Randy Pausch Last Lecture Analysis

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Randy Pausch: Last Lecture Well, there were no instructions on the professionality of this paper so I’m going to pour my little heart out. As someone who watches lectures and TED talks out of pure interest and introspection I have never encountered something so inspirational, light hearted, and beautiful from a man on his deathbed. Even my time volunteering at Suncoast Hospice and the beautiful stories of fulfilled dreams and success haven’t been so eloquently constructed, or spoken with such vigor as Randy Pausch had put them in just over an hour. “Child-like wonder,” sums up his attitude, and what I believe is what had the audience and other viewers in the palm of his hand. Nothing resonates in a human’s mind more than the final words

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