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Randy Pausch “The last lecture” on Randy’s pausch speech included about his experience and what was his dream and advice for new generation, his family and for all the people to be a better person and achieve their goals. As a public speaker I evaluated his speech different ways. On his speech there are three things that I have focused on it. These are his eye contact, voice, gestures, and repetition phrase to keep audience. The first think am going to talk is about his eye contact. Eye contact is the most important for public speaker and helps to connect with our listeners, improve the pacing of our presentations, read our listeners’ responses. Thus, randy used all of those things. For example while he was speaking about his dream he had a good eye contact with his audience this which showed that how he connects with his listener. Due to that there were an audience concentrated to his idea and listen what he said and laugh about his excellent word came out from his mouth. This all about the eye contact of his experience so, I learned from it how to be a good speaker on deliver a mes...

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