Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2006 and then delivered this famous speech; Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, a year later in 2007. This speech has become one of the most viewed lectures on the Internet. Though different techniques and strategies Pausch performed a near perfect speech. To begin, Randy Pausch opens up with a joke followed by addressing the elephant in the room. When beginning a speech you need to get the audiences attention. Jokes in…

The Pursuit of Happyness is a film based on a true story about a single father, Chris Gardner, who grew up in a difficult and abusive childhood. He barely ever saw his dad and even worse he was raped by a man. At the age of 22 he moved to the West Coast to make a living. To make money he started working as a salesman in the medical supply field. Chris and his son didn’t have anywhere to sleep so they were sleeping in public restrooms, subway trains, and shelters. He and his son went through so…

George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt were childhood friends that grew up in the rough neighborhoods of Newark, New Jersey. They all suffered with financial problems and family related issues but despite their difficulties their friendship helped them succeed and eventually gave them a more stable life style. Sam, Rameck and George created a Pact, or a promise with one another, to get through high school and complete a medical program to become Doctor’s. Their dreams became reality because of the…

become great is known as the American Dream. Firstly, what exactly is the American Dream? Kimberly Amedeo states that the Declaration of Independence upholds its conditions, such as “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” (2). Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn both seem to display the American Dream and success in society, albeit in…

will be never-ending to life. Although we have no control over it, we could always subdue it. Fear comes in countless ways, whether it be a fear of letting go or a fear surrounding your ever day life. Pip, a passionate and ambitious young gentlemen, Hood’s reflective and affectionate poem about losing a childhood, and Ebenezer Waggles, a man who has a hopeless passion to write literature into a newspaper. They all result in a sort of fear in which…

school, I decided it was in my best interest to graduate a year early and start my college career. I am a criminologist major that has no idea what I want my actual career to be. I have wanted to be a C.S.I since I was a kid, but college has made that dream seem a little unrealistic. I believed that going to college was something that was going to be best for me and my future. This is because I wanted to be something better than what I had to deal with growing up, I thought college was going to…

speech, he talked about overcoming brick walls and achieving your dreams. Randy gave examples of him wanting to become a Disney Imagineer and going to the NFL. Me personally have not had major brick walls like him, but have had my share of brick walls. From overcoming deaths of close friends and family, to overcoming adversity in sports, I am always doing the best of my ability to achieve my goals. During his lecture, Randy said that throughout your life you would encounter brick walls. These…

Logic creates a story within a story when he flashes back to difficult times of his childhood and how he used those as important life lessons for the future. His polished lyricism and rhyming, diverse library of beats and instrumentation, and powerful motivation and overall motto are his main centers of appeal to his audience of primarily…

Samuel Zemurray and Madame C.J. Walker were viewed from many for achieving the American Dream, the two embodied the quintessential American success stories of a Russian immigrant and daughter of a former slave. Zemurray and Walker, while they had completely different racial backgrounds, the two ultimately were more similar than not, and battled many of the same hardships. In a time of white privilege, many disadvantages emerged for an immigrant and African American women, the odds were strongly…

September 18, 2007, it was entitled “Really achieving your Childhood Dreams”. He wanted to leave it as a message for his children to have a memory of his. Also, he tried to spend as much time with his children as he could. Sadly, he passed away on July 25, 2008 in his home in Chesapeake, VA. Overall, this teaches many things that are valuable in life and helped me realize things that I previously hadn’t known before reading it. This book proves that you really can’t read a book without…