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    The true life events of the world renown mathematician John Nash, who later went on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics is depicted in the movie A Beautiful Mind. Not only does this movie illustrate his accomplishments in the field of mathematics and economics, but it also portrays his journey and struggles with the debilitating mental disorder Paranoid Schizophrenia. The movie begins in 1947 when Nash is enrolled at Princeton University on a Carnegie Scholarship as a graduate student in mathematics

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    I chose the film “A Beautiful Mind” produced in 2001. The main character is John Forbes Nash, Jr. portrayed by Russell Crowe. The heart, not the mind is where the true meaning of life is found. A mathematical genius who is fixated on finding an original idea to ensure his legacy embarks on a mission with the belief that mathematics will lead him to a higher truth. “I cannot waste time with these classes and these books, memorizing the weak assumptions of lesser mortals. I need to look through to

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    The movie A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard and based on a true story, demonstrates the impacts of Schizophrenia on a mathematician named John Nash. Schizophrenia, according to The National Institute of Mental Health is “a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects a person to thinks, feels, and behaves.” A Beautiful Mind shows the struggles this disorder puts an individual and all those who care for them. At the beginning of the movie, John Nash is accepted into Princeton

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    In the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” Russell Crowe plays John Nash, a genius mathematician who came up with the game theory of economics. In the beginning of the film, Nash attends Princeton University as a mathematic graduate student. Nash is awkward, displays superiority, and is known for his intelligence. He spends majority of his time and energy trying to discover a ground-breaking equation for mathematics. During the film, you realize that half of the places and situations that Nash mentions are

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    In the movie “A Beautiful Mind” directed by Ronald William Howard, characterizes the story of John Nash, a brilliant mathematician, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. The movie is based of the true life story of John Forbes Nash, portrayed in the movie by Russell Crowe. John is a college student attending Princeton University and early in his career he made an astonishing discovery and which became internationally renowned. This lead to him winning the Nobel Prize during his late years. The

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    Synopsis I watched A Beautiful Mind for this project. The movie is based on the real life experiences of John Nash. The film begins with Nash arriving at Princeton University for his first year. We are introduced to many of the main characters in the first few minutes of the film. We meet his enemy, who Nash believes he is smarter that, and his roommate who drinks too much but is always there as a helping hand for John. As Nash begins his collegiate career we begin to see some early symptoms of

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    A Beautiful Mind Schizophrenia is a mental illness that is often looked upon as being “crazy” or someone that has multiple personalities. However, that is not the case at all. Schizophrenia is a broad illness with several subsets of the illness that affect thousands of people. In A Beautiful Mind, John Nash is a brilliant mathematician who is at Princeton University on the Carnegie Scholarship. He slowly begins to become paranoid and have delusions that affect his relationship with his wife and

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    REVIEW: YOUR INTRODUCTION The film, The Beautiful Mind was directed by Ron Howard. It is a drama, based on a true story about John Nash. Nah was a mathematical genius, who suffered with a mental disorder of Paranoid Schizophrenia. However, his hallucinations weren’t as intense as they were in the film. The film shows some true events and follows through with inspired moments that have been fabricated to symbolize his worth/role in the community. Although the film is a drama it involves into romance

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    “A Beautiful Mind” expresses the life of John Nash, a genius mathematician, who struggles with the severe disorder of schizophrenia. Throughout the film, we not only see John’s daily struggles, but the affects of his mental illness on his friends and loved ones as well. John’s hallucinations appear to be very realistic but are unfortunately only indications of his mental disorder. In the beginning, we see John’s attempts to socialize, but we immediately realize his views and ideas are different from

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    type of film to portray people with schizophrenic with a comprehensive determination, and then avoid the usual judgements such as a person that is really terrifying, psychotic, killer or just plain rare person. As read and saw the film of "A Beautiful Mind," John Nash is perceived as a scary guy. From the scene where he leaves his child in the tub because he thinks that his friend Charles is looking over the child while he is doing something else, where he almost hurts his wife while he listens

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