Carnegie Mellon University

In the speech, “The Last Lecture”. Given Randy Pausch gives advice to the listener from personal experience. Addressing what he believes to be good advice. He aims to leave the audience with a positive outlook on life and wanting them to learn to take challenges with stride and appreciate life. This presentation touches the hearts of many listeners and delivers his final messages beautifully. Moveover his words carry a lot of meaning and through them we see what he wants to convey. With…

In the speech the “The Last Lecture” given by Randy Pausch, he explains how he wanted to work as an engineer at DisneyLand theme park. He then applied for the job and he got a letter back that practically said that he could not work there. But instead of giving up he kept the letters and learned to correct his mistakes,he soon did get the job at the park. So take criticisms and use them as good advice. Randy Pausch took on the letters that rejected him and critiqued himself to get the job. Good…

Andy Warhol was a famous artist in the 21st century. He first began as a simple boy living with his parents. He would always win a contest his mother made up to see who could draw better. Andy was a shy boy who wasn’t very confident with his own looks. When he was a child he had Sydenham’s chorea because of this disease he was bedridden as a child most of the time. He believe this was the most important time of his life, because that’s when he discovered entertainment. Later in life Andy…

Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science and Virtual Reality creation at CMU, creatively delivers his speech titled, “The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” He speaks to the audience in a very informal manner, making himself more approachable and easy to listen to. He introduces his three main speech topics in the beginning, His Childhood Dreams, Enabling the Dreams of Others, and Lessons Learned. His first main point, His Childhood Dreams, is one where he looks back…

In Randy’s Pausch’s lecture “Achieving your Childhood Dream” he talks about brick walls, the cards we are dealt, having something to bring to the table, gaining experience, gratitude, the importance of having specific dreams. Pausch’s gives great advice on life and understanding how to grow from every experience we go through in life. Although Pausch’s had dealt with many short comings in his life, which included being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Randy Pausch referred to the obstacles we…

Throughout Randy Pausch's childhood, he was influenced by the details around him. These details would help Randy Pausch become successful later on in his life. For instance during his childhood, Randy Pausch’s football Coach helped Randy become successful. Coach Graham was a very strict coach that would always push Randy to his limit. During Randy Pausch’s first day of training, Coach Graham made Randy practice without any footballs. This taught Randy about fundamentals. Randy learned that to do…

On August 6, 1928 a little baby boy named Andy Warhol who was soon to be a famous American artist. His birthplace was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When Andy Warhol was in the third grade he had a disease called Sydenham's disease. During the time of his sickness he was stuck in bed but while he was in bed he would usually listened to the radio or usually collected pictures of famous people back then. Andy Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945. After high school he wanted to become…

Randy Pausch walks out on stage to deliver the “last lecture” smiling and joking, seemingly, without a care in the world. Little to the audience’s knowledge of the elephant in the room, he is dying. With only three to six months left of good health, Randy is dying of multiple tumors on his lever. Randy displays how people can react to death differently depending on where they are in life, their coping capabilities, and what they find their joy in. Another factor that comes into play is how…

and his family moved to Chesapeake, Virginia to be close to his wife’s family, so she would not be completely alone with the kids after he passed away. He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and was invited to give a “Last Lecture”. He delivered his “Last Lecture” titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, at Carnegie Mellon on September 18, 2007. He choose to not make it about cancer or the hard times he was currently going through but in his lecture he talked about topics such as…

I believe this book relates to this class because, like this class Mr. Pausch shows us that we can speak openly about death and work through any issues we may have related to it. For example, in his book he spoke about how his cancer diagnosis had given him the time to have important, open conversations with his wife that he would not have been able to have if he had died abruptly. He also spoke about how well she was coping and how she was doing due to having these open conversations. Like his…