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    Randy Pausch was an extremely smart man who managed to achieve his childhood dreams. He was professor at Carnegie Mellon for computer science and other technology related subjects. For example, he is the creator of Alice which is a famous software program that is still used to this day. Pausch also worked at Disney by helping research virtual reality technology. Randy finally settled down with his wife, Jai, and was happily married with three kids. In 2006, Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer

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    life forever. In the speech “Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” by Randy Pausch, his good advice can change someone's life for the better and can have a positive impact on life. Pausch talks about his life and the struggles he faced throughout his life. He talks about the hardships of life as well as the remarkable moments worth remembering and the inspirational moments. Great advice can change a life forever. To start off, Pausch gives great advice on how to live

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    Randy Pausch Biography

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    I couldn’t imagine going through the same situation as Randy Pausch, it’s possibly the hardest thing to hear. With that in mind, I would have to try to make the best out of it; like Paucsh said “You have to decide whether you are a Tigger or Eyeore. With strength and pain I would try my best to always be the fun-loving Tigger in my last moments. My decision would be to spend my last moments doing what I love with the people who are closest to me. The memories that you make will over power having

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    Randy Pausch Reflection

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    Randy Pausch was a man who lived an incredible life even though it ended too soon. Once Randy learned that he had pancreatic cancer, he began to feel a need to leave something behind for his young children to remember him by. The something that happened to satisfy his need came in the form of the “Last Lecture Series”. In his last lecture, Randy shared his wisdom that he obtained over the years, his memories, and his hopes for his children. All the information that was shared in the last lecture

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    Randy Pausch Quotes

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    Tanner Kordish Summer Reading The Last Lecture: 1. In the novel, The Last Lecture, the main character Randy Pausch explains how he is able to change or grow depending on the situation in his life. He says “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” What he means by this is that a negative situation can be reversed into something positive depending on how you look at it. He also says “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out

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    Randy Pausch; Speaking Strengths By Amanda Apatow Communications Paper #2 February 28th 2012 When faced with the knowledge that you are about to do something you love for the last time, how would you react? When Randy Pausch, a virtual design professor at the University of Carnegie Mellon was given the diagnosis of liver cancer with only a few months to live, he knew that everything he did would be the last time he did it. Randy chose his last lecture to be an inspiring tribute to his life

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    Dreams.” This book engages the reader in his or her own way, but still keeps the plot personalized to the author, Randy Pausch, who was confronting his mortality through the harsh experience of pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was also a very successful computer scientist. The lecture presented to reader in the book is the lecture that Dr. Pausch gave his students four months before he died. He tells the reader about his childhood dreams and how he successfully

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    The Last Lecture The Last Lecture, a book that inspires someone to look at life differently and appreciate the time they are given. Randy Pausch was a computer science professor who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which at some point, ended up being terminal. He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was very much loved and respected. Before his time would come, he was asked to give one last lecture which was to be presented as what he would want to tell the people around him

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    Grade 8: Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture 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. Every now and then, we ask ourselves this question; What is good advice? Good advice teaches people how to improve upon themselves. In the video “Last Lecture,” featuring

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    Randy Pausch was a teacher, who taught his students valuable lessons dealing with Virtual Reality and also with life. He spoke countless lectures in multiple colleges, like the University of Virginia , and Carnegie Mellon University, where he went to obtain his Ph.D. Pausch was most known for his book, The Last Lecture. This book is based on a lecture he spoke on called, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” which happened to also be his very last lecture. In September of 2006, Randy was diagnosed

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