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Michael Carnow   Professor Patricia Nunez   15 October 2008   PD-100 (MW 9:35-10:55)   When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going   In the book The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, there were many lessons of wisdom and words to live by. Randy Pausch decided to write a book about himself, and his last lecture because he was dying soon. Randy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and even after multiple treatments of the hardest chemo and radiation therapy, ten tumors managed to move onto his liver, giving him only three to five months to live. After finding this out, Randy battles with the cancer and how to prepare his children’s lives with him not being around.   From an early age Randy Paush was different from normal children of his age. He set out and wrote down all his childhood dreams. His childhood dreams contained dreams such as; being in zero gravity, playing in the NFL, authoring an article in the world book encyclopedia, being Captain Kirk, winning stuffed animals, and being a Disney Imagineer. Randy set out and achieved all his childhood dreams except one. Unfortunately, Randy Paush was never a member of the NFL. However, he clearly stated that this was the one childhood dream he learned the most from. You would think that not achieve a childhood dream such as playing in the NFL would crush a child. However, Randy took this set back (or brick wall as he would called them) and looked for the positive, the lessons from not achieving his goal. Rather than dwelling on his failure.   He tends to his wife and makes sure that they will be in the best possible situation when he leaves so they can be taken care of when he’s gone. Throughout the story, Randy gives lesson of how to live your life, and memories of his own, so you gain a sense of how wise Randy truly was Randy’s book inspired me to follow my dreams, and that you can make the best out of anything. This book truly does offer wisdom about the importance and meaning of life. Randy tells how he lived his life...

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