What would you do if your life had an expiration date? For Randy Pausch‚ the question was not so hypothetical; his answer was‚ in essence‚ his novel titled The Last Lecture. Through his book‚ Randy explored which values and philosophies were most important to him. In effect‚ he bestowed his audience with valuable life lessons (both generalized and specific) via recollections of various events from his past. After being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer‚ he made it his sole objective to write a comprehensive
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Chris Cercone Peter Palumbo SU101 11/18/10 Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Randy Pausch delivered a highly memorable and inspirational presentation in 2007‚ entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” I thought it was emotional‚ powerful and gripping‚ as was the book about it‚ The Last Lecture. Pausch frequently talks about his childhood dreams‚ such as being a Disney Imagineer‚ meeting Captain Kirk‚ playing in the National Football
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It was in the summer before my sophomore year when I read the book “The Last Lecture” by CMU professor Randy Pausch. The book was based on his famous “last lecture” that he gave while being terminally ill with few months to live. In that lecture‚ instead of talking about his tragedy‚ he spoke about the positivity of life‚ continuous learning‚ unconstrained imaginations‚ honesty and integrity‚ overcoming obstacles and choices that one can make to lead a good life. Two of his key experiences has stood
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The speaker I selected was Professor Randy Pausch. I have read the book‚ “The Last Lecture” and was very moved by it. In the introduction he absolutely grabbed my attention. He was very humorous and engaging. Even using humor to discuss “the elephant in the room” and to show everyone how he was in good health. He makes you want to listen in the way he opened his “speech”. His nonverbal communication is excellent. He focuses on the audience (eye contact) through the entire speech. He walks
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“It’s not about how to achieve your dreams‚ it’s about how to lead your life” is a quote that was spoken by Randy Pausch in his inspirational speech ‘The Last Lecture’. Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was told that he had three to six months of good health left. Although this is devastating news for anyone‚ he continued on with his life as he had before. Pausch’s speech was about how to achieve your childhood dreams‚ and more importantly
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us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” in his bestseller book‚ The Last Lecture. The author explores the meaning of life’s difficulties‚ and how these difficulties shape our character and help us discover our own potential. Furthermore‚ this quote suggests that success is not easily obtained‚ rather an individual needs to
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“Hypothetically‚ if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture‚ what would you say to your students?” That is how Professor Randy Pausch‚ from Carnegie Mellon‚ began his last lecture‚ a speech entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” while in fact he was dying of Pancreatic Cancer. He knew he only had months left to live and put together this last lecture to read to his students. His lecture focuses in on points such as the importance of: making sincere apologies‚ not whining
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152 October 2‚ 2012 Evaluation of Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams Randy Pausch was a computer science professor who taught at Carnegie Mellon University. On September 18‚ 2007‚ a few months before he lost his battle with cancer‚ Pausch delivered a speech entitled Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams to an audience of around four hundred people. One can appropriately evaluate the effectiveness of Pausch’s last presentation by examining the seven key elements
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something impossible; therefore‚ they change their dream or give up on it. Randy Pausch wrote The Last Lecture to explain how he did not give up on his dream though. He wrote about his childhood dreams and even though he had cancer and knew he was going to die‚ he kept striving to achieve his childhood dreams. He managed to get through life achieving most of his childhood dreams. In The Last Lecture‚ Pausch uses pathos‚ ethos‚ and logos to persuade readers that they can achieve their childhood dreams
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