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The Last Lecture is a joint collaboration brought to the world from the minds of both Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow that made its debut in early 2008. The book reached the New York Times Best Selling list, and stayed for about 112 weeks, which explains the 4.23/ 5 rating received from Goodreads. The book is based on "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", the last lecture, Pausch was able to perform back in September 2008. The book is essentially about a university professor who summarized…

screaming 55 mph making it inferior compared to Six Flag’s Drop of Doom. Now how would Six Flags compare to Knott’s Berry Farm in the aspect of launched rides? Let’s find out with Six Flags SUPERMAN: Escape from Krypton, a vertical backwards launched steel roller coaster that’s connected to Drop of Doom that gracefully launches you 415 feet high at 100 mph and with a track length of 1,235 it’s one of the tallest roller coasters in the world. Now let’s see Knott’s Xcelerator. Oops, it looks like…

As to advertise their work boots, the company Justin Boots, produced a commercial that shows a construction worker “on his feet all day…building [the] country brick by brick”, who wears his Justin Boots in order to feel comfortable and protected, whether he’s working or hanging out with friends. The Justin Work Boots commercial “construction” encompasses the narrative of an average man who wears Justin Work Boots to carry him through out varied conditions of his day, as well as provide him with…

While the movie is about a professor at Carnegie Mellon University there are a limited number of scenes that actually take place in the classroom. This movie contains drug abuse, parties, and out of control situations that are based within the framework of a university, but have nothing to do with…

academic test that he and his academic team preformed. All of the studies that he quoted related directly to the subject and backed up his argument with a sound logical appeal. For example, one of the studies done, “To test that, we did an experiment on Carnegie Mellon University campus. We asked students who were walking by to participate in a study, and we took a shot with a webcam, and we asked them to fill out a survey on a laptop. While they were filling out the survey, we uploaded their…

APPROVAL OF JIM PATRINOS TO WARHOL BOARD- SHIRY • Dmitri Shiry welcomes the board to the last board meeting of 2016. • The Andy Warhol Museum board has been aggressively moving forward with respect to identifying new candidates for the Warhol board. • The Nominating Committee has identified a handful of individuals that are entering into the beginning processes, though some are further along than others. • The Nominating Committee would like to present the candidate Jim Patrinos to the…

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…

South African politician, Nelson Mandela once said, “Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.” Randy Pausch was a college professor, who unfortunately passed away from pancreatic cancer. Randy’s parents gave him a wonderful childhood, in return, he had a lot of success. An abundance of children today dream of having a childhood like Randy Pausch’s. When Randy was a child, he had freedoms that children today do not get to encounter. His parents would encourage him to paint on…

The premise of this speech is to cover everything you would want to say if you were hypothetically dying and more specificly whatlessons and life experiences Randy Pausch wants to convey to his children . Randy Pausch starts with the “elephant in the room”, Pausch’s diagnosis of terminal cancer serves as an emotional backdrop for this lecture, slightly using ethos persuasive nature to attract the audience’s attention. In addition to revealing some of life’s important lessons, Pausch’s speech…

With a traditional vertical well, energy companies would only be able to get the gas directly next to the well in some rocks. Fracking allows access to natural gas trapped in impermeable rocks such as shale. A fractured well starts in much the same way as a traditional one. The engineer drills straight…