in its rawest form. The film happens with a great taste of honesty. It teaches lessons you can use in your daily lives. The movie starts with the Gardner couple having problems‚ which is a common scene for people nowadays. The protagonist earns money by selling bone density scanners which he sells to medical institutions‚ which does not sell much. Chris Gardner’s lack of ability to make a living made her wife Linda to leave them. It gives us the picture that people can be full of other’s crap that
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growth‚ and strong relationships. The characters that are present in these two texts face conflict‚ and learn how to overcome their problems through their support of family and friends. Therefore‚ they are able to evolve as a person and although the texts differ in their contexts‚ they both illustrate discovery as a product of self-actualisation‚ and an appreciation for our environment. ‘Away’ and The Pursuit of Happyness gives us an insight into how a character changes and grows as a person once
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Introduction The movie starts by depicting the life of Chris Gardner in San Francisco in 1981. Chris Gardner was a salesman who had a wife called Linda and one son called Christopher (Chris Junior). He was a salesman of portable bone-density scanners where as his wife worked as a hotel maid. Previously Chris had used up all of their life savings in order to purchase a large stock of the machines which he though of as being revolutionary to the medical x-ray machines. He therefore anticipated making
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ks that Chris Gardner faced in getting the ... www.chacha.com/.../can-you-list-some-of-the-risks-that-chris-gardner-fa... Can you list some of the risks that Chris Gardner faced in getting the job at Dean Witter ChaCha Answer: He faced the risks present i... ... ChaCha does not charge for its service. Message and data rates may apply. If you need help‚ text HELP ... Asdfghjkl - College Essay - Charlymary - StudyMode.com www.studymode.com › Essays › Miscellaneous There are many challenges that
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is rated PG13 and stars Will Smith as Chris Gardner‚ and Will Smith’s son Jaden as Christopher Gardner Jr. The movie represents how hard work can change a person’s life for the better. Throughout the movie Chris Gardner’s family‚ career‚ and some of his life is shown. This movie is mostly not a good representation of Chris Gardner besides some life facts. Chris Gardner had to live and sleep many different places while he worked to improve his life. Chris had to sleep on buses‚ subways‚ in public
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Chris Gardner VS Me In the scene of the movie The Pursuit of Happyness‚ Chris and his son Christopher are sitting at a booth next to a window in a full diner at night. The camera zooms in on them eating. As Christopher eats‚ he begins to stare at an African American family across from the diner. The family is laughing and joking around as they enjoy their family dinner. Christopher begins to become distracted with envy of the “happy” family. Gardner looks at him with a smile and the realization
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to Poverty • Gardners grew up in poverty • Only “blue-collared” jobs were available to the “colored” • They had poor housing‚ struggled to find food‚ limited funds to pay rent • Chris Gardner faced “persistent poverty” but managed to make it “temporary poverty” by never giving up on his dream to become wealthy‚ to own a “Ferrari” • Encountered inequality because even though he was able to get a job‚ all of his clients went to a “more-experienced” person – a white person • Chris falls into the
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Based on true events‚ The Pursuit of Happyness (the incorrect spelling is explained in the film) follows Chris Gardner (Smith) as he struggles to achieve the American dream. Chris has everything going against him. His wife left him and he’s raising his 5-year-old son alone‚ without any real income. Determined to provide for his son Christopher no matter what‚ Chris enters an unpaid internship program at a brokerage firm in hopes of landing the one paid position available at the end of the training
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One of Chris Gardner’s Personality traits is him being a good father. When Chris was 28 he finally met his father. Chris had always promised that he would be there for his own kid unlike his dad was there for him. Whenever Linda left Chris‚ Chris seen Linda in an ally on her way to work and he stopped her and told her that he wanted Christopher to come live with him because he knew and she knew that Linda wouldn’t be able to take care of Christopher by herself. Chris gets kicked out of his house
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At the beginning of the movie‚ Chris Gardner is a medical equipment salesman and he invested his family’s savings in a portable device‚ which is a bone-density scanner. His work is carrying this bone density scanners demonstrate and sell to the doctors but unfortunately‚ hospital think that bone density scanners are luxuries and expensive and lead to this machines are not easy to sell. Even sometimes Chris Gardner not able to sell one in 2 months. As Chris Gardner tries to figure out how to sell
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