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    Have you ever played multiple games and always wondered why most of the have something that references Atlas? Have you Ever wondered who Atlas is? Well in this essay I will explain who Atlas is in Greek Mythology. Atlas was a Titan god of endurance. He was also identified as a god of astronomy because he was the first who instructed mankind in astronomical science which was basically used for navigation and measuring the seasons. It is said, in Library of History by Diodorus Siculus, that he surpassed all others by mastering astrology and was the first to discover spherical nature and therefore being touted as the heaven-bearer. According to Hesiod and Hyginus, Atlas was one of the four sons of Iapetusand oceanid called Clymene but in another…

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    Throughout the lives followed in Atlas Shrugged, each character is portrayed with their own belief system. There is James Taggart who denies reality at all costs by refusing to accept responsibility for anything. There are the “Washington men" ()who poke and prod in political games to obtain outcomes they find favorable. There is Eddie Willers, who does the best he can to make a positive impact. There is Dagny Taggart who invests her soul into the success of her businesses without any…

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    “Who is John Gault?” Shall this phrase be considered as a figure of speech, or even a rhetorical question? Yet while read on, readers come to realization how the expression has a more simple meaning with the answer; that John Gault is an actual man who plays an important part in the story of Atlas Shrugged. In this book, we get the answer to said question in the beginning of Part 3. Here, a lady named Dagny Taggart crashes her aircraft into Galt’s Gulch of Colorado; and meets John Galt in…

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    There has been many philosophies and ideas of how men can coexist harmoniously with equal resources, economic means, and political status, as in our fantasized world of Utopia. However, when those “ideas” are endeavored, why does the guinea pig dissolve into chaos that results into nothingness? In the novel, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand takes the readers into a dystopian United States and explores the central stations of Objectivism into its third-dimension. Well, what is objectivism? Objectivism is…

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    In Atlas Shrugged, many individuals of ability faced obstacles that threatened to destroy everything they stood for. John Galt gave them a way to live their lives without those obstacles. Ragnar Danneskjöld was one of John Galt’s close friends making him one of the first to hear John’s plan to take the world back from the looters. Danneskjöld said to Hank Rearden that he loved that which had rarely been loved, namely, human ability. When he said this, he meant that many individuals in the book…

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    Throughout the novel Atlas Shrugged, written by Ayn Rand in 1957, one rhetorical question is proposed on multiple occasions. In a world where businesses are failing at every turn, this question serves to embody the very essence of the hopelessness and the defenselessness of an entire nation, as well as their utter loss of human spirit. This question, however, appears to be so simple on the surface, seeming to seek the identity of a mystery man. It is asked by homeless men, businessmen and diner…

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    first day of atlas is the most exciting. You meet new people, talk and do team building exercises. I realized that as we were sitting there in a group talking I knew it was the right place for me. The moment the atlas instructor told us we were going to do an exercise with a ball and we had to have it go to everyone's hands. As we tried many way to get it we finally realized how to do it in two seconds, but as i looked around before the ball got dropped through our hands I looked at all the…

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    The book I chose for this project was Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I am going to talk about the first three sections not the whole book, since it is a long book and it jumps around so much it would take a lot longer to talk about. This book is a hybrid of fiction and drama. The first section of the book is “The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing” it is a journal written in the mid 1800s by a sailor stuck on an island while the ship he was on gets repaired. The journal has a total of fifteen entries…

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    While The Fountainhead provides an insight to Rand’s perspective regarding individualism, Atlas Shrugged is the novel where she defined her school of Objectivism which holds individualism as one of its major tenets. Individualism is the driving force which keeps the intellectuals of Atlas Shrugged committed to making their ideas work for them rather than being drawn into a system of collectivism which effectively destroys their progress and spreads it equally across the masses. The two main…

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    code they have can not produce themselves. It is he, as well as all the other producers in Atlas Shrugged, that allow the looter’s to spread their Morality of Death. (mooching) Guilt is sometimes used by the collectivists in order for the producers to give out of pity. If the producers do not give to them, they are damned fiercely; being labeled as greedy, selfish, egotistical, and heartless. Rearden is confronted by this constantly as his family demands he give them more affection. his…

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