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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science fiction novel, deals with a future primitive society in which the forbidden word "I", which is punishable, has been replaced by "We."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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Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
1,099 wordsIn the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the appro...
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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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Ayn Rand Peter Keating
1,391 words... er is due to carelessness in maintaining his integrity. His business etiquette involve sacrificing himself and dedicating his whole lifes work as a service to the people, for the people. He suppresses the outcries of his conscience, acting only on the behalf of strengthening public relations and obtaining higher profits. The man owns his fortune, but he did not own himself. The public mob lay claim to his existence. His fortune is a mere donation from the public in return for the service tha...
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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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Ayn Rand Her Life And Philosophy
913 wordsAyn Rand was a novelist and philosopher who influenced many peoples way of thinking in very profound ways. She was born in Russia in 1905 and came to America at the age of twenty-one where she published her first novel, We The Living, in 1936. The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and brought Ayn Rand international fame. Although she considered herself primarily a fiction writer, she realized that in order to create heroic fictional characters, she had to identify the philosophic principles whi...
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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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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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Itchy And Scratchy One Of The Most Important
4,142 wordsThe American animation The Simpsons is now in its 10 th season as a show in its own right. It was created by Matt Groening as shorts for the Tracy Ullman Show and was bought by the Fox Network, which began screening it as half-hour shows in 1989. Initially its success was restricted to the 9 - 16 year old age group, and for animation there is nothing remarkable about this. Its success grew quickly and it is now popular in many countries with many different audiences. In the 1990 s we are seeing ...
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Ayn Rand York Alfred
1,204 wordsCommunism has failed in Europe because of its lack of care for the individual, its corrupt leaders and also because it went against human nature. Two novels that demonstrate this statement are the semi-autobiographical We the Living by Ayn Rand, and Julian Barnes The Porcupine. According to Ayn Rand, Communists were pitiless. When Kira, the protagonist of the story, begged for help to save her lovers life, the only answer she received from the general was Why in the face of the Union of Socialis...
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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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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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