Manohla dargis called the movie the pursuit of happyness “a fairy tale in realist drag . . the kind of entertainment that goes down smoothly until it gets stuck in your craw. . it’s the same old bootstraps story, an american dream artfully told, skillfully sold. how you respond to this man’s moving story may depend on whether you find mr. smith’s and his son’s performances so overwhelmingly winning that you buy the idea that poverty is a function of bad luck and bad choices, and success the result of heroic toil and dreams.” what idea is being expressed here

One of the author's purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with enormous speed mark this and return save and exit next submit

Chapters 3–5 while reading, think about… author’s purpose/point of view symbolism communication between characters —ethan frome

Read this line from the poem. and while i thus at random rove what effect does alliteration have in this line? a. it emphasizes the unpredictability of the speaker's pursuit of pleasure. b. it makes the speaker seem fair and impartial. c. it adds a lighthearted tone to the speaker's words. d. it contributes to the sorrowful tone of the poem.