Randy Pausch The Last Lecture Analysis

The Last Lecture is a small book, only a mere 206 pages, split up into six parts, with chapters that span from 3-5 pages. Rather than working off of one main story or memories for the entire book, the author wrote various parts with different themes to each part. As for the chapters in those parts, the author provides different anecdotes from his childhood/adulthood that relate to the main idea of the part. For example, in part three, “Adventures ... And Lessons Learned,” the author provides an instance where he intentionally spilled soda in his clean convertible car while a trip with his niece and nephew. He wanted to show then that it is okay to make messes or mistakes. The second lesson he wanted to show them is, people are far more important

In the book, The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch is dying from pancreatic cancer and is only given a few months to live. With the time he has left, he makes it his priority to spend it wisely. Pausch states that he has an engineering problem and he’s going to do his best with his limited resources. His engineering problem is his health. Even though his body is failing him, he is going to push through and overcome the new obstacles he is facing in life. Pausch is also faced with “brick walls” but he doesn’t give up when things get tough. He uses the brick walls as an opportunity to show how badly he wants whatever is blocking his path. My “engineering problem” is being able to afford college for as long as I can. I’d say that my “brick walls”

“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.

methods, he inspired his students to be themselves and act like individuals. He teaches them to

In Randy Pausch 's "Last Lecture," Randy discusses how he achieved all of his childhood dreams throughout his life and how he helped others achieve their dreams. Often times, childhood dreams are forgotten due to life stressors, other opportunities and interests that come along and, ultimately, believing that those childhood dreams are unachievable. However, this was not the case for Randy Pausch. Randy created a list of things that he desired to experience throughout his lifetime, and through persistency, acceptance and some modification, he was able to complete his list. Similar to many children 's "being an astronaut" dream, Randy had a couple dreams that seemed impossible. These seemingly impossible dreams on Randy 's list included: "being in zero gravity," "playing in the NFL," and "being Captain Kirk." While Randy never received the opportunity to play football for the NFL, his understanding and lessons learned from his football experiences made up for this shortcoming. Nonetheless, Randy was able to conquer all of his other dreams. With each dream Randy discusses, he explains each "brick wall" he hit along his way and what he did to get around these walls.

You would think a man dying of cancer would not be so happy and willing to spend the last few months of his life giving a lecture. But, Randy Pausch, who has 10 tumors in his liver, does not want people to pity him for having cancer. Rather, he wants to teach people how to follow their childhood dreams. Looking at the seven elements of communication we see how he is so effective in his last lecture.

Randy Pausch’s “The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” was given on September 18th, 2007, shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. Randy made his goal of the speech not more than five minutes in, stating the importance of achieving your childhood dreams. The language he is using is very formal, and he appeals to the audience by making several references to common things such as movies, and a humorous quote after he states his current condition, “I’m in better shape than most of you!” as he proceeds doing pushups on stage. In various points in his speech, he is speaking to certain individuals in the audience about things pertaining to his story, and how he achieved some of his childhood dreams with the help of others. Randy really hit it off with everybody, and made the speech untimely, so that anybody at any point in time can view his speech and wonder “is this still relevant?” Near the closing of his speech, he states that he wasn’t giving to speech for everybody in the audience; he was giving the speech for his children, as he wouldn’t be around for them growing up. At several points in his speech he makes references to common things and statistics, such as MacBook’s and how few people have one. At other points he referenced things such as Steve Jobs + Wozniak in their garage, as him and his team build his VR setup for under $5,000.

In the novel, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow, Pausch recalls painting his bedroom walls after the permission of his parents. If my parents gave me permission to paint my bedroom walls, I would first paint on my favorite quotes on one wall. They could be quotes from my favorite books, movies, or important historical figures. For example, Mahatma Gandhi’s quote, “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” is a quote that I have to remember to follow when I am afraid to become a leader and change what needs to be changed in life. Basically, the quotes would be up on the wall just so I can look at them everyday for inspiration, or when I need them when I hit rock bottom. In addition, I would paint on all the ideas and hobbies

“Brick walls are there for a reason. They’re not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” This was the mantra Randy Pausch lived by in his terminating life. In his book, which I learned the quote from, he talked about many challenges he overcame throughout his life. The largest obstacle I have had to overcome is the challenge of being a part of many extracurricular activities while maintaining above average grades in my rigorous schedule throughout the years.

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

In the period of enlightenment, many people lived by certain ideals and traits that people lived by. There were ideals such as hard work, setting goals for themselves, getting an education, questioning why things occur, using logic and reason. and self improving for the improvement of society. Just as people during the enlightenment practiced these ideals, Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, expresses similar traits of honesty, hard work, gratitude, patience, humility, and self improvement in his speech titled as the “Last Lecture”. Pausch persuade the audience to follow basic principles like that of the Enlightenment through his tone, his intended audience, his purpose, ethos, pathos, and diction.

I had the pleasure of receiving the opportunity to engage in a lecture by BIll Preinitz at the Weston Historical Society this past Sunday March 26. At the lecture, Preinitz utilized his history and math degrees to produce a both informational and engaging discourse on the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. This lecture not only further prepared me for Monday’s test, but fascinated me and greatly expanded my knowledge of the war as it pertains to other elements of history discussed in class.

Randy Pausch gives advice to his students in his last lecture. Use examples from his lecture to answer the question: What is good advice? Your answer should be an essay with two or three body paragraphs and quotes from the text to illustrate your thinking. Follow the RACER format.

The Last Lecture began as a good-bye speech, made by Randy Pausch, a 47 year old professor diagnosed with terminal cancer. His speech at Carnegie Melon University became an Internet phenomenon. It has also been published as a book. I really thoroughly enjoyed his Last Lecture speech. He had a lot of good talking points and brought up some new perspectives, or ways of looking at life situations that got me thinking. He talked a lot about his dreams when he was a child and was very humorous and inspirational throughout his speech. He also had a lot of quotes that I really enjoyed and they are what I want to focus on.

When i went to Disneyland, I was eight. It was 2013. My mom surprised us at christmas. We walked in and huge luggage bags were under the tree. Mine was pink, and my sister’s bag was blue.We were driving to California; my mom’s friend, Dee, was driving us.