The Last Lecture

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…

Disorder. From then till about 5th grade I had two tutors that helped me with reading and comprehension, and spelling it is now my strongest subject “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”- (Randy pausch, The last lecture) This lecture is about the importance of family, achieving your dreams, and finding out what you really want out of life. Family to me are the people that love you the most and are the people that will always care about you the most and 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…

Last Lecture An Irish proverb states, “You cannot read a book without learning something”. This is true in many ways, especially in The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. Randy Pausch was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer before he started writing his book.. The book is a collection of stories that the author wrote in order to teach the reader lessons that could help them in life. I learned things not only through his stories, but also through the way he reacted to his diagnoses and…

Randy Pausch took the lessons he had learned throughout his existence on this Earth before he had become deceased and put together something special for everybody. During his last months alive, he was able to create the book The Last Lecture. A book that has a lesson about life hidden inside every passage someone reads. However, life is not always easy and you will hit many bumps along the way to becoming a better and stronger person. His book had many lessons that I am fortunate enough to be…

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…

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…

1. What is the purpose of the “Last Lecture” college professors? The purpose of the “Last Lecture’ college professors was to offer reflections on their personal and professional journeys. 2. Even though she had always been his “cheerleader”, why did Professor Pausch’s wife not want him to deliver a “Last Lecture”? Professor Pausch’s wife, Jai, did not want him to deliver a “Last Lecture” simply because she felt that this project would be too time consuming. Jai wanted to spend as much…

In Randy’s Pausch’s lecture “Achieving your Childhood Dream” he talks about brick walls, the cards we are dealt, having something to bring to the table, gaining experience, gratitude, the importance of having specific dreams. Pausch’s gives great advice on life and understanding how to grow from every experience we go through in life. Although Pausch’s had dealt with many short comings in his life, which included being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Randy Pausch referred to the obstacles we…