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    The Pursuit of Happyness

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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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    ‘The Pursuit Of Happyness’ What is the movie about? ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’ directed by Gabrielle Muccino‚ a film based on a man name Chris Gardner’s with his struggles of being homeless for almost one year and along his side was his young son and wife. They struggled to pay off their rent and were often chased out by the rent owner. Chris and his wife were selling off the portable bone-density scanners that they have invested their entire life savings on. Willingly assuming they had hit jackpot

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    2 ‚Exclusive and his self title album Chris Brown which is his very first album. Browns most listened songs include:“No B.S”‚ “Kiss Kiss”‚ “Strip”‚ Take You Down‚ “She Ain’t You”‚ “My Last”‚ “Run It”‚ “Look At Me Now” and Dueces” just to name a few.The reason behing why I like Brown so much is not baised entirely upon his looks but also the fact that he is amongst one of the selected few that can actually sing without auto tune Christopher Maurice "Chris" Brown born May 5‚ 1989 is an American

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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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    Pursuit of Happiness

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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 ChrisChris 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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    Pursuit of Happyness

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    The Pursuit of Happyness is a true-life story of a single father‚ Chris Gardner‚ who went from living on the streets to owning his own brokerage firm. This film charts the hard times and eventual comeback of Chris‚ a suddenly single salesman who had custody of his son‚ but encounters a challenge in providing for him and his son. Chris struggles his way as life continues to offer him setbacks to working as an unpaid intern at Dean Witter to being offered a permanent position as a broker on his last

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    conveyed to the audience as Gwen exaggerating too much about the issues she has with Meg. In The Pursuit of Happyness‚ Chris Gardner is a man who struggles to support his family. As a result‚ his wife leaves him and his son to fend for themselves. “Hey. Don’t ever let somebody tell you... You can’t do something. Not even me. All right?” This truncated sentence demonstrates that Chris loves his son‚ and does not want his son to go through the hardships he is faced with. He wants his son to work for his

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    Life Of Chris Gardner

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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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