Randy Pausch and Morrie Schwartz
This writing piece will be explaining the differences and the similarities of Morrie Schwartz and Randy Pausch. They have a lot of differences but their are a fair number of similarities between the two and that is what I will be dissecting in this essay. The background about Morrie and Randy are in a way similar to each other. They both have a disease that gives them a time-table to live.
Randy Pausch was born October 26,1960 in Baltimore Maryland. He was a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had a wife, Jai Glasgow and three children, Dylan, Logan, and Chloe. He gave a Lecture called the “Last Lecture”. This
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was a video that was meant for the people who weren’t able to attend to watch. Later, this video became a sensation and gained millions of views on Youtube. The moral of the lecture was to dream and dream big and work to let those dreams come through. Even though the lecture was mainly for his kids, a lot of people were touched by it. After this lecture, Randy lived up to 11 months after he was told he would only live for six months. He sadly died on July 25,2008 in his house in Chesapeake,Virginia. Morrie Schwartz was born on December 20,1916 in New York City, New York.
He was the son of a Russian immigrant,Charlie Schwartz and his mother died when he was young. Morrie later had a stepmother that took well care of him and his brother, she taught him everything about english and he would become a professor of english because of her. Morrie was a professor at Brandeis University. He taught sociology. He also had a lecture with his students about life. He was diagnosed with ALS in the summer of 1994.
Randy and Morrie both had children, but Randy’s children were younger when he left them and he even said that he feels bad that he wouldn’t be there to protect them. Morrie does not have things that he doesn’t talk about to other people and is not afraid to say what he wants to. Randy kind of holds the more personal things back in the Last Lecture because if he does he will eventually break down crying in front of the crowd. That is the difference between him and Morrie, Morrie will not back down from crying in front of a lot of people, that is just the kind of man he is. Morrie did not have a pleasant childhood having a father that was poor and could barely take care of the family and his mother died at a young age. An incident happened with him and his brother and he got polio and Morrie felt sad about this for a very long time. Morrie also felt another devastation when his mother died when he was 8. When his dad got married to a Romanian immigrant Eva he told Morrie
to stop looking at pictures of his biological mother. Randy had a very great childhood he played football and had many childhood dreams he went to a lot of amusement parks and spent quality time with his parents. Both of these stories were very touching and it shows the “good” part in dying even though you are leaving people, your love and kindness will never be forgotten.
...remely complex and impregnated by love and hate is the main similarity between the two texts. Sonny, through his music, is successful in changing his brother’s idea of what he is supposed to do with his life. Unfortunately for Donald, Pete is not and might never be ready to accept him as the human being he wants to be. Drugs are the biggest factor in Sonny’s failure to live and to become a good brother and a true artist. On the other hand, for Donald, the fact of him being unwilling to change who he is and the fact that his brother is always there to save him impedes him from being the brother Peter wants him to be. With or without understanding each other, the love that these brothers share for one another keeps them from completely disappearing from each other’s life regardless of their differences and the obstacles that characterize their complex relationship.
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There are two stories this semester that have been particularly interesting. ‘Paul’s Case’ by Willa Cather is a turbulent story about Paul, a young man who eventually spirals downwards into his eventual suicide. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story about a woman forced into the resting cure by means of her husband until being alone with her thoughts drives her to insanity. At face value, these stories have vastly different plots and outcomes. How are you able to compare stories with different plots? When the ideas behind the stories are similar, it becomes possible. These two stories have many parallels which will be discussed in detail throughout this essay.
When two siblings are born together, and are close in age, many people wonder whether they will be the same or different altogether. A “River Runs through it” shows two brothers who grew up in the same household, and grew up loving to do the same activity fly fishing. Both brothers were raised in a very strict presbyterian household. Norman is the older brother, and he is much more responsible and family orientated. Paul is the irresponsible younger brother; Paul as an adult was not at home much anymore. Both brothers were loved equally as children, but how they view and use love is what separates them. Paul and Norman differ in behavior and character.
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Mitch spends every Tuesday with Morrie not knowing when it might be his dear sociology professor’s last. One line of Morrie’s: “People walk around with a meaningless life…This is because they are doing things wrong” (53) pretty much encapsulates the life lessons from Morrie, Mitch describes in his novel, Tuesdays With Morrie. Morrie Schwartz, a beloved sociology professor at Brandeis University, was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), which most people would take as a death sentence. Morrie viewed it differently; he saw it more as an opportunity. This is because he does not follow the so-called “rules” of society. These rules come from the sociological concept of symbolic interaction, the theory that states that an individual’s
The comparison and contrast between these two stories is evident. They both developed as characters in similar settings but have different situations and outcomes. They differed in their goals and how they would achieve their goals and their mental health status sets them apart. These stories have contrast and similarities, over all the differences outweigh the comparisons.
Dr. Pausch mentions that every individual will show his good side if we wait patiently and that no individual is pure evil. I think this is a something I can truly apply in my life, as I am a person who forms an opinion about someone very quickly and find it very difficult to change that in due course of time. Also the concept of brick walls in life being there to show dedication and make you obstinate is something I will remember in life moving forward. This lecture given by Dr. Pausch truly displays courage, appreciation for life and the very simple concept of ‘work hard and have fun doing it’ which results in a great success. A very tearful watch but delivers a strong life message and caused me to reflect back at my own life and see things in positive light.
Morrie Schwartz the lead character in Tuesdays with Morrie, receives terrible news early on that his death is near, as he is suffering from Lou G...
Morrie helped Mitch discover who he truly is, and gives views on culture and the pressures of fitting into society’s uniform mold.
What Morrie does is he emphasizes the idea because Morrie has been derived from love in his childhood, it foreshadows that this will be a recurring theme in the book. Morrie's mother died when he was very young, his father was always working and wasn't interested in showing affection and love towards Morrie and his brother. When Eva came into their house she provided them with motherly love, that they hadn't had in awhile. Morrie had realized just how important it is to show affection towards others and he emphasized that for the rest of his life. The concept can really relate back to love as an important aspect of life because like Morrie, he didn't really have much love and affection in his childhood until Eva came into his life. Throughout Morries whole adulthood he realized love is significant, because without love you feel like you are worth
Randy Pausch was a man who found much success in his life. He received his bachelors degree from Brown University, and went on to earn his Ph.D in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, later becoming a professor there. He had been employed with major companies, such as Adobe Systems and Walt Disney Imagineering. In September 2006, Randy Pausch discovered that he had terminal pancreatic cancer, and was given 3-6 months to live. He underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy to remove the tumor from his pancreas, but by August 2007 the cancer had returned. After giving a lecture at Carnegie Mellon University in September 2007, called “Really Achieving your Childhood Dreams” (also referred to as “The Last Lecture”), it went viral, and led
Morrie’s messages about life in this book were not solely directed fro Mitch; they are meant for anyone who is willing to take the time to listen. For me, there is not only one thing I learned from Morrie. I learned that I should not take life for granted because you never know when it will be over. Even though I have heard it many times I never really believed that what the media says is not necessarily true, until I read this book. Finally, I learned that love and compassion, not only for others, but also for oneself are essential in living a happy life. It does not matter if someone is rich, or if they are poor for that matter. The truth is that as long as you lived your life as best you could, you learned from your mistakes, and you are happy with yourself, then you lead a fulfilling life.