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    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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    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 LecturePausch 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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    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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    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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    The Last Lecture              A Father‚ Son‚ Husband‚ Professor and Role model‚ known to be as Randolph Pausch. In the novel The Last Lecture‚ Randolph shows faith‚ perseverance and hope. A dying man teaching millions how to live their lives‚ by achieving goals and accomplishing them. Randolph Pausch was an inspiration to thousands of people and became an Internet sensation from his novel and last lecture.             Randolph Pausch also known to be as Randy was a Father of Three children

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    Dr. Randy Pausch was an American professor of computer Science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. He learned that he had suffering from the pancreatic cancer in September 2006‚ and in August 2007 he was giving a terminal diagnosis:”3 to 6 months of good health left.” He gave an upbeat lecture titled “The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” On September 18‚ 2007‚ at Camegie Mellon University. On the stage that day

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    Nick Torigian English Paper Choices Essay The author Randy Pausch shows his love for his family and his happiness towards people who surround him in his life. Pausch shows how important choices are in showing your family your love and happiness throughout the hardest times in his life. Also‚ Pausch expresses he is happy towards complete strangers and the people he interacts/surrounds himself with. The memoir The Last Lecture shows us that our choices are important in showing others and your

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    The Last Lecture In the last lecture by Randy Pouch he expresses his feeling on his life and how he wanted to be and an imaginer‚ the three most important messages by Randy Pouch‚ could influence you‚ and maybe you will see your life and things in another way‚ he has influenced me with some of his messages. The most important messages in the last lecture‚ were “Don’t Complain Work Harder”‚ “Never give up”‚ and ‘Never lose the child wonder”. In the first message Don’t complain work harder‚ he’s

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    Count: 428 Randy PauschLast LectureRandy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who discovered that he had pancreatic cancer and was given 3-6 months to live. He is known for developing and telling a speech he called “The Last Lecture” in which he explains his accomplishments in life which include his childhood dreams. His positive‚ humorous‚ and inspirational persona made watching this speech a learning experience‚ as well as a pleasure to watch. Pausch truly delivered

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    to pick what your lasts words on this world would be‚ what would you say? Would you focus on dying or how you spent your life? Many professors around the world are asked to take on this task of composing and delivering a “last lecture”. This lecture would be giving to students at colleges expressing what your lasts thought would be if these were to be your last moments on this world. In Randy Paunch’s LAST LECTURE it was a little different. He got asked to prepare this last lecture but in his case

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