Title: Walt Disney
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Description:  What you didn't know about him.
  
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 It always shocks me that when you look on a map, your country looks so small in comparison with another. Well, except for Russia and Greenland. They're both pretty big.
Anyway, I always thought the United States was so big. Heh, heh. Not. I've always though there was only the USA in the universe. And that was just child thinking is all. Anyway, then I found out about states. And the one I want to visit more than all of them, is California.
So naturally, I'm doing an essay on a man who lived in California for some time. Maybe you've heard of him, Walt Disney.

 Walt Disney was born in 1901. His family lived on a farm for a few years and later moved to Kansas City Missouri, where his father bought a paper route. Life was hard for Walt. He had to get up at 3:30 so he could deliver papers. But on Saturdays, after delivering papers, Walt took art lessons.

 The Disneys eventually moved to Chicago, where Mr. Disney invested in a jelly factory. Walt worked in the factory, but also found time to study cartooning by mail. 
 
 By the age of eighteen, Walt had decieded to become an artist. He packed his bags, gave his savings to his mother for safekeeping, and headed back to Kansas City to get a job at the *Kansas City Star*.

 To his dissapiontment, Walt didn't get a job on the art staff of the *Star* when he arrived in Kansas City in 1919.
But he did find a job with the Gray Advertising Company, making sketches for thier catalog.

 When advertising slowed down, Walt was laid off. He worked at the post office. 
Just before Christmas, Ub Iwerks, a fellow artist, came to see Walt.Ub had also been laid off.
They decieded to go into buissness together, doing cartoons, and letterheads.