.... in 1918. Walt wanted to join his brother, but he was too young. Instead he applied for an ambulance driver and ended up in France. In 1919 Walt came back to the US (Finch 40). When he returned new he wanted to pursue a career in the commercial arts fields, so he got a job at a local studio. At the age of 18 Disney already had basic training in animation. He started making Laugh-O-Grams, which were short commercials and illustrated jokes. Walt then started his own company called Laugh-O-Grams. This is were Walt produced a series of updated fairy tales some of these included: Cinderella, Goldie Locks And The Three Bears, and Puss in Boots. These .....

.... also visits many people and places that force him to mature quickly. One of these places is the museum in Brooklyn, where Asher first sees the work of non-Jewish artists (page 134). This choice to tour the art museum without the permission of his parents was the first conscious decision Asher makes to disregard his Jewish background for the sake of what he loves: Art. Asher begins a student-teacher relationship with Jacob Kahn, a non-observant Jew. Asher has the choice of disregarding Jacob's invitation to study with him, or calling him. Asher chooses to call Jacob (page 190), which in turn leads him on a journey to neglecting his parent's .....

.... debt to the bank. Elizabeth loved attention from men when she was a teenager and she liked to be talked about, even if the talk didn't compliment her. Her sisters were jealous of her most of the time. Even their parents lavished affection on her. To put it plainly, Elizabeth was spoiled. She always went her own way and damned anyone who tried to stop her. After winning an ice skating contest with an incredibly revealing costume, a man named Harvey Doe began courting her. Soon after, they decided to be married. There were disapproving glances at the wedding from both mothers. The wedding was on June 27, 1877. After honeymooning in Denver, Colo .....

.... not surrender to that "jealous demon, my wretched health" before proving to himself and the world the extent of his skill. Thus, faced with su!ch great impending loss, Beethoven, keeping faith in his art and ability, states in his Heiligenstadt Testament a promise of his greatness yet to be proven in the development of his heroic style. By about 1800, Beethoven was mastering the Viennese High-Classic style. Although the style had been first perfected by Mozart, Beethoven did extend it to some degree. He had unprecedently composed sonatas for the cello which in combination with the piano opened the era of the Classic-Romantic cello sonata. In addition .....

.... in his life, Luther explained his suprising decision by recollecting several brushes with death that had occurred at the time, making him aware of the fleeting character of life. In the monastery he observed the rules imposed on a novice but did not find the peace in God he had expected. Nevertheless, Luther made his profession as a monk in the fall of 1506, and his superiors selected him for the priesthood. Ordained in 1507, he approached his first celebration of the mass with awe. After his ordination, Luther was asked to study theology in order to become a professor at one of the many new German universities staffed by monks. In 1508 he was assi .....

.... his belief in the power and the duty of the individual to determine right from wrong… “It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.� (C.D.) In addition, Thoreau believed that his greatest skill was to “want but little� (Walden). During his time at Walden, Thoreau determines what is needed for human survival as he learns to take pleasure in a life of simplicity and solitude. He .....

.... Always questioning people but never writing down what he learned. All the information that we have learned from him have been from other people talking about him, for he never wrote anything down himself. After learning that some of the church’s beliefs were all wrong, he started to tell people this and they looked at him in a whole new manor. He went from seeming very dignified to just another poor commoner on the street. Once more and more people learned about him, they began to stay away from him, forbidding their kids to listen to a word that he said, for he was contridicting everything that Athens has stood for and known their wh .....

.... in the quote "Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind." People can mess with every other part of you, but your mind they can't reach. Emerson is quoted as saying "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle." I think that he means that each and every person has their own life to live and that they shouldn't devote their time to worrying about what other people are doing. You have enough to worry about with what's going on in your own lives. Emerson believes that when you express what you are feeling on the inside, most people will be able to relate with what you are feeling. He tells us this in the quote "Speak your latent .....

.... tuberculosis. Ravaged by the disease and worn out with the struggle to support her children, she died. Edgar, two years old, and the infant, Rosalie, were orphaned. It was on a visit of charity that Mrs. Frances Allan, the wife of a rising merchant in Richmond, learned of the plight of the Poe babies. She had no children of her own and so was the more attracted to handsome little Edgar. She took him home with her, and another family took Rosalie. This was in 1811, long before Juvenile Courts and official custody of orphaned children. Mrs. Allan would have liked to adopt Edgar, but her husband was unwilling to commit himself to a step .....

.... inspired him and in July 1879 he received his doctoral degree at the age of twenty-one. He became a lecturer at the University of Munich. His father helped him be promoted to associate professor at Kiel by means of professional connections. At the age of thirty he was promoted to full professor at the University of Berlin. After he decided to become a theoretical physicist he started a quest for absolute laws. His favorite absolute law was the law of the conservation of energy which was the first law of thermodynamics that stated that you could take any equal amount of energy and transform it into the same equal amount of energy ideally, mea .....