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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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Ayn Rand Intense Emotion
1,157 wordsAnthem, a science fiction novel, deals with a future primitive society in which the forbidden word "I", which is punishable, has been replaced by "We." Anthem's theme seems to be about the meaning and glory of man's ego. In this novel, Rand shows that the individualism needed for building a complex technological civilization has been suppressed by collectivism. Rand glorifies man's individual ability to think, and appeals to emotion. The emotion is displayed at various time throughout the story;...
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Word Choice Thirty Days
1,212 wordsThe book Anthem is a book about a world full of mindless people. They let the government control their every action from birth to death. The weirdest thing is how they actually seem to enjoy that lack of control. One young man named Equality 7 - 2521, however, starts to feel theres something wrong with his life. Unfortunately, because of his life as a mindless drone, he is virtually unable to express how he feels. The small parts he does understand are crowded with phrases like for the good of a...
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Always True To The Star Spangled Banner
467 wordsAlways True to the "Star-Spangled Banner" The "Star-Spangled Banner" means a lot to the American people. It represents the hardships and victories that we as Americans have prevailed against. This song perfectly depicts the challenge of the American Revolution. This war was fought between Great Britain and the North American Colonies, it took place in the years 1775 - 1783, and is the reason why the North American Colonies won their Independence. I don't know one person that dislikes our nations...
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German Workers Party Adolf Hitler
1,561 wordsOn the evening of April 20, 1889, at 6: 30 p. m. , the screams of one of lifes most precious things was born. A boy, but not just any boy. This fair skinned child with loving parent, would one day become one of the most feared men ever to walk the earth. This mans name was Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Among, just across the border from German Bavaria. He was born into a poor family with an embarrassing past. This past would prove to be a lifelong e...
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Fear And Ignorance Ayn Rand Equality
700 wordsSubj: sorry bout the color and spacing Date: 3 / 5 / 01 10: 33: 55 PM Eastern Standard Time Fear. It oozes from the hearts of every character in Ayn Rands Anthem. It is a fear comparative to that of the thousands of slaves kept by a single master, or the millions in concentration camps that were maintained by a measly hundred or thousand. It is the the fear to rebel against an already accepted fate. Once this fear is instilled, it condemns generation after generation, and unless it is stopped it...
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O Henry Madison Square
1,552 wordsAfter Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe, William Sydney Porter (known as O Henry) is the most read author in the world and bears the title of master of the short story. He has been called many things. Some people have called him the twentieth-century Balzac. Some have called him the American Maupassant because of his so well made surprising endings. The short story is the one fundamental and self-contained genre in American prose fiction, and the stories of O. Henry certainly made their appearance ...
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O Henry Short Stories
1,451 words... e literary device irony is utilized. Irony is an amusing or surprising contradiction. It is a difference between what is expected and what ends up taking place. In "The Cop and the Anthem" Soapy tries to get arrested by taking a silk umbrella from a man. However, the man just thought Soapy was its rightful owner because he had found it earlier. Also, when Soapy finally decides to get a job and become a decent man when he gets arrested. Also, O. Henry's stories reflect his life. As you can se...
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Ayn Rand One Day
866 wordsIn the novel Anthem, Ayn Rand writes about the future dark ages. Anthem takes place in city of a technologically backwards totalitarian society, where mankind is born in the home of the infants and dies in the home of the useless. Just imagine, being born in to a life of slavery having no freedom, no way self expression, no ego. The city represented slavery. When in the city, Equality had been guilty of many transgressions. He was not like his brothers, he was different he was smarter, healthier...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Second And Third
1,934 words... and the blood that comes gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, The final section of the stanza refers to the younger generation whose fathers and grandfathers had fought in the war. When these children ask for some old war stories then they must not be glorified thus hiding the true horror of war, purely to satisfy their need for some desperate glory. They must be told with truth and the understanding that there can be no glory in war, only immeasurable pain and loss. The three poems ment...
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Ayn Rands Philosophy Ayn Rands Prometheus
753 wordsThroughout weeks of forbidden loneliness in the underground tunnel, Prometheus slowly reinvented the light. His discovery was so gargantuan, that he knew that he had to present it to the Council of Scholars. Once he told his story to the Scholars, Prometheus started realizing his fatal mistake: The World Council rejected his gift of light and now he had to face the consequences. The Councils rejection consisted of a few steps. Harmony 9 - 2642 asserted that it would have brought ruin to the Depa...
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Book Was Written Brave New World
2,848 wordsLiterary Devices in 20 th Century Literature After WWII and during the beginning of the Cold War, much was thought and much was said about government and about the contemporary culture in general. This is reflected in many of the literary works of the time, and even before that time, as many of the Marxist and socialist principles were well known. Some of the works include symbolism, some include metaphors, some include satire, and some have other methods. Regardless on which device is used, the...
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Feet Tall Six Feet
1,305 wordsFrom the day that Equality 7 - 2521 were united as one they have been considered freaks, because they were all about six feet tall and looked down upon by the other groups within the society. After their schooling, Equality 7 - 2521 were sent to the 'Home of the Street Sweepers' and there they were assigned a certain sector of the city to keep clean. They were probably made street sweepers because they were abnormally tall which says a lot about the society's views about discrimination. There is...
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Feet Tall Six Feet
350 wordshimself from the collectivist world that he lives in. His victory was possible by breaking a lot of the rules. He realized from the beginning that he wasn't like all the other children at the home of the infants and at the home of the students. When he became a street sweeper, he was so sad. He wanted to progress and become smarter at the home of the scholars, but since he was different he was not sent there. Prometheus knows he is different. It is made aware to him in the home of the infants. I...
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What The National Anthem Means To Me
435 wordsWhat the National Anthem Means to Me The National Anthem of America is more just the favorite song of millions of people. It is a symbol of the whole nation. It represents the unity of the Americans, as a great nationality and state. It means to me so much, that it is difficult to express by words, the feeling that needs no explanation to real Americans, because it is inside every citizen in our country and can be easily understand by every one when he or she songs or heard it. The Anthem symbol...
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Anti Americanism National Pride
1,422 wordsActually, this isnt true for me, as I was born in Southfield Michigan, on the tenth day of September in 1983, and I have an American birth certificate. TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, I AM... (cough cough) American, but being proud to live in this great country, and having been brought up as a true, red-blooded Canadian gal, I am not so quick to admit this minor detail to the masses. So then what does it mean to be a Canadian, if you dont even have to be born in the country to make claim to the name? This...
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Star Spangled Banner War Of 1812
1,770 wordsThere are many American patriotic symbols (icons) that represent the better things we love most about our country. The Star Spangled Banner, Uncle Sam, The Pledge of Allegiance, the American Flag and the Statue of Liberty, to name just a few. These symbols of democracy each have a story of their own. The Star Spangled Banner is our national anthem. It was originally a poem written by Francis Scott Key, a Georgetown lawyer, during the War of 1812. After an attack on Washington, Key heard the Brit...
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Buy And Sell Ayn Rand
688 wordsYou do not have to be a true objectivist Objectivism holds that society functions best when individuals pursue their self-interests. According to Ayn Rand, human understanding and acceptance of reality form the basis of judgment and values. Human beings must live for themselves, neither sacrificing any part of their natures or goals to other people, nor bending others wills to their own. In this scheme, love is achieved fully only by those individuals who possess the highest self-esteem, which i...
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Political Correctness Politically Correct
654 wordsReport: Politically correct is such an innocent term. How can anyone be against something so friendly, something that is supposed to encourage harmony and peace between all people? My answer is Ha! Although I do agree that kindness, respect, and courtesy in our everyday life are to be promoted, it seems to me that they lose much of their meaning if they are oppressively forced upon us by political correctness. That is why there are no examples in modern times that are quite so hopeless to me as ...
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B C D Wilfred Owen
971 wordsWar War Poetry Poetry Assignment War Poetry A popular theme for poets in the last century was war. Many famous poems were written about the two world wars, as well as the Korean and Vietnam wars. For my report I have chosen six poems, three by Wilfred Owen and three by Australian poets. Anthem for Doomed Youth, The Send Off and Insensibility (1) were written by Owen during the first world war to express his anti-war attitude. Beach Burial by Kenneth Slessor, Homecoming by Bruce Dawe and Letter X...
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