M.J. Winkle was able to produce the series at a lower cost, shunning Disney away from his own creation. Just as he did at the closing of his first animation studio, Laugh-O-Gram, Disney steered separately and continued moving forward. The experienced failures in his endeavors were not defeats, rather necessary steps to enabling the beginning of his…

Walt Disney: The Man Behind Mickey Mouse. Have you ever been told, you would not be able to succeed at what you have dreamed of doing? Well my friend, you are not alone. Walt Disney was told by so many people that he would not succeed, or he was told he would have a career, but it would not last very long at all. However, he proved them all wrong. Walt Disney may have ended his life on a high note of success, but he struggled all throughout his childhood, early, and adult life. Walt Disney…

Thesis: He signed a deal with Universal to make cartoon a cartoon "Oswald the Rabbit." Walt Disney lost his newly found Disney Bros studio, cartoonist, and characters such as Oswald the Rabbit and Alice to Universal Studios in a contract loophole then, in turn, he created Walt Disney Studios. This changed entertainment forever with things such as for Mickey Mouse. Background: In 1901, Walt Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois. At a young age he found his passion of art in Marceline, Missouri.…

Disney is a liar! It lies about truths in its media. Furthermore, my topics of argument are social, cultural, and historical aspects of Disney’s media. These are present in High School Musical, Aladdin, and Pocahontas. In order to increase educational value, Disney should improve the accuracy of the social, historical, and cultural aspects of their media. Disney lies about social life of kids and teenagers in their media. Disney’s media stays away from the truths of real social life, and the…

Raymond’s Carver is an American writer that wrote the short story, “Cathedral,” that uses a first person point of view narration in which the narrator fundamentally transforms and is enlightened with a self-realization. The story transitions in a change in the tone of the narrator as being sarcastic, judgmental, and insulting in which he experiences an epiphany and has a brighter perception. The story begins with the feeling of apprehension of the gathering of his wife’s friend Robert who is…

Character Analysis (Cathedral) The “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver. The unnamed narrator who is also the husband undergoes an emotional change throughout the story. The narrator's wife used to work for a blind man called Robert whose wife sadly died of cancer, and he is coming to visit the narrator and his wife, but the narrator is not happy about the visit. All because in his shallow mind, he thinks blind people are dirty and miserable. Sadly, enough he got this feeling from what he has seen…