with some slight modifications. The most basic entry for a lecture consists of the speaker name‚ date conducted‚ lecture title‚ event‚ sponsor‚ and city. Last Name‚ F. (Date Conducted). Lecture Title. Event. Lecture conducted from Sponsor‚ City. Pausch‚ R. (2007‚ September). Really achieving your childhood dreams. Journeys. Lecture conducted from Carnegie Mellon University‚ Pittsburgh‚ PA. The speaker’s name should be reversed‚ with the last name coming first‚ followed by a comma. First names and
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“Yo‚ Yo‚ Yo! Check it out dawgs. I’m just keeping it real up here in the front of the plane. Get ready for the flight of yo life. I am your pilot‚ Randy Jackson‚ ready to fly you to absolutely nowhere!” declared Randy as he shoved the microphone back into the wall. My heart sank to my stomach‚ as I hated to fly on planes. I couldn’t even fathom the thought that I was stuck on this plane forever. I rubbed my hand along the smooth armrest and gripped the end as tightly as I could‚ hoping this was
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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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Author Randy Pausch stated‚ "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are there to keep 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
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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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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 no matter what. Pausch uses pathos by emotionally
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SKINPUT: Human Body Touch Screen Debuts at Computer-Human Interaction Conference ATLANTA‚ GA (March 23‚ 2010) -- Skinput is a novel‚ non-invasive technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission and allows the skin to be used as an input surface. Research findings on this always available‚ naturally portable‚ on-body finger input system will be presented at the next ACM Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference‚ CHI 2010 Skinput: Appropriating the Body as an Input Surface
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SKINPUT Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon University and Dan Morris and Desney Tan at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond‚ Washington‚ recently came up with their latest invention called Skinput‚ which represents a skin-based interface that makes it possible for a person to use his or her palm as a touchscreen. The Skinput can be used to play games‚ control various devices‚ make phone calls and surf the Internet. The invention features a keyboard‚ menu and a number of other graphics that appear
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On September 18‚ 2007‚ Dr. Pausch gave his memorable “last lecture” at Carnegie Mellon University. It is a tradition at Carnegie Mellon University that when a professor is retiring‚ they give one last lecture as their final goodbye. The idea of this lecture is to give an hour long speech that covers everything an individual would want to say if you were hypothetically dying. In spite of this‚ in Dr. Pausch’s case‚ he was literally dying with a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer this being the
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Randy Kraft Sotey Thomas Dr. K. Dowler California State University Stanislaus This research paper is based on the actions of the serial killer named Randy Kraft. This paper will contain three separate theories that will be used to describe and possibly answer reasons why he did what he did. The three theories that will be included are rational choice and routine activities from the Choice Theory‚ the social strain theory from the Social Structure Theory and the social control theories
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