CMAT 100.152 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
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Pausch’s Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams You would think a man dying of cancer would not be so happy and willing to spend the last few months of his life giving a lecture. But‚ Randy Pausch‚ who has 10 tumors in his liver‚ does not want people to pity him for having cancer. Rather‚ he wants to teach people how to follow their childhood dreams. Looking at the seven elements of communication we see how he is so effective in his last lecture. The lecture has affected me personally
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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‚ being gracious and being humble. To stress his thoughts and views on life and following one’s dreams‚ Randy Pausch used a
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Earnest is better than hip In The Last Lecture there is a section that is called “Earnest is better than hip” written by Randy Pausch. In this paper I am going to explain what the lesson Randy learned was‚ and what the incident he learned the lesson from was. At the beginning he explains that he would take an earnest person over a hip person any day. He says that because a hip person is someone that is not serious and jokes around a lot. An earnest person is someone that is honest‚ hardworking
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In the talk given by Randy Pausch‚ Achieving Your Childhood Dreams‚ Pausch gave some of his personal insights on life. He began his presentation by addressing the “awkward elephant” in the room‚ explaining that he had liver cancer and was expecting to live three to six months. Pausch quickly establishes that this is not something that he wishes pity for‚ but rather‚ conveys his attitude that these were the cards that have been dealt to him and he simply has to make the best of what he has left. During
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most of the information we know about it comes from letters written by slave ship captains‚ slave traders‚ or people that opposed the trade all together. We have very little firsthand accounts from actual slaves as to what life was like for them. Randy J. Sparks’‚ "The Two Princes of Calabar‚" reveals a bit of this mystery by telling the tale of two Princes out of Old Calabar that were captured and forced into slavery but were able to record some of their travels and eventually find their way back
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Different people define success in many different ways. What is considered success by one person may be viewed as failure by another person. Randy Shilts‚ a homosexual newspaper reporter / author‚ attempts to make fundamental changes in America’s opinion on AIDS. In Randy Shilts’s essay‚ "Talking AIDS to Death‚" he speaks of his experiences as an "AIDS celebrity." At the core of Shilts’s essay is the statement‚ "Never before have I succeeded so well; never before have I failed so miserably"(221)
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those skeptical people around us‚ and the feeling of triumph gives us the power to go ahead and demonstrate to everybody that we can make the impossible possible. In the chapter‚ ”They Just Blew Me Away”‚ from The Last Lecture‚ the author‚ Professor Randy Pausch‚ discusses the amazing experience what he had with his students from Carnegie Mellon University and how he felt when his students blew him away. I‚ too‚ have had the experience of blowing away my computer programming teacher. These examples
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“The Lost Art of Thank-You Notes” It has become unfortunate that something as simple as a thank-you note has been slowly forgotten and less prominent to the point that when one is actually received‚ it almost seems unusual. I believe Randy Pausch was correct when he said‚ “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.” The thank-you note is old-fashioned‚ simple and personal at the same time. Nevertheless‚ the emotion and gratitude that the gesture
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The song You Got a Friend in Me by Randy Newman is a very famous song about friendship and it became even more popular after its appearance in the movie Toy Story. The lyrics read “You’ve got a friend in me.” This would describe the same bond which Jeremy‚ a 12 year old looking forward to being a teen‚ and Lizzy‚ a young lady whose mother left her when she was a year old‚ have with each other. In the story Lizzy helps Jeremy find the keys to a box which his father left for him. Lizzy spent her entire
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