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The Ride of a Lifetime is a self-written biography about and by Robert Iger. Robert Iger was the CEO of Disney while he was writing it and had been working in the media industry for 40 years. The book tells the tale of his journey to and as Disney CEO and what lessons he learned in the industry that led him to that point.  The book has been on my backlog of books I have wanted to read for a long time but it has become even more important as Iger enters his second tenure as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. As the current company goes through its ups and downs, it is interesting to read the origin of how current Disney thinks about the creative process, from the man at the top. The book describes Iger's ideas about being a creative CEO and how he believes in one thing over anything: innovate or die.  The book starts with Iger dealing with the most recent crisis to the book's writing. In 2016 two crises happened in Orlando as Iger was in China for the opening of the first Chinese ...

This clip is a short news clip I made for class during the spring 2023 semester.   

  In a large ballroom in Houston Texas, two men sit across from each other on a large stage. There is a large monitor between them and a crowd of jeering people behind them, they both are playing the game Street Fighter 6 on the largest stage Texas has to offer. The game comes down to the very last round but a Dallas native under the the gamer name of Coosco clutches out a close set to move on in the tournament.  They are both at a tournament called Texas Showdown, held in Houston, Texas every year. This is the biggest tournament in Texas and it means a lot to Coosco who has been working to win it all. He has been a pillar of the fighting game community and looks to become more than that during each tournament he travels to. From the beginning Micheal “Coosco” Henderson is a Player and community figure for the fighting game community from Dallas, Texas. He originally started playing fighting games as a kid but was inspired when he watched the largest Fighting game in the world...