The Pursuit of Happiness Essay

Some examples of some of the difficulties that Chris had faced while training at his intership at Dean Witter was that he did not have enough time as the other interns. Due to this he found it alot harder to work his way up a sales calls list. Some reasons behind why Chris didn't have enough time in his day of internship is that he had to have spare time to earn money to feed his son Christopher, to pay Christopher's babysitter for that day and he also needed time to make sure he was in line by a certain time so he could have a place to sleep at a homeless shelter.

For example, in the novel, autobiography, “The Glass Castle”, Jeannette is a little girl whom managed to overcome the hardships of her life. When she was three-years-old, she got herself burned due to the fact that her parents were making cook her own hot dogs; therefore, she learned that she wasn’t supposed to play with fire. At high school, her didn’t have any money to buy food nor to buy the supplies she required at her school, and whenever they did have money, Jeannette’s father would spend it all on liquor and her mom would spend on unnecessary things such as sculptures. Consequently, always living with the constant fear of knowing that she could end up like her parents, she decided to move to New York along with her siblings and started working at a newspaper company. Eventually, she studied at an university and ended up writing this novel; in addition, she wanted to share her experiences in order to inspire and encourage other people. Her message is clear, it doesn’t matter how hopeless your current state might seem, if you are will to succeed, you will definitely be able to achieve

One new experience can bring a whole other dimension. Viewpoints on life change, knowledge is gained through mistakes, and one may find themselves trapped in a maze-like situation that they need to find a way out of. However, making the best out of one’s position through determination, perseverance, and courage can slowly reverse the difficulty of handling it. Eventually, as strength is regained from tough obstacles, the desire to obtain their dreams escalates even further, which aids in working harder and striving to reach their goals. Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed, depicts the financial struggles of single mothers who raise their families through minimum-wage jobs after the welfare reform affected their lifestyles. In the novel, Ehrenreich tests the limits of living in poverty by accepting any scarce job that was offered, and provides insight that although it was exhausting to balance her needs and her hectic work schedule, by diligently laboring, constantly persisting in seeking the better, and voicing out the wrongs, it can eventually lead to the attainment of the American Dream.

This is an influential point for both book and movie because it has the effect of showing how both mothers are in and out of their child’s life but yet the father reminds to keep everything together. Basing character tendencies on how the mothers leave and the main character (father) with stay. Yet the movie does not detail this information but is evident to the abandonment of his actual wife at one point in the film. In the film, the wife leaves at the one-hour mark (film time). The film keeps their focus off the wife/mother to put more power in the struggle of Gardner’s life as a father. In contrast, the film “The Pursuit of Happyness” featured the bigger picture of the actual story. More so the theme that Chris Gardner conveyed in the book. The film goes from struggling married couple with a son, to a struggling single father chasing the ultimate dream of successfulness. The difference from the book is that Chris Gardner and his wife were together on and off. They struggle to make the relationship work but have differences in what they want to pursue.

The Movie that I choose to analyze was the movie The Wolf of Wall Street this movie is about a guy who is starting off his career wanting to earn money fast so he goes to Wall Street and works as a broker for a small firm, where he ends up picking up bad advice along with some bad habits that get him rich fast, but not in a very ethical way. Some of the main characters that I will be talking about in this essay are Jordan Belfort also referred to as Jordy, he is played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Donnie Azoff Played by Jonah Hill. There are many other characters in this movie, but these are the main characters that are faced with difficult dilemmas. A lot of the choices that are made in this movie are Unethical. Even though it seems that he does everything for greed you end up understanding the reasons he did those things, but even though they are done for the right reasons does not mean it is right.

With everything Chris and his son went through it would seem almost impossible to be optimistic in that situation. Optimism was a crucial factor in his successes. It brought him to a place where life was better, allowing him to overcome dire circumstances despite the doubts of others. When his wife left him, it seemed it would be impossible to survive with the internship that gave no salary. It seemed like their life would take a turn for the worse. However, the optimism and belief that Chris had in his abilities led to him finally being able to defeat the negative outlook of others on his choices. His positive outlook on his situation gave him the strength to beat the odds against him. His chances to get into the internship seemed very little, but he had hopes to make it in. The day of his interview, he did not have time to dress appropriately, but he took his bad situation and turn it into a positive

The move I chose to write about is Cheaper By The Dozen, which was a popular movie that came out in 2003. Cheaper By the Dozen is about a family of 12 living a chaotic life after they had to move away from their childhood home. It is also about how both parents try to balance the work life, and parent life, but don’t succeed. The dad by the end realized that his career wasn’t best for family life, and the family is happy, and getting along.

In the book pursuit of happiness, Chris Gardner keeps a positive outlook throughout the whole book so that he will keep his son from worrying about the current situation they are in. Chris keeps telling his son that everything will be alright and this outlook eventually rubs off on his son and keeps his son going through the whole thing. Chris also takes an unpaid internship without knowing if he will even get the job and keeps telling himself that he can do it and continues to work hard and ends up getting the job and being successful in life.

As Mahatma Gandhi once said, “There is sufficiency in the world for every man’s need, but not for every man’s greed.” Greed plays a huge part in A Summer Life by Gary Soto, which describes his childhood growing up in the city of Fresno by many vignettes. In the vignette “The Pie” Gary succumbs to his desire for apple pie and steals it, but faces self-torment for doing such a deed. Throughout this vignette, Gary Soto uses biblical allusion, and a unique point of view to show that everyone has greed and acquisitiveness inside them, but those who control it become successful in life.

In the movie Chris sells portable Ostero National bone-density scanner. He sells, or at least try to sell them to doctors. He had to sell two a month so his kid can go to daycare and pay the rent. Chris Garnder wife works at Linens at a hospital and does day and night shifts but also extra shifts to be able to care for her family. The career, Chris Gardner chose to do after failing to sell the National bone-denstiy scanner was a stock broker. He chose this career to get more money to support his family more. Throughout the movie as Chris Gardener trys to start a new career, there are several things that happen during that time. First, his wife leaves him along with taking their son. Later in the movie Linda goes to New York for a better

One of the basic tenets of life is that greater opportunities will appear to individuals that actively pursue and know how to recognize them. Since the majority of us do not have the luxury of being born into wealth or power, the choices that we make ultimately shape our successes in life. Adam Carolla begins by using examples to highlight the concepts of consistency and residual income. He explains that it is easier and more useful to understand how to sell something and continue selling it again and again as opposed to figuring out how to simply make a large amount of money. As a student that had performed poorly in high school, he worked a variety of jobs including carpet cleaner and boxing trainer

“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.” So are the words of Denis Waitley, famous American orator and writer. Waitley’s words can be applied to anyone who is practically anywhere in their lives; old or young, rich or poor. The profundity of the end goal is significantly less than that of the journey to get there. In literature especially, we read of characters who go on a journey to achieve their goal, whatever it may be. However, as one reads of a character’s adventure, they do not solely learn of the happiness that the character experiences when they finally reach their goal. A story is written about the journey of a character who gets to where they want to be, not just what

George Stein grew up in the suburbs of a major East Coast city. Inevitably, every summer between school semesters George likes to work so he can continue he interest-saturated lifestyle which includes showing his girlfriend, Cathy, around to fun events and spending money on his love of hot rods. This semester, after his freshmen year at college, George managed to secure himself a comfortable union job which offers overtime and a paycheck far larger than he could have ever received any previous summer.

In Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ 2006 movie Little Miss Sunshine, they depict the tribulations of a dysfunctional family trying to get their daughter to a beauty pageant, while encompassing strong portrayals of common issues in the United States today. It communicates the individual’s struggle to be perfect, as well as the difficulties of the average middle class family in society. In this paper I will analyze three characters; Olive, Dwayne, and Richard Hoover, identifying their life stages, psychosocial development, role in the family and their resiliency through the stories challenging circumstances.

After six-month of training, Gardner is selected from 20 competitors to work as a stockbroker in Dean Witter due to his excellent performance during the intern. In one scene, Gardner is called up to the meeting room, and he is informed by the director manager Mr. Frohms as he is officially getting a position of a stockbroker in Dean Witter. Gardner is so happy as all the hard work he had done is finally paid off. In this part, he called his life as “Happiness”.