Curb Your Enthusiasm

Leadership has always been a core part of who I am, because having a vision is a tiny bit of the puzzle towards making change. The true change comes from directing how other people act towards your goal. You can multiply the benefits of your endeavors when you have a larger group simultaneously working towards your goal. On Prior to this class i only understood that you can either be a good leader or a bad one. I also knew from personal experience that leadership styles varied according to the…

Professor Bearing’s Journey Through Cancer In the story “Wit “by Margaret Edson, the author depicts how a professor by the name Vivian Bearing was brilliant, cold hearted and then she became filled with kindness. Professor Bearing was a tough love teacher; she doesn’t really care about the students and their struggles. Her main fervor is for 17th Century poetry, especially the complicated Holy Sonnets of John Donne; well at least at the beginning of the play. In the latter half of the story…

Lecture, because it told a story about a life that was ended shortly by cancer. Randy was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University before his death. He thought before he passed on he needed to create a lecture named “Really achieving your Childhood Dreams”. On September 18, 2007. Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at age 47. He was still young when he passed away. When he found out about his diagnosis, he wanted to create his last lecture. So, people would know…

Their songs had many different effects on people. The songs “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” were bringing out the adoration and jolly feeling inside of people. People could have a happy and better sensory. Then, songs that go with the “typical” rebellious and standing for your rights song started to get produced. The songs “Revolution” and “Strawberry Fields”. In “Revolution” they write lyrics such as, “you say you want…

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…

stereotypes about gender since it was created. People may not always notice that the media of TV shows are influencing them, but they are. No one can escape being influenced by media. This has happened to me. I have watched The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother and loved it; however, I never noticed the many gender stereotypes that it has portrayed. Until I read an article explaining the stereotypical roles assigned. People believe that media plays a large role in creating social norms.…

In the show, “How I Met Your Mother” a group of five friends in their twenties share memories, experiences and jokes while each embarking upon their own unique journeys through early adulthood. In the ninth and final season of the show, the eighteenth episode revolves around the wedding day of two of the main characters. Barney Stinson and Robin Scherbatsky are getting married, but Barney, the opportunist, high energy groom is completely incapacitated from his previous night out. With wedding…

Stevie Wonder is well-known for his Rhythm & Blues sounds and as a singer-songwriter and record producer. Wonder was born in Saginaw, Michigan on May 13, 1950. His original birth name was actually Stevland Hardaway Judkins name by his parents Calvin Judkins and Lula May Judkins. Wonder was blind due to the fact that he did not receive enough oxygen in the incubator as a premature baby. So he was diagnosis with retinopathy of prematurity, which made him blind. Wonder had numerous talents that he…

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…