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    The Pursuit Of Happyness BY DENISE LING The Pursuit of Happyness Directed by Gabriele Muccino Runtime: 117 minutes I believe this movie gives hope to many lives‚ as it delivers a clear message to the society that anyone can fulfill their dream with a determined will. Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is a salesman and invests his entire life savings in portable bone-density scanners. He demonstrates them to doctors and tries to sell them. While he is able to sell most of them‚ the time lag between the

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    Melia Chui Lok Yi (20097621) The influence of Western science towards China’s way of thinking When we look at the history of China before the Western invasion‚ we can see that it was a self-sufficient country. It supplies itself with food and all sorts of necessities. Owing to the geography‚ China did not have many chances to connect with the West. Therefore‚ it has developed its own ideology‚ correlative thinking (Hall & Roger‚ 1998). But after the invasion starting from 1839 (1st opium war)

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    The Pursuit of Happiness In the book‚ “You Learn by Living‚” Eleanor Roosevelt notes: “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product”(Roosevelt 95). When one’s specific desire is fulfilled‚ feelings of happiness flourish. Therefore‚ happiness is the ultimate goal in life for many people in today’s society because their life revolves around desire. That said‚ everyone’s interpretation of happiness varies. Some may believe wealth and power will bring them happiness‚ while others might argue that beauty

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    Hamlet vs. What Dreams May Come "Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune‚ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles" In the movie "What Dreams May Come" there are two people who fit this quote. Chris and Annie are the parents of the children that have both died. The mother Annie goes insane for a short period of time‚ while the father Chris is strong-willed and shows no signs of insanity. He is the noble minded one who suffers till the outrageous

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    The Pursuit of Happiness “A man can be destroyed but never defeated.” – Ernest Hemingway We can consider the quote from Ernest Hemingway’s novel‚ “The Old Man and the Sea”‚ an equivalent of the film’s title‚ “The Pursuit of Happiness”‚ because up until the point you find happiness you have to pass through moments that bring you close to despair. Chris is initially shown as a salesman of new bone scanner machines which are far more expensive than the X-ray machines that are used nowadays and

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    Some areas of knowledge are defined by their methodologies‚ others by their content. Discuss. To what extent is an area of knowledge defined by their methodology? To understand this question‚ we will first have to understand what methodologies mean in this context. According to my own understanding‚ methodology is the application of a particular procedure in an area of study. It is essentially the path taken to pursue knowledge. Although methodology and content seems to be two separate

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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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    The Futile Pursuit of Happiness "The Futile Pursuit of Happiness" by Jon Gertner was published in September of 2003. It is an essay that discusses the difference between how happy we believe we will be with a particular outcome or decision‚ and how happy we actually are with the outcome. The essay is based on experiments done by two professors: Daniel Gilbert and George Loewenstein. The experiments show that humans are never as happy as we think we will be with an outcome because affective forecasting

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    The Pursuit of Happyness “The Pursuit of Happyness” is a story about a man named Chris Gardner‚ who is the protagonist of the film‚ surviving many things thanks to many qualities he possesses. Gardner’s predicament is one that takes much determination to get through while also trying to be the best role model he can for his son. His social skills have helped him come far‚ including into an internship at Dean Witter. Without his intelligence‚ he would have flunked early in the game. These internal

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    The Pursuit of Happiness In 1981‚ in San Francisco‚ the smart salesman and family man Chris Gardner invested the family savings in Ostelo National bone-density scanners‚ an apparatus twice more expensive than x-ray with practically the same resolution. The white elephant financially breaks the family‚ bringing troubles to the relationship with his wife that leaves him and moves to New York. Without money and wife‚ but totally committed with his son Christopher‚ Chris sees the chance to fight for

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