Michael Tighe Marianne Bird My Legacy I have thought about what stuck out at me from Randy’s Last Lecture. What I always get is the same thing, and that is not to get upset if things aren’t going your way. Make do with that you have and show others that you can still be as successful without some of your dreams becoming true. Randy Pausch’s left a legacy to his two sons and daughter for them to follow as they grow up. He left them being known as one of the nicest everyday-person to meet and how he always looked up, as he didn’t want to dwell on something that was out of his control.
Jason Peter expressed how much mental strength he possessed as he led the reader through his life story and never seemed to have lost hope. A reoccurring theme in Hero of the Underground is hope. Peter repeatedly mentions how hope is what carried him through his addiction. Peter says, “after each surgery, after each long, painful recovery, the hope would return. The hope that maybe this was it, I was fully recovered, I could get back to the business of playing and winning games” (Peter 114).
His family got closer together while they were not busy in front of the TV, reading news or magazine. Through the book, Colin Beavan sends us the message that: “Together, we can make the difference for a better future, for a better life, and a better environment.” I admired Colin Beavan because he tried his best to help the environment even though it is so hard to go through a year with so many rules. I admired him because he knew that individually, he and his family could not change anything at all, but I believe that he sent a powerful
Although Armstrong persistently denied allegations of doping, even stating he was the most tested athlete in the world and suing accusers of libel, he finally admitted to doping in a television interview conducted by Oprah Winfrey in 2012. Armstrong was a child athlete, an Iron Kids Triathlon winner at the young age of 13 as well as national triathlon champion in 1989 and 1990. Winning the Tour de France seven consecutive times was no easy feat, he was a champion, a legend. Sponsors such as Nike, RadioShack, Anheuser-Busch and Oakley believed in him and made him wealthy. He faced many critics throughout his victory years, and continuously denied every allegation of cheating by doping.
In the movie Rudy, Rudy wants nothing more then a chance to be in the football game to make his parents proud. It’s his senior year when he finally gets a chance to play. Even though it wasn’t that long he is ecstatic because he overcame years of just practicing and finally made his parents proud. Not only were his parents happy for him but his teammates were ecstatic. The underdog is someone who makes everyone stronger, by proving that hard work does pay off.
My very first reaction when I saw the first minute of the lecture, I was surprised. I first thought he would sound monotone and with no emotion but by watching the first minute of the video, he was enthusiastic and making jokes. He was prepared for what is going to happen to himself. He puts things aside that does not have anything to do with his childhood dream such as his diagnosed cancer, his family, and religion. He also does push ups to prove him that he is healthy and in good condition so people do not need to feel sorry for him.
Willy’s beliefs and actions stem from his fear of being alone. His desires to be well-liked lead him to raise his sons to be ideal figures and loyal companions – something he never had in his early days. When speaking to Howard Wagner about his career origins, he replies that, “Selling was the greatest career a man could want. Cause what could be more satisfying then to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?” He speaks of Dave Singleman, a salesman who dies on the job, supposedly to the great melancholia of his peers. In Willy’s eyes, he is already immortalized, a martyr who serves as the spokesman for a noble cause.
Freedom- be yourself and don’t let anyone get in the way of who you are and what you want to do 5. Integrity- when it comes to family, friends, or a stranger, always share of help a person in need 6. Reason- do ONLY what is best for you or others, you are in control of what YOU do. | S | M | T | W | TH | F | S | D | | | | | | | | B | | | | | | | | M | | | | | | | | F | | | | | | | | I | | | | | | | | R | | | | | | | | This past week, we have been learning about Benjamin Franklin and reading his autobiography. Benjamin Franklin was very prosperous and successful in spite of his bumpy road in the beginning of his life.
After Chris Gardner was evicted from his home, his mind evolved on the world around him. The thing that saved him and his son, was Chris’s intelligence with numbers and people. His mind set him to a higher goal in life; happiness. Many things we succeed in require our minds to be used properly. As said by our third president, Thomas Jefferson, “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
The love and support is needed to sustain one health and wellness. Victor Frankenstein’s early life had a lot of support around him, and the result his life was at content: “No youth could have passed more happily than mine. My parents were indulgent, and my companion amiable"(66). Support simply removes all worries and hardships: “such was our domestic circle, from which care and pain seem forever banished”(71). That soon all changed