After reading Chapters 1-3 in The Last Lecture, respond to the following writing prompt in a minimum of three well- written paragraphs.

On page 17, Randy says, "We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards
we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

Using specific examples from the introduction and chapters 1-3, give evidence that Randy really believes this statement

What benefit do you think Pausch's idea of using only images in his presentation would have for his audience?

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man