The Pursuit of Happyness

An optimistic growth minded man named Will Smith once stated, “If you’re not making someone else’s life better, than you are wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other people’s lives better.” Now what exactly is being growth minded? Holding a growth mindset is believing that intelligence can be developed, that the brain can be grown and strengthened, like a muscle that can be trained. This leads to your desire to improve. Therefore a tendency to, embrace challenges, persists…

Under the Constitution of Independence, American citizens are granted many rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happyness. These rights, as poet Ralph Waldo Emerson explains, makes America the land of opportunity, “America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.” American is…

One of example of this is the movie, The Pursuit of Happyness. It is about a man and his son who are homeless while the father is trying to get a stable job to provide for his family. The affluent businessmen look down on him at first for not being wealthy like them, but later realize his potential as…

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.…

“Blue Ocean V19” is a song by rapper Jaden Smith. Jaden Smith is well known as actor Will Smith’s son. Also, Jaden Smith has starred in a number of movies with his father such as Pursuit of Happyness and After Earth. Will Smith’s daughter, Willow Smith, was also featured on the song providing background vocals. Jaden Smith has released several mixtapes and 2 albums. Blue Ocean V19 was released through Willow Smith’s “SoundCloud” account. I think Blue Ocean is about a Jaden Smith’s…

In his 2006 movie, The Pursuit of Happyness, Will Smith portrays impoverished single father Chris Gardner as he moves through the five levels of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This hierarchy theorizes basic needs that are required in order to reach happiness in life. The search for fulfillment is not a journey experienced by Gardner alone. Peace prize winner Hermann Hesse’s 1922 novel Siddhartha tells the story of a young man who experiences the various levels of Maslow’s hierarchy before…

“The first step before anyone else believes it, you have to believe it, say it to yourself, I know who I am, I know what I believe, that’s all I need to know”. He feels one needs to protect their own dreams. For example, in his movie, “The Pursuit of Happyness” his character said, “Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something” in your own life. “If you’ve got a dream, you’ve got to protect it”. Don’t let anyone drag you down or give up because they will do that to you. Will said to…

The year of 1791 was the year American rights became part of the constitution. The Bill of Rights was put into the constitution to protect the rights of Individuals. However, one particular group was left out of the constitution and did not receive those rights. These were the African Americans. Later that year one man decided that this needed to change. Benjamin Banneker, a self-educated free African American wrote a letter to the then Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson. Throughout Benjamin…

Happiness is something unexplainable and since I am barely finding myself the best way I can define is by happiness being something that satisfies you and puts a smile on your face. My idea of happiness is graduating from college, getting married, and eventually starting a family. Since I am only 17, I still have many years to come before I can achieve that. This semester we read The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger in which Holden made it clear that adulthood can be difficult and confusing.…

Stereotypes are very prevalent in the United States today. Throughout my life I have seen these stereotypes. In high school, I went to a predominantly black school and I witnessed not only myself, but also my friends being put into a certain group because of our skin color. When we would go play basketball we would be known as the “white boys” and all people thought we could do was shoot. I thought that maybe it was because they had never seen us before, but then my opinion changed. I was always…