The Pursuit of Happyness

      In 1981, in San Francisco, the smart salesman and family man Chris Gardner invests the family savings in Osteo National bone-density scanners, an apparatus twice as expensive as an x-ray machine but with a slightly clearer image. This white elephant financially breaks the family, bringing troubles to his relationship with his wife Linda, who leaves him and moves to New York where she has taken a job in a pizza parlor. Their son Christopher stays with Chris because he and his wife both know that he will be able to take better care of him.

Without any money or a wife, but committed to his son, Chris sees a chance to fight for a stockbroker internship position at Dean Witter, offering a more promising career at the end of a six-month unpaid training period. During that period, Chris goes through a lot of hardship personally and professionally. When he thinks he is "stable," he finds that he has lost $600 when the government takes the last bit of money in his bank account for taxes. He is rendered homeless because he can't pay his rent. He is forced at one point to stay in a bathroom at a train station, and must scramble from work every day to the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, which offers shelter to the homeless. He must leave work early every day so that he is there by 5:00 in the evening along with his son so that he may be assured of a place to sleep. He is seen carrying his suitcase to work because he doesn't have a home. At work, there are nineteen other candidates for the one position.

One day, he is called into an office and in it were the heads of Dean Witter. Chris thinks that he is about to be told the job will not be his as he says that he wore a shirt and tie for his final day. Then they tell him that he has been an excellent trainee and that tomorrow he will have to wear his shirt and tie again as it will be his first day as a broker. Chris struggles to hold back tears. Outside he begins to cry as the busy people of San Francisco walk past him. He rushes to his son's daycare, hugging him and knowing that after everything him and his son had been through things would be all right.

The final scene shows Chris walking with his son down a street. His son is telling him a joke, when a wealthy business man in a suit walks past. Chris looks back as the man continues on. The man in the suit is none other than the real Chris Gardner

The Terminal (2004) Synopsis

"The Terminal" tells the story of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a visitor to New York from Eastern Europe, whose homeland erupts in a fiery coup while he is in the air en route to America. Stranded at Kennedy Airport with a passport from nowhere, he is unauthorized to actually enter the United States and must improvise his days and nights in the terminal’s international transit lounge until the war at home is over. As the weeks and months stretch on, Viktor finds the compressed universe of the terminal to be a richly complex world of absurdity, generosity, ambition, amusement, status, serendipity and even romance with a beautiful flight attendant named Amelia (Catherine Zeta-Jones). But Viktor has long worn out his welcome with airport official Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci), who considers him a bureaucratic glitch, a problem he cannot control but wants desperately to erase

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS by Queen

     I've paid my dues,time after time;
     I've done my sentence,but committed no crime
     And bad mistake,I've made a face,
     But I've come through
C/o       We are the champion,my friend
              And we'll keep on fighting to the end.
             We are the champion (x2)
              No time for losers'cos
              We are the champion of the world.
      I've taken my bows and my curtain call
      You've brought and everything that goes with it;
       I thank you all,
               But it's been no bed of roses, no pleasure cruise
               I consider it a challenge before the whole human race
               And i ain"t gonna lose.
     

Natural History Museum, London

          

  The cathedral-like Central Hall of London's Natural History Museum boasts a towering arched ceiling ribbed with exposed iron beams and adorned with hundreds of hand-painted tiles depicting plants and animals. Designed in the 1860s in the German Romanesque style by architect Alfred Waterhouse, the building first opened its doors in 1881.

Stonehenge, England

                   

Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, is arguably England's greatest archaeological treasure. Though weathered and broken, its ruins are a window on a prehistoric world, guarding secrets after more than 4,500 years. Here, lights from the nearby town of Amesbury lend a lavender glow to the sky above the enigmatic monument.

Windsor castle, Berkshire England

                             
  The first tower of Windsor Castle, the sprawling royal residence and fortress in Berkshire, England, was completed nearly a thousand years ago. It is currently the oldest continually occupied castle in the world, and the largest, spreading over 13 acres (5 hectares) of land. This vantage shows a portion of the Queen's Jubilee Garden, built in 2002 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's 50 years on the throne.

South Down National Park, England

        

• England's Newest National Park The South Downs are a line of rolling hills that run roughly parallel to England’s southeast coast and create a landscape of open heath and chalk grasslands, 400-year-old oak woods, and dramatic coastline—highlighted by the towering cliffs of Seven Sisters and Beachy Head. South Downs is less than an hour from London and, though England’s newest national park, stunningly popular. The National Park Authority estimates 39 million visitors come to the park each year—nearly triple the number to the next most visited national park.

• White Chalk The bones of South Downs are made of chalk limestone, the soft rock formed by the fossilized skeletons of sea creatures that inhabited an ancient ocean here nearly 100 million years ago. In some places this chalk contains visible remains of ammonites, sea urchins, sponges, and other ancient creatures. The brilliant white rock is most obvious in the exposed cliffs of the Seven Sisters, between Cuckmere Haven and Birling Gap. The cliffs here are worn away by 10 inches (25 to 30 centimeters) each year by the action of the ocean.

• Wave-Cut Platform When the tide is out, a trip to the wave-cut platform at the foot of the towering cliffs gives visitors a glimpse of living and ancient creatures. Fossils such as giant ammonites can be found here, and the area is alive with modern marine animals. Limpets and mussels, whelks, sea anemones, and shrimp can be found on the rocks and in pools. Visitors can also see algae, seaweed, and even kelp forests—though these lie at the platform’s oceanside edge and emerge only at the year’s lowest spring tides.

• Rare Landscape Chalk downland, the park’s iconic landscape of rolling hills covered with grass, scrub, and heather, may seem commonplace here but is globally rare. Even in South Downs chalk grassland exists over only 3 percent of its original area thanks to intrusions of invasive scrub and the encroachment of modern farming and development.

• Great Diversity Today the grasslands are home to species in amazing variety—up to 40 different plants may live in a single square meter. This diversity is sustained by intense competition for nutrients in the thin, well-drained soils overlying the chalk below. The many plants and flowers help to sustain an animal ecosystem that includes insects, rare butterflies, snails, hares, and birds.