Randy Pausch

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 uses five techniques, which help connect to his audience. The context and Pausch interactions with the audience makes the speech memorable, and is enhanced by the five techniques he used. Each of these helped connect him with the audience and helps the…

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…

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…

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 stay with it and fight it with alacrity being that, how Randy Pausch overcame…

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…

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…

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…

The Last Lecture Summer Reading Assignment Randy Pausch, a computer science professor, and the author of The Last Lecture enlightened millions of people about the importance of optimism, and perseverance. Since his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer, a terminal illness, Pausch was determined to share his life experiences with those who were egger to listen. His unique writing style and life lessons make it easy for readers to relate. Randy had many moments throughout the book where he shared…

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 handpicked by the Elders and then…

semester to read the book as it was planned at first, it took me two days to finish it. I did not expect to enjoy reading a book so much and I now believe that everybody can enjoy reading books, you just have to find the right book to read. This book is a very large gift in its compact, it is a gift of hope and affirmation, a gift of encouragement and courage. The story of The Last Lecture was that we can face any challenges in this life as long we welcome our fate with optimism and…