Millionaire

In 1996, the book “The Millionaire Next Door” exposed the long-held secret of millionaires in America. Their secret? With the exception of a handful, most millionaires don’t live like the superstar millionaires on TV do. Instead, they look like regular guys and they work regular jobs. And yet, they manage to amass up to $10 million or more in money and assets. If you’re asking yourself how this is possible, it may be that their millionaire tricks have eluded you. But that doesn’t mean it’s too late for you: You can obtain a bank balance worthy of the millionaire next door. However, you first need to understand why you may never gain financial freedom and then take steps to correct your habits. Here are three ways to do it. 1. Your Budget…

The book Automatic Millionaire by David Bach has taught me so many different ways to become rich from a young age, let alone in ways that you can start late and still finish rich, which happens to be the title of another book. I never really thought about being a millionaire until after reading this book. The best thing about this book was that it showed me what I was already doing right, and what I needed to work on to perfect my goal of being a millionaire. My previous thoughts on how to…

Once again, director, Danny Boyle has combined drama and crime with a pinch of romance and created a British film called Slumdog Millionaire. The film is written by Simon Beaufoy and produced by Christian Colson. The movie is yet another example of rags-to-riches, it is about a Muslim boy named Jamal Malik, who grew up on the streets of Mumbai, India with his older brother Salim Malik, as they lost their mother in an anti-Muslim riot. Jamal and Salim met a little pretty girl of their age called…

poorest areas of Mumbai. Who has been most affected by the global economic and political practices set in motion by European colonialism. In Slumdog Millionaire, Jamal can be seen as having a loss of identity. Jamal works in a call center a set example of a globalized service where he even has a phone conversation with a customer in the UK (the country that oppressed India for generations) when asked if he is from abroad, Jamal uses a fake accents and answers that he is in fact from the UK and…

The book “The Millionaire Nest Door” is about the millionaires of America and their lifestyle. The authors went to investigate on how millionaires get wealthy and how they stay that way. They wondered are most of the millionaires from rich families that get inheritance from their parents. Do the millionaires of this county live in big houses with numerous foreign cars? Do millionaires buy thousand dollar suits and watches? Do they by no means have to worry about budgeting and investing their…

Finley Hodson depicts the vast contrasting representations of poverty between the major feature film Slumdog Millionaire and Kevin McClouds Slumming It. One million people, one square mile. This is the desperate reality of the living conditions in India’s largest slum, Dharavi. Danny Boyles, Slumdog Millionaire, the 2008 drama, glosses over the issue of poverty and is represented in a fun, free spirit way. Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum, Kevin McClouds Slumming it, filmed in 2009,…

Children grow up protected from harm by their parents. The closest one was ever close to danger, was when one scraped their knees or had the flu; but imagine a life where the least dangerous activity to do was play on a tarmac with planes flying towards one and the most dangerous being in the middle of a war. This is the life of a child who grows up in the slums of Mumbai, India. Slumdog Millionaire is a British Drama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Simon Beaufoy in 2008. Slumdog…

thinking as you opened this blog post and read that headline. Millionaires live lavishly in huge mansions, drive expensive cars and eat at fancy restaurants every night. Growing up watching MTV Cribs and seeing how celebrities and athletes lived I assumed every millionaire had this lifestyle. I was completely wrong and unaware of how the average millionaire moves. Reading The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley was extremely eye-opening for me. I highly recommend this book for anyone…

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) directed by Danny Boyle, and City of God (2002) directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund are both critically acclaimed films that have won multiple awards and changed the scope of the cinematic world. These films are similar in that they follow storylines set in incredibly poor areas of the world-the Juhu slums in Mumbai, and the housing projects outside Rio de Janeiro- and follow the protagonist’s escape from their desolate communities. However, while both films…

Slumdog Millionaire, a movie by Danny Boyle, set in Mumbai, tells the story of Jamal Malik, a contestant on India’s version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’. Jamal was born in the slums of Mumbai with little education and was on his way to win the grand prize on the game show. Whilst on the show, he is suspected of cheating but little do his accusers know that Jamal’s life experience provides him with essential clues to answer each question. The movie alternates between flashbacks from Jamal’s…