[PeterMac]

Walt Disney has impacted my life,indirectly of course, in several ways. His movies have entertained me and my family over the years many times. His resort, Walt Disneyworld,has given me a place of recreation and entertainment that also sparks our imaginations. Finally, he stands as an example of how failure can be overcome, and challenges met(and even exceeded),by believing in yourself and doing the hard work to make the chances you take pay off. As a young man he went to california with no money and a partly completed fim("Alice in Wonderland), and founded his own studio. When his first successful animated creation(Oswald) was "stolen from him", he created Mickey Mouse,and sold his car to help launch the character. When he decided to make his first feature animated film, they called it "Disney's Folly",and he went $2 million in debt to finance it. That film became Snow White. Finally, he decided to build an amusement park, and everyone said he was crazy: what would a film studio do in the amusement park business? Again he had to scramble to pay for it,again risking his studio and personal fortune. that's how Disneyland was born. We can all take inspiration from the life of this great man!