Chris Gardner

stronger. Chris Gardner from the film ‘The Pursuit Of Happiness’ directed by Mucciano and, Billy Blunkett from ‘The Simple Gift’ written by Herrick, they both deal with similar struggles and up’s and down’s. But the both characters become stronger with the pain, which they both face in their life. Chris and Billy both face homelessness yet they overcome this on their road to finding happiness. Chris is plagued by many life obstacles that lead to hardship between the family relationships. Chris…

The Pursuit of Happyness is a movie based on the life of Chris Gardner, a salesperson with a strong commitment to his family. As Gardner struggles to get ahead, he faces countless adversities and found strength in knowing that he is going through this to make a better life for his son. Although Gardner and his son became homeless, he had a desire to have a better life. He also managed to find moments to help shape and mold his son’s education with teachable moments. Like in this movie, I found…

Christopher is playing basketball Chris tells him ” You want something? Go get it. Period. You need to protect it.” Chris is was talking about our right to pursue happiness, experience life, and feel liberated. Chris had been evicted, broke, homeless, and was staying in a restroom at a subway station. After he lands a 6 month internship, the other 19 interns would work late, but Chris left early every day to make sure his son would have a place to sleep at the homeless shelter. Chris articulated…

When one’s professor asks them to define a word, anyone would think that’s not so hard to do. Oh, but it was the constant over thinking with a million and one ideas entering their brain but none quite fitting to what they wanted to say. Finally, something clicked and they realized the words they wanted to use to described the word perfectly. Opportunity, the one thing everyone needs to make it in life. Opportunity means a chance at a new beginning, a chance at development and wisdom.…

Laws of Life In soccer every player must have a special ability like strength, speed, passing or dribbling, unfortunately I did not know what ability I had. So, when I was six I tried out for my local youth soccer academy. Believing I was pretty good for my age, but I came to realize that I was wrong. It turned out that the other kids trying out had much more talent than I did, and all I was doing was just going up and down chasing the ball. I was struggling and it got to the point where I just…

An ‘epic’ poem is a lyrical narrative about a significant event. An epic poem usually features a hero and is a way to record the history of a culture. The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem created by Homer around750 B.C. that illustrates the Trojan War. To give a thorough, detailed, and specific view of the literature, this essay will respond to the meaning Areté; explain why Achilles, hero of the Iliad, cannot fully live in Areté; clarify, specifically, how that manifests against Hector;…

Inspired by a true story, the film The Pursuit of Happiness is about a hardworking salesman and father named Chris Gardner. Throughout the whole movie, you see his journey from being a broke and homeless salesman to a millionaire stockbroker. In the beginning of the movie, his wife Linda, and their son, Christopher, are both introduced and we see that they lived in San Francisco, California. Chris’s occupation was attempting to sell an expensive, portable Osteo National bone-density scanners…

American Dream Is the American dream still alive and do people still achieve it successfully? Do people all dream about it? The American dream is the belief that anyone even if they were born in a high-class family or poor family, can achieve their own success in a society that it is possible for everyone. Although there are specific values that help people achieve the American Dream such as; individual freedom, work hard, and competition, people succeed if they are self-reliant and have…

Title rough copy Although their situations are very different Ishmael in the novel A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and Chris from the film The Pursuit Of Happyness directed by Gabriele Muccino both exhibit similarities in their journey to success. To begin both characters Chris and Ishmael both lose their homes in their journey. Ishmael is forced to leave his home because of the war that has broke out, he is accepting to go back to his home and see his family once the war is over; As I was…

the case of salesman, Chris Gardner (played by Oscar nominated actor, Will Smith). He struggles to cope with financial stability while raising his five-year-old son, Chris Jr. (played by Jaden Smith, ironically Will 's real life son). Just when things were already difficult enough, Chris and his son face more even…