Which sentence from Last Lecture supports the idea that it's important to have far-reaching goals?
When you are 8 or 9 years old and you look at the TV set, men are landing on the moon, anything's possible.
Which statement about Randy Pausch's Last Lecture is correct?
Pausch uses supporting details related to his childhood to support his central idea.
If Randy Pausch, the author of Last Lecture, had written a speech about receiving his cancer diagnosis and what he did following the diagnosis, which organizational structure would he most likely have used?
chronological ordering
Read the excerpt from Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.
I am in phenomenally good health right now. . . . In fact, I am in better shape than most of you.
Why is Pausch telling his audience this?
He wants them to better understand his current condition.
Which excerpt from Last Lecture supports the idea that one can benefit from helping people?
And as you get older, you may find that "enabling the dreams of others" thing is even more fun.
Read the excerpt from Last Lecture.
There are 50 students drawn from all the different departments of the university. There are randomly chosen teams, four people per team, and they change every project. A project only lasts two weeks, so you do something, you make something, you show something, then I shuffle the teams, you get three new playmates and you do it again. . . .
The first assignment, I gave it to them, they came back in two weeks and they just blew me away. I mean the work was so beyond, literally, my imagination, because I had copied the process from Imagineering's VR lab, but I had no idea what they could or couldn't do with it as undergraduates, and their tools were weaker, and they came back on the first assignment, and they did something that was so spectacular that I literally didn't, ten years as a professor and I had no idea what to do next. So I called up my mentor, and I called up Andy Van Dam.
What is the organizational structure of this section of the speech?
chronological ordering
Read the sentences from Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.
And I assure you I am not in denial. It's not like I'm not aware of what's going on.
Why is Pausch telling his audience this?
He wants them to feel comfortable and accept his positive attitude.
Read the sentences from Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.
And if you're curious about what zero gravity looks like, hopefully the sound will be working here. [slide shows videotape from Randy's zero gravity experience] There I am. [laughter] You do pay the piper at the bottom. [laugher, as the people in the video crash to the floor of the plane on the video] So, childhood dream number one, check.
Why does Pausch show the audience a video of his zero-gravity experience?
to show what being in zero gravity looks like
If Randy Pausch, the author of Last Lecture, had written a speech explaining the different treatment options for pancreatic cancer patients to consider, which organizational structure would he most likely have used?
compare and contrast
The overall structure of Pausch's Last Lecture supports his purpose of enabling the childhood dreams of others because it allows him to
earn his audience's attention and then relay details about his experiences and learned wisdom.
