Dramatic Structure in Monster Answers

If Randy Pausch, the author of Last Lecture, had written a speech about receiving his cancer diagnosis and how he behaved after the diagnosis, which organizational structure would he most likely have used?

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.

Read the excerpt from Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.All right. A simple one, being an author in the World Book Encyclopedia. When I was a kid, we had the World Book Encyclopedia on the shelf. . . . We used to have these things called books. [laughter] And after I had become somewhat of an authority on virtual reality, but not like a really important one, so I was at the level of people the World Book would badger. They called me up and I wrote an article, and this is Caitlin Kelleher [shows slide of Caitlin wearing virtual reality headset manipulating a 3D world], and there’s an article if you go to your local library where they still have copies of the World Book. Look under V for Virtual Reality, and there it is. And all I have to say is that having been selected to be an author in the World Book Encyclopedia, I now believe that Wikipedia is a perfectly fine source for your information because I know what the quality control is for real encyclopedias. They let me in.

Read this excerpt from "Three Addresses to Girls at School" by James Maurice Wilson.Now that I have given away the certificates it will be expected that I should make a few remarks on that inexhaustible subject, Education. My remarks will be brief.

Which sentence from Last Lecture supports the idea that it's important to have far-reaching goals?

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.

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?

Read the sentence from Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.And that’s something we should not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.

Which excerpt from Last Lecture supports the idea that one can benefit from helping people?

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.