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The Last Lecture Thinking about finding out when you're going to die. Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Her had a thriving career and a loving family with no regrets of the way he spent his life. For he had already achieved most of his childhood dreams. What was responsible for Randy's success in achieving his childhood dreams aware the characteristics of being earnest, working hard, and communicating with the people around him. One life lesson Pausch was that being earnest will get you further in life. As a kid, his parents taught Pausch that you only need to buy clothes when your clothes wear out. For Randy and his parents, they did not need clothes to show what their social status was. As long as it got the …show more content…

At the beginning of the Last Lecture, it was mentioned that Randy got accepted to do a presentation for the students of Carnegie Mellon. He ended up still excepting the presentation being mindful of his pancreatic cancer. ""They'll let me back out," I told my wife Jai, but I really wanted to do it" (Pausch, 4). These were the words said after Randy found out he had only months to live. This quote is why he's hard working. It was practically the end for him, yet he spent four days putting slides and photos of his family together, once he was on stage, he could feel the side effects of the chemo but completely ignored it in order to give out the knowledge of his life and how those students should live theirs. In order to finish what he needed done, Randy needed inspiration, a goal. "Think of the thrill that was! We were in the coolest place imaginable and we had the freedom to explore it on our own" (Pausch, 166)! Randy's dream to become an imagineer skyrocketed as a kid. In his adult life, his dreams still had not changed. He found out Disney was doing a secret project and asked to meet with one of the directors working on the project. After having a conversation, he was brought on board with the imagineers. Randy's hard work paid off in the end, whether it was working on his lecture months before his death or succeeding in his childhood …show more content…

In many different forms, living a good life could be having a goal, dreams, optimism, or even following words of guidance that were given by others. This is what was responsible for Pausch's success of achieving his childhood dreams, being earnest, working hard, and communicating with the people around him. Even though Randy had already known he was going to die, he made the most out of his time spent. He had already written a novel dedicated for those he loved and given out an amazing speech to the students of Carnegie Mellon. Thanks to his mindset and how well Randy grew up, he lived a wonderful life of achieving his dreams with the support of his family and

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He became convinced that the television was stealing his thoughts and then broadcasting them for everyone to hear. This led him to smash the sides of the television with a hammer and pull the cable box from the wall. The delusion was so convincing that Randy tried to file a police report for “grand larceny” against WJTA-TV. He was convinced that they had stolen his brain. After inheriting money from his aunt, Randy chose to further isolate himself from others by moving to rural Montana.

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In this quote, the author, Wes Moore is sitting in the back of a police car after his first arrest. Moore was arrested while “tagging” his signature “Kid Kupid” graffiti art. Once Wes was handcuffed, he immediately regrets his actions. Wes take responsibility for his action and has no intention of ever having his freedom or fate be determined by someone other than himself. When I read this quote, I felt it was a huge turning point in Moore’s life and a big factor for future

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Bomb: The Race to Build - And Steal - The World’s Most Dangerous Weapon was published on September 4, 2012. It was written by American author Steve Sheinkin. The book is not a story about the Atomic Bomb, but it is the story of the Atomic Bomb. Steve Sheinkin retells the story of the Atomic Bomb and important events involved with the bomb so it is easy to understand for the reader, rather than creating a story around it. He uses real interviews and testimonies from first hand witnesses, as well as primary sources of information, including FBI and government documents.

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(pg. 117) because Randy was being very pitiful about himself and the world. Ponyboy corrected Randy which was heroic because not a lot of people would have corrected his opinion especially if that person was older than you. Ponyboy was brave in the situation as well because he corrected a Soc who was much older and stronger that him. Also, Ponyboy tries to saves innocent people when he knows they are in trouble. Ponyboy saw the burning church he hid in for a few days and said to a man named Jerry who was about to help the children, ‘I’ll get them, don’t worry’ (pg.91) while running to the burning church.

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Howard Schultz once said, “In times of adversity and change, we discover who we are and what we are made of.” In life, one starts to realize everything is not always peachy. Sometimes one has to go through patches of thorns before things start to look up, but in the long run difficulties in life turn out to make one stronger person. In the books Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, and Night by Elie Wiesel, two of the main characters are pushed to their limits and beyond. How these men react to their situation is both mesmerizing, and courageous.

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A person who leaves such an impact on one’s life, as Rake did, can never fully leave it. That is person is always in the back of one’s mind, subtly shaping one’s thoughts and molding the way one

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The author uses revenge as a clear theme, specifically in the ending of the book The Roundhouse. Joe takes revenge on his mother's attacker by killing him with the help of his best friend Cappy. Although revenge was accomplished in Joe’s mind, it did not make the characters, such as Joe and Cappy, feel any better about their situation. However, after he and Cappy, had committed the deed, they did not feel happy, it wasn't a sweet revenge at all as they both had haunting nightmares of his mother's attacker in their dreams. They are both afraid and insecure after their kill and felt nervous around almost everyone.

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After watching the Randy Pausch speech, I have gained a better understanding of what it is like to experience flow. Randy Pausch lived his life dedicated and fully immersed in all of his goals. Whether it was to become the guy at amusement park that won the big stuffed animals or being able to get into Brown University; he did everything to the best of his ability. Although he did not necessarily accomplish his childhood goal, he received greater lessons by not doing so. In trying to achieve his childhood goal, he came to understand that his abilities may not allow him to become an NFL player.

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Jews that were taken away from their homes were all put in train cars and barely had any room. The train cars had no windows and one door that unlocks from the outside. Many Jews were taken into ghettos and Concentration camps filled with people and slept in bunk beds. Many of the Jews were adults and were separated from their kids because they are adults and everyone was separated by gender. Many of the Jews didn’t get enough food

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After years of struggling with depression and anxiety I started believing I was functioning like a real human should. In Roger Ebert: The Essential Man by Chris Jones, Ebert is essentially on his deathbed during the documentary on his life but the audience is never shown Ebert giving up on life. Rather than continue trying to prolong his life with dangerous surgeries, Ebert decided to spend his last remaining days on Earth with his loved ones. If I had been in Ebert’s position, my life

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In life, a lot of people are overprotective of others and it’s mostly toward loved ones, after all, people want to protect the ones they want to keep around for a long time. In “Raymond's Run” by Toni Cade Bambara, Squeaky is very protective of her brother Raymond because he cannot protect himself. These are three reasons why I think Squeaky is very protective of Raymond. This is the first reason that shows how protective Squeaky is of Raymond is that when people run into her she takes everything seriously when she is with Raymond or if it’s about him. For example, when Gretchen came up to Squeaky and Raymond and they started talking then when Mary asked “What grade you in now, Raymond?”

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Adam Braun learned his toughness from his father and gained his tenacity from the stories of his grandparents who had survived the Holocaust and fled to America. Adam relied on these characteristics when he struggled to hold down a well-paying job on Wall Street that promised him a bright future while pursuing his dream of helping poor children in developing countries who had little hope for the future.

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During their conversation, Randy says, “I’m sick of all this. Sick and tired,” (Hinton 116). By “all this” Randy means all the fighting and hatred between the Socs and Greasers. This conversation was very important to the story because it was one of the first times a Soc went up to a Greaser and they attempted to understand each other. Randy wanted peace, which was something hardly and Socs seemed to want.

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The quote is significant by connecting to an Essential question because it describes the difficult situation of the Greases, and the hopelessness of the fighting. Randy has decided to leave town instead of attending the rumble that night, and he explains to Ponyboy why. Ch 8 Pg 121

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