Instructor Helen Chandler English 1301-2023 February 9, 2012 “The last Lecture’s backgroung” The last lecture was for most of the students and readers a seemingly average book written by a writer who was going through a difficult health problem. That writer, Randy Pausch just wanted to let his audience know about his childhood dreams and how he achieved most of them. He shared with readers and listeners in one of his lectures how achieving their dreams is the best way to “live their life well.” However, going deep through the lecture, it is not difficult as an analytic reader, or listener in the case of being part of the speech, to figure out the rhetorical devices used in narration. Regardless, importance of this last lecture, these rhetorical devices were used in a very clever way to provide: clearness, persuasion, and sentimentalism. One impressive tool used was clarity, the structured and choreographed explanation between his personal and professional life, left nothing for the reader to ask for, every paragraph was clear and meaningful; by giving examples and using props to make him even more understandable, and reliable for his audience, Pausch led his readers and listeners right what he wanted.
The reading gives him other eyes to see the world, the goal that will change his life, came back to college where he became a dedicated student. That he finish college for be someone in life and for love of his family. Response: In the reading of “A Change of Attitude” by Grant Berry, I wonder if everyone passes by the same situations where reading is not a luxury is a necessity that everyone need to be someone in life and reach our goals. Where high school is not the end of our education is the preparation for college. Like Berry, who decide to continue college and never said that you can’t, that nothing is impossible in this life just the death.
This man is amazing on how he perceives life, and how his life was changed forever by a devastating cancer. Randy was a father of three young kids, married to a very understanding and loving wife, Jay, and a professor at Central Michigan University. His future was set in front of him, until he took a trip to the doctor that changed his life. Randy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that was going to take his life in a couple of months. Most people would sit at home and complain and cry about it.
He believed in digging deep to find the passion and desire you did not realize you had. He criticized when he needed to and gave praise when there was room. He taught me to never settle for mediocre. Today, I take his leadership and apply it to my everyday life by striving above and beyond what people expect. Life Purpose There use to be a time when I was not sure of my life purpose.
These codes are for Diseases of the Circulatory System 5. Jerry C., a 47-year-old male, is here to see his regular physician, Dr. Warren. Jerry has a family history of pancreatic cancer, so he is very diligent about his
Caroline Matkom A.P. Psychology Hour 6 “If you live your life the right way, your dreams will come to you.” This quote comes from the energetic, fit, and lively Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. From the cheerful and handsome man standing in front of the lecture hall, one would have never guessed he was admits his final months of a terminating battle with pancreatic cancer. The Last Lecture is indeed the last lecture Dr. Pausch ever performed, a retrospective, reflective testimony of his short yet passionate life. The lecture included varies aspects of Erik Erickson’s stages of psychosocial development, such as the elementary school stage, middle adulthood and late adulthood.
There is also “The Sarge”, Mike Marsh, who helps Dave out get his life together as well as Dan did. This autobiography shows a missing part of Dave’s life. He speaks about what he went through in his youth and what he had to do to build up his self esteem and overcome all that he was put through by his mother and others who saw him as nothing. As hard as it was for him, he shows that with the help of people he met that grew care for him, he was able to see what he was capable of by taking time out of their lives for him. First, one of the challenges Dave Pelzer faced in his youth was finally being taken out of his mother’s house and put into foster care.
On Thursday October 11, 2012 guest speaker Larry Hirsch presented a lecture of his parent’s survivor story as holocaust survivors. Many would have believed that Larry would have spoken of sadness and death surrounding his parent. Instead, he spoke of how their lives came to be, beginning with his mother because she had deceased at a young age. Larry then spoke in detail of his father and all of the accomplishments he had made with his wife. Their story was very touching and could make a believer out of anyone that no matter what struggle you face in life you can still succeed.
She talked about what a smart and out spoken man her father was, and a person that her family had always looked up to, she saw the life and the goodness that her father had in him starting to fade away at the end. It got to a point where he could not read or even do something that he likes doing and that was cross word puzzles. Susan went threw a lot of medical treatment that with her father that I would have done to. That is one out of a million people that stuck by her father the way she did. In 2002 her father was diagnosed with metastic head and neck cancer.
Small Cell Cancer of the Lungs I am going to do my final research paper on Small Cell Cancer of the Lungs. I have chosen this topic because 8 years ago this December my father was diagnosed with and passed away. He passed away 3 weeks after he was diagnosed. It was a very tragic time for my mom and my entire family to have him fine one day and the next 3 weeks is fighting for his life. Although, researchers say that no one ever passes away from cancer it is the complications that the body goes thru with cancer taking over.