Character Analysis Randy Pausch

The place where Pausch was giving his lecture was in a lecture hall at Carnegie Mellon. He was giving the speech to many people that he knew but also many others that he did not know. He was in front of a crowd of many people and in a perfect context for his last lecture. You also feel as if he is actually just speaking to you throughout the whole lecture.

Through thick and thin bestfriends are always there for eachother. In the novel The Contender Alfred Brooks struggles to become a contender and reunite with his best friend James. Alfred is a high school dropout and has a job at a grocery store that’s going nowhere. James, his best friend is also a high school dropout but he is messing with the wrong crew. Throughout the story, Alfred begins to train at Donatelli’s gym to become a boxer. Later in the story James, who has been doing drugs, goes to rob the Epstein's store , where Alfred works, and almost gets caught. At the end of the story Alfred finds James in a cave with a cut arm that was caused by the burglary. James asks Alfred for a fix but Alfred, the contender, takes him to the hospital

Many people seem to think that successful people possess extraordinary qualities that set them apart from the rest. It is little known that their “[…] success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky-but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all" (285) just normal human beings who are given extra tools to work with. These tools are the components to success. Three of these components are putting in ten thousand hours of practice, having negotiation and communication skills, and being in the right place at the right time. With these components, an extraordinary person is born out of an

Memory, symbol, and pattern are tools that professors use to analyze literature and draw connections—furthering their understanding of what they are reading. An awareness of patterns makes it easier to read more complicated literature because books fall into similar patterns and become more recognizable and easier to breakdown. If the reader determines the patterns, routines, and archetypes at work in the background of the story, then the complicated plot becomes a little simpler to understand. A great example of this is the play Into the Woods. Into the Woods is a crazy mismatch of multiple fairy tales—the first half of the play is all of the positive aspects of these fairy tales, and the second half of the play is doomsday

Have you been ever asked the question if you were stranded on a island what or who would you bring? What did you say? I have been asked the question, and I would bring Les Stroud from the show survivorman with me. There are many reasons he would be a amazing person to be stranded with. These include that he's a survival expert, knows first aid, and he would be able to keep me company. Les is someone that would actually know how to survive unlike me. He is someone who knows what needs to be done when trying to survive.

Gia is the main character, She has a lot of fears. Her biggest fear was to lose all of her friends. Gia is scared to lose them because she is lying to them because she got a fake boyfriend to take to prom. The real boyfriend actually broke up with her in the parking lot of the prom. All of her friends won't believe her that's why she is scared to bring her fake boyfriend. Gia really loves her friends and she wants them to believe her but it was too hard. Gia will do anything to make her friends believe her, even bringing a fake date to prom.

In the period of 1942-1945 eight jewish people had gone into hiding due to the Holocaust. There was nearly 11 million people that died during the holocaust, and 6 million of them were jews. But the eight people struggling to survive in the most brutal conditions. During the two year period the characters moods change and relationships change throughout the unsparing period.

When I was presented with the of writing about a character who inspired me, I didnt even think twice. Melody, a fictional character from the novel, Out of my mind, written by Sharon M. Draper, is a inspirational character. As the journey takes the reader through a wonderful story, she teaches us a very valuble lesson. A lesson that people of all age should learn. Today our society has many people with disablities of all sorts, like Melody. We are told not to be sterotypical to those considered “normal”. As Melody proves, why should it be different to those who are disabled?

In Kevin Hart’s stand-up comedy show titled “Let Me Explain – Witness the Rise of A Legend,” Kevin Hart goes on a comedic rant about the changes he went thru doing his marriage and before, during and after his divorce that led him to become the person he is today. One comedy bit that stood out to me the most was entitled “Help Me Nigga.” Kevin begins this bit by stating that cheating was the reason why his marriage failed, but immediately after stating this turns around and states that is was actually “lying about cheating” that was the reason why his marriage didn’t last. He proceeds to give examples of the many times that he lied about when he was cheating – even bringing his best friend into the web of lies and somehow always getting

The term of events of the movie August Osage County blew me away. Personally, I think Meryl Streep is a brilliant actress and the way she takes on a character amazes me. Seeing this film for the first time in class just reminded me of how great she is on the big screen. Not only was this movie dark and twisted but so was her family. She played a sick mother suffering from Oral Cancer and a heavy drug addiction, Violet Weston.

Although I am only a “Freshy” at the high school I walk around like I own the high school. Through all of junior high years I was always a kid to look up to, I am that kid that is athletic, but is still friends with some band geeks. I have intriguing style and exceptional foot apparel, whenever I’m in the hallways, I always see eyes looking down at my feet. Transitioning over to a classroom setting, I am a hard worker, once I get shouted at a couple times, but mostly I’m a neat character. I ask a plethora of questions, I’m always so confused in class that's the reason I ask, and just out of common courtesy, I’m asking questions to test your sharpness on knowing your instructions. I firmly believe that comedic teachers are amazing,

It might seem like “The Other Side” and “Wonder” are very different kinds of stories. But if you look deeper into the story you will find out that they have the same theme. They both teach us that just because you are different you can still be friends. The main character in “whonder” is august but his nickname is Auggie. The main characters in “The Other Side” is clover and

He knew his ribs were broken because he could taste iron from the blood in his mouth. After tumbling over the handle bars of his Suzuki GSXR1000 motorcycle, 25 year-old Jeremy McGhee’s body grated against the pavement, skidding to a ragged halt in the middle of a busy California intersection. For the first time in his life, he couldn’t feel or move his legs. He lay there, stunned by the hard landing, taking stock of his injuries. As Jeremy’s thoughts cleared, he began contemplating a question that had never occurred to him before—What would life be like without the use of his legs?

Two unexpected paths collide as 13-year-old Stewart and his dad move in with 14-year-old Ashley and her mom. Stewart is a quirky, socially awkward, but academically gifted intellectual, whereas Ashley deems to be fashionably smart and a popular girl who swerves the attention from all the cute guys and envious girls at her school. After their once normal lives encounter unexpected plot twists, one being Stewart’s mother dying and the other one being Ashley’s dad coming out as gay, the romantic relationship between their single parents forces them to live under the same roof.

Doris Lessing develops a theme ¨Growth Requires Risk¨ in her short story, ¨Through the Tunnel¨, Lessing uses the main characters, Jerry and his mom, along with the setting to develop the theme. Jerry, the protagonist, has spent his summer on the beach with his mother. He has noticed other kids swimming through an underwater tunnel in the bay, he becomes determined to do the same. Throughout his struggling process of going through the tunnel, Jerry realizes that it wasn't all as great as he thought it would be.