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Anthem By Ayn Rand
1,648 wordsImagine a world where the individual has been repressed to the point that the word I no longer exists. Now, as hellish as that sounds, imagine that you are the only one who has the capability to break free from the iron fists that are choking you and your brothers. This is the life of Equality 7 - 2521, the principal character and narrator of Ayn Rands Anthem. Anthem takes place in the dark ages of the future, in a totally collectivized world. This culture has regressed to conditions reminiscent...
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Called For His Wife Mat And Perrin Rand
2,472 wordsThe Below are the chapter names and following them will be a short summary of each chapter. Overall the book was excellently written the imagery that it portrayed was excellent although at times the character development was more then drawn out, but in this particular book it suited the plot and the fantasy theme that it tried to express to the readers. As you may read, the chapter reviews are very brief and they will really only bring the basic meaning of what happened. Before the actually summ...
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Important Thing Three Days
2,480 words... new and dreamed about, leaving their town and seeing the world was upon them but none of them showed that they were ready This is where the quest theme in the book really begins Here is where they begin their travels Only two important things really happened here The order of things came together, they were shown that moraine had absolute control of the situation Other things that happened were the group was attacked for the first time and they had to separate Tom and Mat and Rand together w...
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Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
1,208 wordsNo thinker, perhaps, has had more influence upon contemporary libertarians than the novelist and non-academic philosopher, Ayn Rand. For that reason alone, she deserves attention; however, many of her arguments have been misunderstood, misrepresented or ignored. As George Smith has commented, there has appeared relatively little in the way of competent reflection of Ayn Rand as a philosopher. Accounts written by [her] admirers are frequently eulogistic and uncritical, where as accounts written b...
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Ayn Rand Moral Principle
1,164 words... as turned down by 12 publishers). For example, in Atlas Shrugged, Rand obscured historical realities to reinforce her argument and once again exaggerated the situation. Thus, the Taggart Railroad of the novel, the central setting, may strike someone with an average knowledge of American history as the kind of thing that never existed. Most people know that the transcontinental railroads were built with federal subsidies and federal land grants, (which is ironic within itself. Rands theory de...
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A New Era Of Graphic Design
1,174 wordsPaul Rand was one of the most influential designers of this or anytime. His approach to design is considered by most as one of the most modern approaches to design ever. Rand has worked out of his studio in Weston, Connecticut for more than the past thirty years. During those years he was a faculty member of Yale University from 1956 thru 1962, he decided to resign from this position because the University had demanded that contemporary design techniques had to be used. This was completely again...
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Alexis De Tocqueville Ayn Rand
1,918 words... ark is acquitted. V. THE TWO TRIALS: LITERARY METHOD & LEGAL METHOD The Cortland trial, then, turns out quite differently from the Stoddard trial. In the Cortland trial Roark does not rely on the direct perception of the decision-maker to render a normative judgment. Indeed, he cannot, for it is a way of life that must be judged. Interestingly, we the readers can make precisely the sort of judgment Roark sought in the Stoddard trial because we have been able to perceive the competing way...
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Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
1,381 wordsAtlas Shrugged The novel Atlas Shrugged was written by Russian-born writer and philosopher Ayn Rand and published in 1957 in the United States. It is a controversial and widely popular work. According to a 1991 Library of Congress report, the novel was recognized as the second most influential book after the Bible in the lives of its readers. A complicated combination of mystery, love story, social criticism, and philosophical concepts, the more than a thousand-page long novel embodies the autho...
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Psychological Egoism Psychological Egoist
1,988 wordsPsychological egoism is Egoism Egoism Psychological egoism is a reflex that every person has to orient themselves toward their own welfare. Through this, it follows that every one of his (or her) voluntary actions is some good to himself. If someone gives away the last piece of bread to someone else, it is because they want to look like a better person. Due to the fact that they would give away the last piece of bread. Human nature is completely and exclusively egoistic. People are entirely self...
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Couldn T Important Thing
5,330 words{Book One of: THE WHEEL OF TIME} Title: The Eye of the World By: Robert Jordan Length: 782 pages The Below are the chapter names and following them will be a short summary of each chapter. Overall the book was excellently written the imagery that it portrayed was excellent although at times the character development was more then drawn out, but in this particular book it suited the plot and the fantasy theme that it tried to express to the readers. As you may read, the chapter reviews are very b...
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Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
2,421 wordsThe Joys Of Contriving Literature (Why Ayn The Joys Of Contriving Literature (Why Ayn Rands Theories Dont Hold Water) No thinker, perhaps, has had more influence upon contemporary libertarians than the novelist and non-academic philosopher, Ayn Rand. For that reason alone, she deserves attention; however, many of her arguments have been misunderstood, misrepresented or ignored. As George Smith has commented, ? there has appeared relatively little in the way of competent reflection of Ayn Rand as...
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Avant Garde Heavily Influenced
3,538 wordsIt is a hard task to pinpoint who and what inspired Paul Rand in his groundbreaking design. It is a much easier task however, to tell who was inspired by him. He must not only be remembered as the man who revolutionized our visual language, but also as the man who laid the groundwork for other art directors and designers to continue modernizing the field. Because without the great Paul Rand to learn from, to emulate, even to try to surpass, there would have been no Bill Golden, no Herb Lubalin, ...
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Psychological Egoism Psychological Egoist
2,054 wordsPsychological Egoism: Every Person Is Oriented Towards Psychological Egoism: Every Person Is Oriented Towards His (or Her) Own Welfare, And The Object Of Every One Of His Voluntary Actions Is Some Good To Himself Psychological Egoism: Every Person Is Oriented Towards His (or her) Own Welfare, and The Object of Every One of His Voluntary Actions Is Some Good To Himself Jan Savage Ethics Due 4 / 7 / 97 Psychological egoism is a reflex that every person has to orient themselves toward their own wel...
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