Last week I finally got the chance to watch
'The Pursuit of Happyness'. One of my favorite films for inspiration and pure determination to achieve a dream. The title of the film is intentionally misspelled as it also appears as graffiti in the film. It is taken from an essay written in 1776 which argued that white and blacks were created equal. The essay was written by
Lemuel Haynes, and he quoted
Thomas Jefferson's well known sentence which was taken from a little document called '
The Declaration of Independence' but spelt the last word of the sentence with a
y.
"We hold these truths to be self-Evident, that all men are created Equal, that they are Endowed By their Creator with Ceartain [sic] unalienable rights, that among these are life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happyness"
I felt that this was an appropriate post as I myself am also in pursuit of an American dream, and will one day get there and look back on this 'blog' and think to myself 'I made it'.
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