Role Of Culture In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrged

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I chose the topic of culture as typically; I feel that people do not see culture as an important sociological term when in fact it is. This may be due to the fact that people typically do not see their culture until they spot a culture in which is different from their own. Only by achieving this, an individual can see just how significant the role of culture can play in a society.
In terms of gathering sources, I decided to use some sources in which I already knew a bit about such as Ayn Rand’s Atlas shrugged. Then by pulling sources related to the topic at hand from resources I already analyzed and read, I was able to find resources that related to culture in some way, such as culture and politics and culture and religion.

In regards to the most valuable sources, I would say although I wouldn’t consider Atlas shrugged to be the most informative of culture out of my resources, I would say it would be the most valuable as I based a lot of concepts in my writing based on what happened in the book. Some examples of this would be that there are two readily apparent sides in which one is obviously good and one bad, one is a good working culture and one a dystopia etc. Though utilization of certain key points of Atlas Shrugged I pretty created a story similar to Ayn Rand’s novel although they are certainly not the same thing.
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When I started this I was so confused about how to express the concept of culture in the characters and given that I wrote in first person, that did not make it any easier. I worked through this by looking at the sample paper and giving a brief overview of culture so the reader would understand what exactly I was attempting to do in my

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