Lecture

live till 78, we may be young and stupid, but we don’t realize how much we take for granted, until it’s taken away from us. However, with a family you will want to pass on your love and advice which is what Professor Randy Pausch did in The Last Lecture. He concluded that he needed to tell everyone about his life to teach them to live their life to the fullest and how to overcome any brick walls that you come across before his life was past the point of no return. When Professor Pausch was…

During the course of the Ignatian Values in Action Lecture, James Martin, SJ discussed many important points. All of the topics that were discussed are important to a person’s life and can shape the type of person that someone becomes. The first topic that James Martin, SJ talked about how “it’s okay not to know”. By this he means that you don’t have to know what your next step is in life. Not everything has to be planned out to perfection, there will always be some uncertainty as to what comes…

of the prior academic year, and were to be completed based on their selection, in addition to the required novel. I remember being unfamiliar with nearly every novel on the list, so I chose one and skipped straight to the required novel, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. My initial thoughts were of genuine disappointment;…

Attending the 2016 Jill McCorkle Lecture, it came to my attention how much key figures in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s English department are praised and respected throughout the community, specifically Thomas Wolfe himself. Bland Simpson, the professor and chair of the department as well as Mark Canada, the president of the Thomas Wolfe Society and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, introduced the 2016 Thomas Wolfe Price recipient, Jill McCorkle, into the audience and…

Classroom Lecture The lecture today was delivered by Dubbie Masters, her topic of discussion is on ethical and legal issues at the end-of-life (EOL). Masters (September 13, 2016) opened the discussion by asking the RN-BSN students, what would they do if the patient has an advance directive. This writer replied that if there is advance directive and it is within the patients’ possession, then the goal is to comply with patient wishes. Advance directives is a way an individual can express their…

In the book “The Last Lecture”, chapter fifty three, Randy Pausch explains and tells a story to give an example of him getting over a brick wall and never giving up. Randy wanted to teach the reader to never give up and to get over that brick wall in front of them. This part in his life taught him that once you get over that wall, you should share your experience with others and possibly inspire them. A quote from the chapter that stood out to me was “the moral is: If you want something bad…

To start with I will describe missiology. According to the power point lecture Overview of Missiology, it says “Missiology is the study of the salvation activities of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit throughout the world geared toward bringing the kingdom of God into existence” (Overview of Missiology). I feel that this is an important part of missions. We should bring people to the existences of Christ. This can be a problem at times because not everyone is able to contact with a different…

In the New York Times article “Are College Lectures Unfair?“, Annie Murphy Paul argues that college lectures discriminate those who are female, from a minorities or low-income households or a first generation college student. Paul evaluates statistics that show that on average all students benefit from active learning courses, while white privileged men seem to do better in lectures. Her main argument for the active learning method is that all students no matter who or what their background is…

inspired by others’ actions which can cause us to become determined to succeed and achieve our goals. George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” and the excerpt from Randy Pausch’s “The Last Lecture” both help demonstrate the two different sides of this spectrum. George…

went to a Wheelhouse Talks featuring Mike Jandernoa. The lecture was held in the Charles Loosemore Auditorium in the Richard Devos Hall. Mike Jandernoa talked about his experiences as a CEO of Perrigo, a pharmaceutical company in Holland, Michigan. Mike became CFO in 1979 when it was just a small local company. Throughout his time there, the company has become a global company, growing from 300 employees to 1400 employees. During the lecture the one overarching theme that Mike discussed was a…