"I met my father for the first time when i was 28 years old.When i had children they were going to know who their father was."promises Chris Gardener played by the actor (Will Smith). An earnest salesman and father desperately struggling to make ends meet on the hard streets of San Francisco in the early 1980s. But his chosen vocation, peddling expensive bone-density scanners that most physicians don't want, has left him and those he loves hovering on the brink of disaster. The movie The Pursuit of Happyness Directed by Gabriele Muccino a biography/drama film, is an inspiring movie because it shows you human struggles and sacrifices that he made and his love for his son. Although he met opposition at every turn, he did not sease to be driven to reach a higher standard of living and providing for his son.
Day after unsuccessful day, Chris comes home to his dispirited girlfriend, Linda, and their 5-year-old son, Christopher.Then Linda leaves Chris (and their son) for a job in New York. She's barely out the door when Chris learns he's been offered the coveted internship. The catch? It's unpaid. Juggling his schedule to get Christopher to and from day care each day with hardly any money in his pockets. But diminishing savings quickly result in an eviction from their apartment.
From their apartment to motel to city shelters on good nights, and in pubulic bathrooms by the subway in the worst.
Chris clings holding firmly to the hope that his hard work will eventually pay off.
And his dogged pursuit of a better life forges a powerful father-son bond that no misfortune can destroy.
From watching this movie, you can see how doors open for many different people.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Current Poverty Issues Around The World
The drought in Ethiopia has help relief workers there fear another episode of human suffering brought about by the 1984 famine, which caused more than 1 million deaths. The Christian Science Monitor reported recently that about 10 million Ethiopians need emergency food aid, but the rise in prices makes getting the food even more expensive.
Even with the three years of combined efforts, some countries have recently begun to get poorer. Today, some African countries will not conquer poverty until 2165, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) believes.
It says poor countries must come up with better ideas and ways, while the wealthier ones improve trade and aid.
Releasing its Human Development Report 2003, the UNDP says poverty is expected. In the last 30 years, life expectancy in poor countries has risen by eight years, and illiteracy has been halved.
But it says progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is unreliable, with success still doubtfull.
The amount of Americans in poverty scaled by 816,000 in 2007, at the same time the poverty rate stayed statistically changed, in general median income rose discreetly, and the number and percentage of Americans without health insurance fell somewhat, according to Census data issued today. But the poverty rate remained higher, median income for working-age households remained lower, and the number and percentage of Americans without health insurance remained much greater than in 2001, when the last recession hit bottom.
Somalia faces an amount of major barriers to development: civil disagreement, the lack of a fully functioning central government, and natural calamities such as drought and floods. In addition, the ongoing armed struggle has often prevented much-needed humanitarian assistance from reaching the population. Poverty has inevitably increased since the early 1990s and the collapse of the government and onset of civil war. About 43 per cent of the population lives in extreme poverty, or on less than US$1 per day. This figure rises to 53 per cent in rural areas, where extreme poverty is more prevalent.
Health needles for the population have shown a decline since 1991, an inevitable consequence of the collapse of public services and destruction of infrastructure. Child survival improved after the famine of the early 1990s, but is still low and has deteriorated since the end of the 1990s. Malnutrition continues to be prevalent throughout the country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3052918.stm%20,%
20http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/som/index.htm,
Even with the three years of combined efforts, some countries have recently begun to get poorer. Today, some African countries will not conquer poverty until 2165, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) believes.
It says poor countries must come up with better ideas and ways, while the wealthier ones improve trade and aid.
Releasing its Human Development Report 2003, the UNDP says poverty is expected. In the last 30 years, life expectancy in poor countries has risen by eight years, and illiteracy has been halved.
But it says progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is unreliable, with success still doubtfull.
The amount of Americans in poverty scaled by 816,000 in 2007, at the same time the poverty rate stayed statistically changed, in general median income rose discreetly, and the number and percentage of Americans without health insurance fell somewhat, according to Census data issued today. But the poverty rate remained higher, median income for working-age households remained lower, and the number and percentage of Americans without health insurance remained much greater than in 2001, when the last recession hit bottom.
Somalia faces an amount of major barriers to development: civil disagreement, the lack of a fully functioning central government, and natural calamities such as drought and floods. In addition, the ongoing armed struggle has often prevented much-needed humanitarian assistance from reaching the population. Poverty has inevitably increased since the early 1990s and the collapse of the government and onset of civil war. About 43 per cent of the population lives in extreme poverty, or on less than US$1 per day. This figure rises to 53 per cent in rural areas, where extreme poverty is more prevalent.
Health needles for the population have shown a decline since 1991, an inevitable consequence of the collapse of public services and destruction of infrastructure. Child survival improved after the famine of the early 1990s, but is still low and has deteriorated since the end of the 1990s. Malnutrition continues to be prevalent throughout the country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3052918.stm%20,%
20http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/africa/som/index.htm,
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Introduction
Poverty is a real issue that affects many many people from third world countries like Samalia,Haiti,India etc. I chose this topic in order to elicite awareness so that hopefully more people may do more and talk less about it, though the United States aids in food distribution to many impoverished countries yet there has been some cases where the help did not arrive to those who needed it. Corruption seems to play a part in all of this.
The likely explanations to poverty clearly count on what is chiefly effecting it, and this can clearly differ with time and with place. At this early 21st century time the main poverty differences are between greater part of poverty as in deprived countries like India, and alternative poverty in wealthy countries like the USA and Britain.
The likely explanations to poverty clearly count on what is chiefly effecting it, and this can clearly differ with time and with place. At this early 21st century time the main poverty differences are between greater part of poverty as in deprived countries like India, and alternative poverty in wealthy countries like the USA and Britain.
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