Review Of ' Dr. Cleamon Moorer

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it (James Bryce). If measured by the rule of the quote, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow has tremendous worth. Randy Pausch, a professor dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” at Carnegie Mellon in 2007. In the book, he reflects upon the lessons of his life experiences mentioned in the lecture. The lessons addressed ways to lead a fulfilled life. At first, his experiences seemed to be entertaining stories from his past, but as he progressed through each chapter, I began to realize the mentoring quality of the stories. From the lessons, I carried away invaluable advice. While it would be difficult to visit and elaborate upon every lesson, there were three that were most memorable to me: the importance of obstacles in our life, how honesty is a better character builder than false praise, and the uselessness of complaining.

In chapter 1, the author Wes Moore slowly had to watch his father die. Wesley (his father) was “no longer in the picture” and Wes Moore was nothing but confused about his father’s death. One of the very few memories he had of his father was that he was his “protector” (Moore 11) and always felt safe around him. Wes, at the age of four was already dealing with lots of emotions and he felt like he was “standing in a field when a powerful gust of wind suddenly blows: everything around you vanishes” (Moore 14). I can’t relate to losing a parent; however I can relate to the feeling where everything around you suddenly vanishes and you feel like everything has taken over. You feel like life has been put in pause and still can’t seem to comprehend

The motivation I was effected with from reading this book caused me to change my behavior especially, academically. Rudy devoted his time having twelve hour study sessions, worked with others that’s outside his crowd, and didn’t let his kolohe past ruin what he has approaching his way. “He explained that my application was excellent, my MCAT score was solid, and I wouldn’t have a problem getting into “somewhere”.” In the beginning of college, Rudy would have not expected to be anywhere, let alone out of Hawaii. He got a full scholarship at Creighton, and was headed to Nebraska. Although Rudy didn’t have any faith in himself, this book helps motivate me to start believing in myself.

I closed my eyes in disbelief. I refreshed the page. I thought Ms. Platt had attached another student’s rubric to my essay. I wanted the nightmare to end. Not only did I not receive an “A” or a “B,” but a “C-.” I earned a seventy percent. My eyes watered, and I began to feel nauseous. I felt as if I failed myself and my family. This grade was not supposed to be possible. In the words of Grendel, it was an accident. But unfortunately, it was not. At that moment, I had to accept, even if I did not want to, that I, for once, did not reach my high goals or had to surrender my unrealistic view of myself. I had erred, like all humans do, and learned that I was not perfect and that I could fail to reach my standards. At that moment, I realized that I wasn’t superhuman but human, and this was something challenging for me to cope with at the time. However, in discovering my ability to fail, my perception of myself had been revolutionized.

” I told you, you were stupid”, said John Almy’s mother in his story “Alphabet Soup”. This is a point in the author’s life that haunted him forever and made him think he could never succeed in school. Many students may have similar episodes in life that have discharged them from doing well academically. I have had some low points in my own past but today I am determined to earn success by working hard and learning from my mistakes.

She recalls the struggles, the fun, her failures and even her success in the end (Harding, 2011). The personal story shows the real road it takes with decisions we make “when entering college, Harding wrote that she began college because she felt it was expected of her”(Harding, 2011). College students often make choices based on what they perceive as pressure to do so by others like councilors, parents and even society. They enter college thinking this is what my plan should look like and not making choices that are the best for them. Harding said that in the end “ we all become graduates of one of the finest universities in the world- and already, nobody much cared how we got there”(Harding,2011). To me this shows that even if you pass by the skin of your teeth, you can still fail in the end. A diploma is not the end result that maters the most. Students need to choose colleges that appeal to their needs and goals and not just go to get a diploma. If students spend no time studying weather boarded or not liking their studies, then what difference does the diploma make in the end. Students would just have a degree that often goes unused in life but the costs is ever mounting to these students. The financial cost, the cost of failure, loss of energy and time, causes many students to never finish their education or even to avoid going in the

Failure is an obstacle, everyone during their life must face and come to accept. But, what really is failure? I see failure as when you try to achieve at something, but do not succeed in doing so. A person who has faced many letdowns in his life is Denzel Washington; as he talks about failures in his 2011 University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address. During his speech, uses of rhetoric can be heard all throughout his words. Making the message he is trying to say to the graduating students that still have their lives in front of them, just so much more robust. Washington’s use of all three kinds of rhetoric throughout his speech about defeat and how to change your thoughts to overcome them.

Today, I eat lunch with friends, I find comfort in my clubs, and sometimes, I fail. When I lived in Florida, I never had to cope with failure, as everything came to me easily. What I know now is that failure is an unavoidable aspect of life, and I know I’ll encounter it wherever I end up. When I moved up the East Coast, I learned how to face failure head on and accept that there are days when I can’t be perfect. But I am now able to learn from my failures and keep them in mind when moving

Be Patient. Sometimes you have to go through the worst to get the best. The Store is about how a young African American narrator, who does not seem like a “goal seeking animal,” but by the end, he has enrolled in Georgetown University. The narrator seems to triumph over negative and positive circumstances that often stifle a person to not succeed. In this paper I’m going to discuss how the positive circumstances kept him on the right track. How the negative circumstances affected him and how he triumphed over them.

Failure is perhaps one of the most influential things in people’s lives because it can alter the course of our actions, by teaching us persistence or leading us the opposite way. Through his book, Dr. Cleamon Moorer guides me through an intimate journey about his progression from failure to promise. Cleamon is from a small town of Detroit with parents, who love him and enforce discipline, but most importantly, they nurture his faith in Jesus Christ. He excels in academics during both elementary and middle school; however, his mischievousness throughout those years earns him many disciplinary sessions. In high school, misbehavior becomes history, yet, his GPA suffers in the low C’s. But with his father’s tough discipline and his own effort and faith in God, he later receives nomination for the National Honor’s Society. As his college experience begins, Cleamon Moorer attends GMI with enthusiasm and works along many of his classmates at GM, but when the courses become more difficult after each semester, his grades fall below the required minimum; hence, he becomes a “flunk-out”. Yet, he does not abandon his education; he does not surrender to the failure; in fact, he learns from it. Then, with years of tenacity, patience, and faith, he ultimately becomes a professor at the same university at which he had failed.

In the story “The Right to Fail”, author William Zinsser, speaks about the necessity of failing in order to succeed. He argues about America is not granting its citizens the right to fail, someone who stays at home is more of a failure than the dropout kid, success can be dangerous, finally the younger generation understand failure better. Zinsser uses Thomas P.F Hoving and Fred Zinnemann who both became successful people to support his argument.

Dr. Mannix- Summary Sheet A Basic Biography Dr Mannix was originally head of the Maynooch College in Ireland before moving to Melbourne, Australia in 1913 as Coadjutor to Archbishop Thomas Carr. He was outspoken about Catholics being denied the right of religious education and his main goal became to receive justice in this area. Mannix rejected compromise and encouraged Catholics to be assertive of their beliefs. Within a year of Dr. Mannix’s arrival he gained a substantial amount of public attention to Catholic Australians’ oppression.

It is common while growing up to be told “everybody makes mistakes” or “ learn from your mistakes.” However, when the word failure is replaced with mistake the inspirational quote is suddenly negative and not taken lightly. Society has viewed failure as unacceptable when in reality it is inevitable. Both essays, “In Praise of the F Word” by Mary Sherry and “The Right to Fail” by William Zinsser advocate for the change of how failure is viewed in society through an abundance of anecdotes, allusions, and some humor. However, Sherry hopes that overall the frequency of failure will stop, while Zinsser promotes failure as a positive learning tool.

“Very few people believed that I would graduate. I proved to the nonbelievers that they were wrong. ”(267).These are 2 of the many examples in this publication of how they broke this chain. They changed their lives for the better. Because of prejudice acts against them, they were always reminded that “people like them” didn’t have a very bright future.

In the beginning of Davies speech he explains that he is an author and how being an author is more of a state of mind rather than a job. He goes on to say that he will be quitting his job as an author and pursue a new job. Failure is something that Davies believes will come with finding a new career but he tells the university students that failure is something that is easy to live through and that the only failure that breaks the spirit and that failure is the failure in life itself. The thing about that type of failure is that it does not just come suddenly, it creeps up on you and grabs a hold on you with you knowing. Davies begins to talk to about how this failure is considered one of the seven deadly sins and this one in