Randy Pausch's Speech Analysis

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Jim Carrey or Randy Pausch? Funny-guy or cancer-victim? The commencement speech or last lecture? Jim Carrey is Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, and film producer who delivered his speech to Maharishi University of Management’s class of 2014. Randy Pausch, a pancreatic cancer-victim, was an American professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University who delivered his speech to a group of his college students. Whose speech was better? Both speakers exceeded expectations in areas regarding inclusive eye contact towards the entirety of each of their audiences, and appropriate voice inflection with meaningful hand gestures throughout their speeches. When it comes to

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