The Last Lecture: Archiving Your Childhood Dream by Dr. Randy Pausch is helpful‚ meaningful and valuable lesson to me. It took me back to my childhood memories and reminded me one more time about a thing that I forgot when I was a kid‚ my childhood’s dream. I think as like as Randy‚ we are all had a dream when we was a kid. So‚ in Vietnam last eighteen years ago‚ when I was a kid‚ I dreamed about become an astronaut‚ a super hero‚ or become a psychologist. However‚ when I grew up day by day‚ I realized
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Fishering Analysis In the non-fictional essay “Fishering” by Brian Doyle‚ the writer goes into great detail explaining one of the most feared animals the wolverine. In this short essay the author Brian Doyle explains the significant importance that the wolverine plays in the role of the wild‚ two important populations in Oregon where you might find a fisher (wolverine)‚ along with walking around in the wild looking for nothing particular. In this paper I will examine the writer’s key features such
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Randy Pausch: Inspiration to Both Students and Teachers Randy Pausch was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. In September‚ 2006 he learned that he had terminal pancreatic cancer and a year later he delivered a speech commonly referred to as a “Last Lecture” titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. A video of this speech was posted on the internet and was watched by millions of people. Randy states that while this lecture was given to students and faculty at
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The speaker I selected was Professor Randy Pausch. I have read the book‚ “The Last Lecture” and was very moved by it. In the introduction he absolutely grabbed my attention. He was very humorous and engaging. Even using humor to discuss “the elephant in the room” and to show everyone how he was in good health. He makes you want to listen in the way he opened his “speech”. His nonverbal communication is excellent. He focuses on the audience (eye contact) through the entire speech. He walks
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Brian Robeson‚ a 13-year-old from New York has boarded a bush plane directed towards Northern Canada to visit his father 1 month after his parent’s divorce. He only bears a hatchet that he received from his mother as a gift for the summer. The divorce is affecting his life as it plagues his thoughts‚ but a flying lesson taught by the pilot takes his mind off the divorce. While Brian is managing the plane the pilot starts to have pains all over his torso‚ the cause being a heart attack. Brian pilots
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Diagnosis: Thirty-two year old Brian Hamilton has been court ordered to receive psychotherapy. His history suggests that he has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Brian displays feelings of superiority and specialness (Criterion 1). He believes that he is so special and unique that he can only be understood by other special high-status people (Criterion 3). When Brian first sought out therapy‚ he insisted that he needed an expert and even questioned the experience of a well-qualified highly regarded
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ready‚ or else being in the military is not for anybody! Brian Bond‚ 24‚ is in the Marine Corps. Currently‚ he is still serving and is now stationed in Japan. His current rank is Lance Corporal and his occupation is Air Traffic Control. He made his decision at the age of 18 to go into the marines. He realized that it was something he wanted to do. “I wanted to do something different‚ deplot different places and engage in action‚” Brian stated. He was prepared by being in shape which sports had
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My book that i am reading is about this thirteen year old boy named Brian Robeson who is desperately trying to survive. He was on a plane that crashed in a Canadian wilderness and all he was to survive is what is in the survival backpack that was in the plane. There are only two main characters in the story and they are Brian himself and the hunter that found Brian and his name was David Smallhorn. The hunter lives on a small island on the lake. One of the theme of the story is survival because
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Born in England 1947‚ Brian May is the lead guitarist and singer for the late 1900s band Queen. He started to love music at a young age of 12 and played the piano and ukulele. His love for music started to burst when he got his first guitar on his seventeenth birthday. Shortly after‚ him and his father started to create a new one from scratch. The guitar was known as the Red Special‚ and Brian would use this guitar with a sixpence coin used as a pick. Him and his friends from college‚ Roger Taylor
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Author Randy Pausch stated‚ "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” in his bestseller book‚ The Last Lecture. The author explores the meaning of life’s difficulties‚ and how these difficulties shape our character and help us discover our own potential
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