Reflection of Randy Pausch’s “The Last Lecture” Pennsylvania State University Berks Campus The Last Lecture began as a good-bye speech‚ made by Randy Pausch‚ a 47 year old professor diagnosed with terminal cancer. His speech at Carnegie Melon University became an Internet phenomenon. It has also been published as a book. I really thoroughly enjoyed his Last Lecture speech. He had a lot of good talking points and brought up some new perspectives‚ or ways of looking at life situations that
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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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During the documentary‚ The Last Days‚ one speaker affected me emotionally and that was Renee. The anecdote of when she was taken from her home and was demanded to take only her most valuable items hit home. She decided to take only her bathing suit that her father had brought back from a trip he went on and it held so many memories‚ happy memories. This reminded me of my two stuffed elephant dolls that I was given when I was a baby. I have them still and they hold so many great memories for me.
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“The Last Song” is a breathtaking film directed by Julie-Anne Robinson about a teenage girl‚ Ronnie‚ whose parents divorced when she was young and she has been rebellious ever since. Ronnie and her father had a special language they spoke through‚ music. When Ronnie’s parents divorce she refused to play. Not only did she loose contact with her dad she lost contact with music too. This is until Ronnie and her brother Jonah are sent to stay with their dad in North Carolina over the summer. The main
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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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