change the cards we are dealt‚ just how we play the hand.” -Randy Pausch The Last Lecture can teach a lot about the importance of life. Randy Pausch found out he only had so long left to live and through his last lecture and this book he shows how important it is to live every moment as it is the last because it just might be. He was asked to give a last lecture as many professors are‚ except he wouldn’t need to pretend it was his last because he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Throughout
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Summary: Randy Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was living a great life with his wife and three children‚ two boys and one girl. He always imagine his life as he was living it. One unexpected day he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The survival rate of this cancer is very low so he knows that he was going to die soon. His reaction was opposite to the reaction that you would expect. He reacts very optimistic and decide to give a last lecture. He wanted
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In the talk given by Randy Pausch‚ Achieving Your Childhood Dreams‚ Pausch gave some of his personal insights on life. He began his presentation by addressing the “awkward elephant” in the room‚ explaining that he had liver cancer and was expecting to live three to six months. Pausch quickly establishes that this is not something that he wishes pity for‚ but rather‚ conveys his attitude that these were the cards that have been dealt to him and he simply has to make the best of what he has left. During
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Romancing the Brick wall in Pausch’s Heart When I read the pages 57 – 79 in Pausch’s (2008) The Last Lecture‚ I was surprised and impressed by his expression to his great wife. Even though he continued to love his wife‚ Jai‚ he sometimes felt her to get over such obstructions as a big wall and formidable things. He wrote‚ “The most formidable brick wall I ever upon in my life was just five feet‚ six inches tall‚ and was absolutely beautiful. But it reduced me to tears‚ made me reevaluate my entire
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The Last Lecture In everyone’s life‚ there are people. Some of these people walk in our lives for a second‚ only to run right out. While others walk in and leave a mark on our hearts. Sometimes this mark only lasts for a little while and then slowly fades away‚ but other times‚ this mark lasts for a lifetime. There is one man in my life who has made a distinct mark on my heart -- a mark that was created the first time he picked me up and held me in his arms. This mark has lasted ever since then
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Paper #3: Tuesday’s With Morrie & The Last Lecture In Tuesday’s With Morrie‚ the book really gives you a different perspective on life. It teaches you how thinking positively can really shift your attitude. It also shows how much we should appreciate life and how we need to live each day to our fullest potential. At the end of the day to know that we’ve done our best. To summarize the three main ideas from this book can be illustrated with Morrie’s quotes. These quotes summarized are Live Life
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In the book The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch‚ there were many lessons of wisdom and words to live by. Randy Pausch decided to write a book about himself‚ and his last lecture because he was dying soon. Randy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer‚ and even after multiple treatments of the hardest chemo and radiation therapy‚ ten tumors managed to move onto his liver‚ giving him only three to five months to live. After finding this out‚ Randy battles with the cancer and how to prepare his children’s
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My Personal Leadership Vision and Role as a Provider David Keirsey talks about in his book‚ Please Understand Me II‚ the role and purpose of a Guardian. According to Plato‚ Guardians were the ones to keep watch over the activities as well as the attitudes of the people in their circle. They held morally correct beliefs‚ as well as being alert to both the needs and the perils of others. Guardians are also able to store large amounts of information which they can later bring up in a conversation
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blow away all those skeptical people around us‚ and the feeling of triumph gives us the power to go ahead and demonstrate to everybody that we can make the impossible possible. In the chapter‚ ”They Just Blew Me Away”‚ from The Last Lecture‚ the author‚ Professor Randy Pausch‚ discusses the amazing experience what he had with his students from Carnegie Mellon University and how he felt when his students blew him away. I‚ too‚ have had the experience of blowing away my computer programming teacher.
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The Last Lecture: Response Paper Casey Artigliere University of Delaware I don’t know where to begin or how to respond. I am so saddened by his story and so impressed by both Randy Pausch’s resume and his attitude. I think he is incredibly… cocky‚ but I give him leave to be so and respect him for all he’s done‚ his obvious quirky uniqueness‚ and the legacy he left behind. But that is not why I cried through ¾ of the
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