After watching Randy Pausch’s speech‚ the “Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams‚” there were three visual aids that he used to guide his speech. One of them was the vest with the arrows sticking out of his back. He explained it was an emblem representing his journey when he was teaching a pioneering course. He said to the audience that if one tries to take on pioneering that they “will get those arrows in the back.” The point he was getting at was the fact that you will face obstacles and
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The Last Lecture: Archiving Your Childhood Dream by Dr. Randy Pausch is helpful‚ meaningful and valuable lesson to me. It took me back to my childhood memories and reminded me one more time about a thing that I forgot when I was a kid‚ my childhood’s dream. I think as like as Randy‚ we are all had a dream when we was a kid. So‚ in Vietnam last eighteen years ago‚ when I was a kid‚ I dreamed about become an astronaut‚ a super hero‚ or become a psychologist. However‚ when I grew up day by day‚ I realized
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Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams My first words after the video were‚ “What an inspiring man.” Randy spoke with such excitement and joy. His body language was light and free. His voice was honest‚ relaxed‚ clear and confident. I had to start the video over in the very beginning‚ because I was confused on whom he was. I had to be reminded that he was the one with cancer‚ not someone he was talking about. I enjoyed listening to his positive and encouraging
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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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Paresh Uppal Reflection Paper MS12A051 My Reflections upon the Organizational Behaviour Course A 24-year old‚ Gen-Y guy entered a B-School with an aim to enter the Operations Field. He was asked to go through a Core course of Organizational Behaviour. He thought to himself‚ “What does an institute like IIT think‚ asking an aspiring MBA-grad to go through this HR Course?” Well‚ that was me at the beginning of this quarter when I saw the time-table for this quarter. I have been through
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