Walt Disney Commemorative Speech

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Kevin Zoul Comm 2030 April 6, 2011 Walt Disney Commemorative Speech Imagine back when you were just a kid. How simple times were back then. All you had to do all day was play with your toys. Think about all those hours spent making up game after game. It didn’t matter if you had the world’s most expensive toy or a cardboard box. We had imagination. Unfortunately as we grow older we lose that imagination. One man in particular was able to not only keeps his, but share it with the world. Walt Disney was able to create a world in which fairytales and cartoons would be loved for decades. He was a creative genius. Walt Disney deserves to be honored because of all the joy he has brought so many of us. He started the company that brought us so many wonderful movies, TV shows, and amusement parks. He was the original voice of Mickey Mouse, perhaps the most successful cartoon character of all time. It’s hard to imagine that such great films such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo and Peter Pan were created by the man himself back in the 1930’s and 1940’s. He created Disneyland and Disneyworld, one of the world’s first theme parks, for children and adults to enjoy together. The Walt Disney Company today has annual revenue of $35 billion dollars. Walt has been awarded 26 Academy Awards out of 59 nominations. Both are the most for any one individual. He has also been awarded 7 Emmys to go along with that. Now when we think of Walt Disney we usually think of the movies and TV shows he brought us but there was so much more to him. He was a loving husband and father of two which drove him to create his company as such a family oriented place. He was a hard working man that was good to his employees. He also was a strong supporter of the United States during World War II and the cold war, commonly joining in on the

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