I Want To Be Remembered Me Research Paper

Throughout our lives, we make choices and decisions that change our lives and others in positive and/or negative ways. It is these decisions that determine how we will be remembered, our legacy. When I graduate high school, I want to be remembered by the qualities that define me as a person and the good I’ve done for others. Throughout the years, I’ve been often been described by my family and friends as bold, confident, outgoing, and hardworking. Not only are these characteristics important to me, but they are important to my family, as they want to leave a legacy in the name of our family. The qualities I have exhibited are the same qualities past family members have shown and are remembered for. Through always putting out my best effort when it comes to work and school, I have shown my dedication and discipline. Through doing what I can to help others, I have displayed my commitment to world peace, the betterment of the world as a whole, and the yearning to make a difference in someone’s life other than my

“Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students?” That is how Professor Randy Pausch, from Carnegie Mellon, began his last lecture, a speech entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” while in fact he was dying of Pancreatic Cancer. He knew he only had months left to live and put together this last lecture to read to his students. His lecture focuses in on points such as the importance of: making sincere apologies, not whining, being gracious and being humble. To stress his thoughts and views on life and following one’s dreams, Randy Pausch used a great amount of repetition, metaphors, allusion, humor, ethos, and pathos in his last lecture.

I had never given much thought into how I would die. There’s something about being young that causes us to believe we’re invincible. It’s not like dying young is uncommon, it’s just that there’s something extra despairing about a life ending before it had really begun. Over the past 18 years, I’ve never thought twice about my mortality. I mean, it wasn’t anything special to me. I knew that I would eventually die, but eventuallies aren’t always as far as you think. Here I am, only 18 years old, my cold body

A seminar series titled “The Last Lecture” took place at Carnegie Mellon University. Professors were prompted to deliver lectures as if it was their last, while containing a “message of a lifetime”. Professor Randy Pausch delivered his speech titled “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” as a part of this seminar on September 18th, 2007, a time in which had just been given life-threatening news. It had recently been estimated by doctors that this was the last three to six months of his life. Instead of speaking as if he was hypothetically dying like his fellow professors, Pausch was in an extremely ironic situation, as for in his case he really was dying, of pancreatic

Death is something that people must deal with every day in our world, and there are several aspects of death that sometimes the living do not consider. For example, how does one celebrate or remember passed loved ones? What happens to you when you die? How would you like to be remembered? There are multiple ways to answer these questions, and examining differing points of view can be enlightening.

On May 11th 2013, my grandma passed away due to pancreatic cancer. A little later that year on September 25th, my mom received a call from my aunt in Guam that my dad had passed away in his sleep. Then on May 14th 2014, my grandpa passed from complications of an allergic reaction to a medication. So within a year, I was left to deal with three immediate family deaths, one right after another. Losing such important figures in one’s life could leave someone depressed and unmotivated to move on with their own life and to rise above those challenges is difficult, yet possible. During this time of hardship, I grew discouraged and saddened, but over time I became motivated to set aside these struggles and make a change.

I want to apologize for the way I conducted myself on the night of January 28, 2017. The poor decision that I made to drive while intoxicated, was morally wrong to the citizens of Mclean County. The night of January 28, 2017, I put numerous people in danger a behavior that won't have recurrences.

Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Huffington post wrote an article called “Are You Living Your Eulogy or Your Resume ?”(2013) . She claims that “It shouldn't take a near-death experience to remind us of  what we’re all going to lose one day” (1).

What it means to be remembered, what I want to be remembered for, certain questions concerning memory and fame. I love watching old movies. I watch the faces of long-dead actors on the screen, and I think about how they'll never truly die… Not just the famous ones who everyone knows… but the bit players… They're all immortal to me. First we only want to be seen, but once we're seen, that's not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.” Both Kirsten and the Frank recognized that it is possible to survive past your life, and into the next. For these who achieved this they did not only survive, but they became

Death is a sensitive topic that most don’t enjoy bringing up. And I understand why. But sometimes it’s best to deal with the topic of death head on. As Randy Pausch said in The Last Lecture, “...when there’s an elephant in the room introduce it”. So here is the elephant: everyone alive now will die one way or another. It’s the unfortunate truth that human life is fragile and one can die as quickly as they were born. However, while death may make you feel somber, just because you will die one day doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy the time that you have left. Abraham Lincoln once said, “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years,” and this quote is very true. As the quote implies, although it is uncertain

In the year 2000 Northwood Ohio household income was $51.071. In Toledo area new buildings were build in the year 2000. The Detroit Tigers moved into a new home, and the Mud Hens place got ruined by a storm and they would be getting a new rink. U.S. sailors on a Navy destroyer Cole died in Yemen terrorist explosion. In Europe there was a mad cow disease. Gas in 2000 was around $1.20, but gas now is around $3.20. Money has changed a lot since the year I was born. A car in 2000 cost around $21,047, but a car now is about $25,449.

As we breathed in the crisp air for the first time, we just established something new. A legacy. Amongst the billions that have already been created and to the future ones that will continue to be constructed everyday. Not one is a copy, but they're unique and individual in their own way, helping to construct whom people become and determine what we leave afterwards. But as for everyone else writing this essay my legacy has just begun, and will carry on for a long time. So let's begin.

On September 11, 2001 something happened that America will never forget. On that day “19 Islamic extremists, al Qaeda hijacked four planes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United states.” Two of four planes were flown into the Twin Towers in the World Trade Center in New York. The third plane was flown into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. The last remaining plane was crashed into a field just outside of Pennsylvania, in total 2,606 people died. The reasoning behind this was hate, as stated on http://www.history.com/topics/9-11-attacks They were acting in retaliation in America's support of Israel and its continued presence. So when asked “Do you think individuals can live together as one human race? I answered no. This day is my main reasons why I think people cannot live together as one human race.

Death is a mysterious phenomenon that can occur abruptly at any time. And, since we have no way of knowing just how long (or how short) our stay on this earth may be, we should use that as motivation to live life to the fullest. We all know what a “bucket list” is, right? A bucket list is a list compiled of things one wants to do or accomplish before they die, or “kick the bucket”. Three things I’d like to accomplish before I die is traveling the world, learning how to play an instrument, and being a great parent one day.

Some people don't realize how simple, yet complicated life is, that the point of it is not to ‘lose or win or become successful', but to die knowing that you have lived your life to the maximum and get the satisfaction from that. That you have created and destroyed, that you lived and the sun shone on you, and most importantly, that you left a footprint behind you.