Ayn Rand Institute

In today’s world everyone has the freedom to be what they want to. Everyone has their own identity. Identity is a person’s conception and expression of their own. The theme of identity is presented in many books/novels and in many pieces of literature. And also it is a way the reader can intrigue themselves and relate to the character. It is useful in helping readers understand the character’s state of mind. In the novel Anthem, Equality is a strong, tall, fearless, brilliant, young person. He…

quote, “International 4-8818 and we are friends. This is an evil thing to say, for it is a transgression, the great Transgression of Preference, to love any among men better than the others, since we must love all men and all men are our friends” (Rand 30). This shows that the residents are supposed to love each other all the same and show loyalty to one-another. It also implies that the society expects their residents to be loyal to that rule. Through the quote that states, “The will of the…

have in life; Well, that's exactly how the dystopia world in " Anthem " by Ayn Rand was for men and women. Men are not allowed to decide on what they wanted in life or talk to anyone else who wasn't in the same class as you. Leaders would discipline or even torture someone when they did anything that involved individualism. Dystopian leader thought it was a sin to try to be higher than what you are assigned to be. Ayn Rand wrote about her Dystopia and Utopia world where a young man who goes by…

It all started in the black hole. Equality 7-2521 discovered the astonishing old iron grill top and realized he had to explore the world underneath. During his exploration, Equality found himself breaking the rules. He thought up and created a box, nothing really special. Equality made the box itself special once he realized his invention could impact the world, but he kept the amazing creation to himself, knowing no one would believe that a street sweeper could be an inventor.…

(Central Themes in Chapter One: The Theme, of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged) The world is viewed by many to be a great resource for wealth, happiness, and survival. Pessimistic and optimistic lenses blur the subjective understanding of how the physical planet and humans interact. All will say sacrifices must be made to reach progress, but the priority of what can and what cannot be sacrificed is a deep and polar divide between many groups of people. Ayn Rand is known for her radical works, in which…

compelled to do tasks that their peers have completed. That feeling is caused by a phenomenon known as the bandwagon effect. The bandwagon effect is when one accepts an idea because other people do. Concepts such as the bandwagon effect are explored in Ayn Rand’s Anthem. In the novella, there is a collectivist society that believes more in the importance of the group instead of the individual. Everyone in the society has the same beliefs and follows the same rules due to the bandwagon effect.…

Born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum to a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia, Ayn Rand was surrounded by pogroms aimed at the Jewish and anti- semitism increased after the assassination of Tzar Alexander II in 1881. There were two younger sisters in her family: Natalia, known as Natasha, and Elanora, known as Nora. Her mother was Anna Borisovna née Kaplan and they had a mutual dislike of each other as Rand thought she was a social climbing, unprincipled conformist and Borisovna thought her daughter did…

self-efficacy, and the impact of self-efficacy on classroom management. The literature on teacher self-efficacy and classroom management documents a clear progression of research in the area of measuring teacher self-efficacy. This research begins with the Rand Corporation Study of 1976, and progresses through…

was noted for austere photographs of flowers, celebrities, and male nudes; among the latter were some that proved controversial because of their explicitly homoerotic and sadomasochistic themes” (Robert Mapplethorpe). In 1960s he attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn; he studied painting, drawing, and sculpture. People stated to recognize him by his mixed media collages that he done in the late 1960s which incorporated magazine pictures of nudes. After he got recognition he bought a Polaroid…

should raise it. The United States Department of Labor says the raising the minimum wage will be good for the economy and also good for business (Minimum Wage Mythbusters). However some people think raising the minimum wage will be bad. The CATO Institute, in their Four Reasons Not to Raise the Minimum Wage article, bring up the points that raising minimum wage would, “result in job loss…, hurt low-skilled workers…, and higher prices for consumers” (Four Reasons Not to Raise the Minimum Wage).…