Lecture

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…

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…

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…

During the lecture by Silver Donald Cameron, I was introduced to the problem our society faces with power and entitlement. This issue was not obvious to me at first but once I listened to the educational lecture on society and our environment it was clear to me that power overrules our health and our environment. Power is defined as “legal ability, capacity, or authority” (Dictionary . com), the key word in this definition being authority which is what effects our society and our environment so…

Rhetorical Analysis: Shirin Ebadi Nobel Lecture Shirin Ebadi is the first Nobel Peace Laureate from the Islamic world. Ebadi, an attorney, also happened to have been Iran’s first female judge. She took up the struggle for fundamental human rights, especially for women and children, following her dismissal from the role of a judge as a result of Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979. On the occasion of the award on December 10, 2003 at the Oslo City Hall, in Oslo, Norway, Ebadi, after expressing…

The entire Angela Davis lecture was phenomenal. She discussed so many topics and interacted with the audience, which turned the lecture into a fun experience and not only informative but also very entertaining to listen to and watch. I would grade the lecture with an A. I love how she related everything from the past to present because in reality not much has changed when it comes to racism and slavery and the challenges we face as not only African American but also being an African American…

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…

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…

but that’s not actually the case according to Randy Pausch. His understanding of obstacles or “brick walls” as he states, “brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” In Pausch’s book, The Last Lecture, there are many instances throughout his life where a brick wall has come up, but it hasn’t stopped him from achieving most of his childhood dreams. Everyone at some point in their life will have a time where an obstacle may uprise, causing…

Last Lecture Mainly in this video Randy Pausch is stating how he achieved his childhood dreams. And for him to also to be sick then he accomplished what he dreamed of doing is very inspiring. As he is in the video he does not let the fact that he is sick and only have a few months to live. He did not show that feeling or even wanted to talk about it. In this video he wants to talk about the positive things in his life that he accomplished. Also giving advice to the audience and others on how…