Carnegie Mellon University

There are a few similarities in the character Jonas from the book The Giver and Randy in the book The Last Lecture. Jonas is a character in a novel, while The Last Lecture is based on a true story of Randy Pausch. Jonas lived in a community designed by the Elder’s as an effort to live a life of utopia. Jonas grew up not knowing who his actual birth parents were, in his community married couples submitted an application to have children. Once the community children turned one-year old they are…

Introduction Everyone has stress in some form or another, and some people have more stress than others. Stress is how a person perceives and deals with issues and tasks in their lives (Myers, 2015). Everyone deals with stress in different ways and some cope better than others. Psychologists like to study stress because of the wide dynamic of effects it has on people physically and emotionally. Stress is connected to many aspects of life which results in a lot of data to research (Myers,…

Life is like a jarring mountain. Life will make you come across many curveballs and you will need to hit back. Randy Pausch repeatedly shows how he never gave up through the various aspects of his life in which he struggled. He always reached to places people have not and proved them wrong. This is very important millions of other people aiming to accomplish something prodigious. In the Last Lecture, Randy Pausch tries to convince us to believe that adversities happen and when they do, we must…

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928-February 22, 1987) grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and went on to become one of the most talented and magical people to ever grace Earth. Andy Warhol, is perhaps most known for his ability to blur the lines between mainstream aesthetics and fine art which is expressed through his works. Notably his works of Marilyn Monroe does this on so many levels. Andy Warhol's parents were Slovakian immigrants. His father, Ondrej Warhola, was a construction worker, while his…

Ever since the industrial revolution, the world has been involved in a constant struggle. This everlasting debate between economic growth and environmental protection has come to light once again with the expansion of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. While fracking was first used in the 1940s, it has not been widespread until recently when it was joined with horizontal drilling (Hoffman, n.d., para. 1). It is a process used to acquire natural gas previously inaccessible with more…

she has turned the tables on me to think on my feet to see how I would begin the very article I am writing now. She poses questions like: Where will I start? What is the purpose of the article? Who is my audience? Linda Flower, professor at Carnegie Mellon, is too modest to state she is a famed expert as a social cognitive rhetorician. She stands directly behind me, so I cannot see her as she speaks to me. I am supposed to feel like I am alone sitting at the table working on this very article,…

Art has always fascinated me in many ways. It is all around and can be seen almost anywhere. I have always found art interesting because of the attention to detail, scale of the projects, and plain beauty involved in some pieces. A very important person in my life introduced me to the beauty of art and from that time on, I have been interested ever since. One time me and my friend went on a road trip to further our interests in art. We went to the Cleveland Museum of Art. I had an amazing time…

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.” (Pausch). When he got denied for acceptance to Carnegie Melon University he did not accept the fact that he was not good enough for them. Through perseverance he was able to convince the University that he was destined to be there.…

The Last Lecture has many opportunities to become wiser and more informed about how to live life in the best way possible. Randy Pausch has many messages hidden within the book. It’s not hard to find important pieces of advice but not all of it is relative to me and my life. In fact there are even some things that we disagree on but that doesn’t mean that all of it isn’t helpful. Randy Pausch was a smart man who had a lot of good advice. One piece of advice that really stuck with me was, “ It’s…

What you want out of life When I was young I had a reading and attention problem all throughout elementary school. From what my parents have told me is that my third grade teacher thought I had ADD But my mom being my biggest advocate found out that I didn't have ADD but actually had Auditory processing Disorder. From then till about 5th grade I had two tutors that helped me with reading and comprehension, and spelling it is now my strongest subject “We cannot change the cards we are dealt,…