Today I was in class and heard Mr. Sexson saying something about a deck of cards and being delt. Well the quote is in my quote section but I will put it here too. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." Randy Pausch.
I think everyone has someone who influences them in some way to change their lifes. Well I have two people. My son and Randy. My son taught me that I had to change my life and Randy and his last lecture taught me how.
First I am going to tell you about Rany Paush, he is a professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University. He use to live in Virginia with his wife and 3 children.
I first was "introduced" to Randy on ABC with Diane Sawyer. She was convincing people to go out and buy the last lecture. It was a good show on him. It explained Pancreatic cancer and the odds of serviving it and so on. I was moved and thought I have to hear this lecture so I went on Barnes and Noble (I am a memeber) and bought both the cds of "The Last Lecture" and the book. I listened to the book in one day and read the book in two days.
His Last Lecture was about "What would we want as our legacy?" My Poem. A Postcard from a Volcano. Our legacy as a person. What is my child going to know about me? And how did I live on this planet?
Acheive your child hood dreams! Even though he was dying his lecture wasnt about that. He was actually doing push ups saying he was more fit them most in the room. And he was. Amazing! It was about "Really acheiving your childhood dreams"! It was about overcoming obstacles, enabling the dreams of others and seizing every moment. It was about living.
I remember him telling us he took a subaticle in Disney land. HELLO! How much fun would that be to work in Disney Land? He says it's okay to deligate. Stand up when you talk to people on the phone and pase so you arent on the phone long. Don't lie! Tell the truth. Don't be to cocky! Let your kids paint their walls! Don't sweat the petty things, pet the sweatty things. Do want you want to do. READ THIS BOOK PLEASE!!!!
Thank you for taking time to read this blurb about him. He has changed my life and I hope he can yours. Also if you want to know more go to his web site.
TheLastLecture.com.
Vocabulary Words
Dromanon- The thing that is done
Real Time- As it happens.
Theodicy- Question of the god.
Oedipus- Swollen Feet.
Etymology- an account of the history of a particular word or element of a word.
Ate'- Doom caused by ignorance & Guilt.
Attention- notice or awareness
Peripeteia- a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, esp. in a literary work.
Cartharsis- you go out and imitate it.
Purge- to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
Scapegoat- a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
Sparagmos- Liture that rending or tearing of live flesh.
Aristophanes- 448?–385? b.c., Athenian comic dramatist.
Bawdy- With Bawd- Obsene
Obsene- Off Sage
Synx- Father figure (Senetor)
Mirth- Laughter
Anamnesis- You don't learn anything, anything you leard is a remembering of something else. -Plato
Exemplary- Good example
Plot- Mythos drawing to make play
Anagnorises- (in ancient Greek tragedy) the critical moment of recognition or discovery, esp. preceding peripeteia.
Recognition- an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
Salutary- promoting or conducive to some beneficial purpose: wholesome.
Synchronicity- Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in junian theory as explanatory principle on the same order as causality.
Eviscerate- Take what is inside out (the guts)
Bil Dungsroman- A coming of age story.
Prig- a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise fonformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
Pander- from Shakespeare character panderous: sexually elicit to something
Genre- a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like
Archetype- the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or which they are based: a model or first form; prototype.
Quotidian- Direryness of the daily.
Purfuntery- Very minimum.
Asetic- a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
Accovchevr-Male Midwife
Abluations- Washing or cleansing of the body as religious right.
Extrodinary- beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established
Parody- a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing
Epiphany- Great Realization
Rimy- Covered with frost
Literal- in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical
Divination- Opening a book and running your finger over the book and there you go.
Mis En Abyme- Story within a story
Euphemism- the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
Ordephical Oricles- Always tell the truth
Opulent- Richly, wealthy, or affluent.
Volta- Trun or twist in a poem.
Prosody- the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
Carpe Diem- Seize the day!
Sestet- the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit
Dialectic- (Greek: διαλεκτική) is controversy, that is, the exchange of arguments and counter-arguments respectively advocating propositions (theses) and counter-propositions (antitheses).
Prosaic- of or having the character or form of prose rather than poetry. Dull
Repetition- the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
Echolalia- 1. Psychiatry. the uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person. 2. the imitation by a baby of the vocal sounds produced by others, occurring as a natural phase of childhood development.
Polymorphous perverse- adj. Characterized by or displaying sexual tendencies that have no specific direction, as in an infant or young child, but that may evolve into acts that are regarded as perversions in adults.
Poinet- destressed to the feeling
Palindrome- a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward
Prema Material- Prime material
Epiamethus- Thinks after the thought
Promethus- Before
Artificer- Artistic maker
Poeisis- Poem
logos- Truth
Mythos- Stories, imaginary
Fundamentals- Of or relating to the foundation or base; elementary
Comedy- Starts off sad and ends happy
Tragedy- Starts off good and ends bad
recognition- an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized
Anagnorises- (in ancient Greek tragedy) the critical moment of recognition or discovery, esp. preceding peripeteia.
Exemplary- Good example
Dromanon- The thing that is done
Irony- Literature. a. a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
b. (esp. in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.
Real Time- As it happens.
Theodicy- Question of the god.
Oedipus- Swollen Feet.
Etymology- an account of the history of a particular word or element of a word.
Ate'- Doom caused by ignorance & Guilt.
Attention- notice or awareness
Peripeteia- a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, esp. in a literary work.
Cartharsis- you go out and imitate it.
Purge- to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
Scapegoat- a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
Sparagmos- Liture that rending or tearing of live flesh.
Aristophanes- 448?–385? b.c., Athenian comic dramatist.
Bawdy- With Bawd- Obsene
Obsene- Off Sage
Synx- Father figure (Senetor)
Mirth- Laughter
Anamnesis- You don't learn anything, anything you leard is a remembering of something else. -Plato
Exemplary- Good example
Plot- Mythos drawing to make play
Anagnorises- (in ancient Greek tragedy) the critical moment of recognition or discovery, esp. preceding peripeteia.
Recognition- an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
Salutary- promoting or conducive to some beneficial purpose: wholesome.
Synchronicity- Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in junian theory as explanatory principle on the same order as causality.
Eviscerate- Take what is inside out (the guts)
Bil Dungsroman- A coming of age story.
Prig- a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise fonformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
Pander- from Shakespeare character panderous: sexually elicit to something
Genre- a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like
Archetype- the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or which they are based: a model or first form; prototype.
Quotidian- Direryness of the daily.
Purfuntery- Very minimum.
Asetic- a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
Accovchevr-Male Midwife
Abluations- Washing or cleansing of the body as religious right.
Extrodinary- beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established
Parody- a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing
Epiphany- Great Realization
Rimy- Covered with frost
Literal- in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical
Divination- Opening a book and running your finger over the book and there you go.
Mis En Abyme- Story within a story
Euphemism- the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
Ordephical Oricles- Always tell the truth
Opulent- Richly, wealthy, or affluent.
Volta- Trun or twist in a poem.
Prosody- the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
Carpe Diem- Seize the day!
Sestet- the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit
Dialectic- (Greek: διαλεκτική) is controversy, that is, the exchange of arguments and counter-arguments respectively advocating propositions (theses) and counter-propositions (antitheses).
Prosaic- of or having the character or form of prose rather than poetry. Dull
Repetition- the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
Echolalia- 1. Psychiatry. the uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person. 2. the imitation by a baby of the vocal sounds produced by others, occurring as a natural phase of childhood development.
Polymorphous perverse- adj. Characterized by or displaying sexual tendencies that have no specific direction, as in an infant or young child, but that may evolve into acts that are regarded as perversions in adults.
Poinet- destressed to the feeling
Palindrome- a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward
Prema Material- Prime material
Epiamethus- Thinks after the thought
Promethus- Before
Artificer- Artistic maker
Poeisis- Poem
logos- Truth
Mythos- Stories, imaginary
Fundamentals- Of or relating to the foundation or base; elementary
Comedy- Starts off sad and ends happy
Tragedy- Starts off good and ends bad
recognition- an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized
Anagnorises- (in ancient Greek tragedy) the critical moment of recognition or discovery, esp. preceding peripeteia.
Exemplary- Good example
Dromanon- The thing that is done
Irony- Literature. a. a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
b. (esp. in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.
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