The Last Lecture

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…

The Last Lecture Randy states “We cannot change the the cards we are, dealt just how we play the hand.” Randy really emphasizes this throughout the book. The Last Lecture goes through many stories of how Randy rethought his priorities in life after getting diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This made me also rethink my priorities when I was reading The Last Lecture. Randy always has a different approach on life. He never has a no quit perspective on life and never takes “NO” for an answer. This…

remember them by. When we think of others that have passed on we often remember them for a certain quality they possessed. We also remember people for the type of person they were and what they took through life with them. Recently, I read “The Last Lecture” by author Randy Pausch. Paush has terminal cancer, and he tries to find a way to leave behind a legacy for his children and the world. Throughout the book Paush is able to connect with the reader and inspire them to leave behind their own…

Esperanza’s Struggle with Poverty In his book, The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch, who was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, gives a talk about prevailing over life’s obstacles. He asserts the idea of perseverance and tackles his daunting diagnosis with a positive attitude: “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand” (Pausch 17). Pausch uses a metaphor, comparing life to a card game. He explains that everyone is born into a life with accompanying adversaries, but…

Randy Pausch is a brilliant writer and well recognized college professor for a University. Randy has taken on the challenge of writing what he has referred to as “The Last Lecture”. In his book, he reflects to his childhood, which all have played a role in shaping him into the man he is. It was in his boyhood that he developed all these traits, visions and morals. Randy’s juvenescence was an influence on the positive person he developed to be. Randy pertains to a childhood memory, The…

The themes that I chose from The Last Lecture to depict in my art project are; brick walls are there for a reason, and make a decision: Tigger or Eeyore. I favored these themes because they resonate with me and can both be illustrated coherently within the same drawing. In the cartoon I drew, Tigger sits morosely on top of a brick wall pitying a dejected Eeyore. Eeyore, with his pessimistic attitude, is unable to find a way past the wall to join Tigger. Realistically, Tigger would be helping his…

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch is a book about life. It is a collection of stories that mean something special to Pausch and combined together, weave lessons that transcend far beyond mere words alone. With these lessons, Pausch extends his ideas to the reader, and encourages to live out their lives knowing more. The Last Lecture is a story that affected how I looked at the world and made me think of how I could apply his lessons to my life. Personally, Pausch’s lessons opened my eyes to the…

Randy Pausch, an American professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, gave an inspiring last lecture full of life lessons and ways to look at life in a positive way with just months left to live. Randy knew he was going to die, but he also knew that he had a message that many people needed to hear; he changed lives just before his ended. The concept that people are more important than objects is used constantly throughout the book, from winning the parent…

people 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…

end 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;…