Ayn Rand

fundamental ideology of America. To many, these rights are easily taken for granted. But pause, take a minute, envision a City in which the citizens have no rights--void of all individualism--only rights as a collective whole. This is the premise of Ayn Rand’s Anthem. In this dystopian novella, the collective will of The City is valued over that of each citizen. This communist-like state theoretically sounds perfect on paper. After all, everyone is equal, and has a purpose--to serve this…

Should We Celebrate Columbus Day? Here’s what i think ..No, I disagree that we shouldn’t celebrate Columbus Day..Why? Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and discovered America, there is more to the story of the explorer we celebrate with a federal holiday on the secind Monday of every October.As historians have continued to learn and write more about the the real life of Christopher Columbus, controversy has arisen over the vadlidity of honoring the explorer as a hero.Like…

By definition, “public good” is a commodity that is provided without benefit to ALL members of a society either by government, a private individual, or an organization. Hank Rearden proudly says, “The public good be damned. I will have no part of it!” (445) This profound statement brought the courtroom to an uproar of cheer and applause, leaving Hank just as startled as the three judges before him. His statement was bold. His statement set him apart from a great number of business men such as,…

The story of Robin Hood could be used as a metaphor for the message of Atlas Shrugged. Its original form is the story of a man, who fights from those who would seek to steal the rightful property of the people, but human perception corrupted its meaning, and it became the story of a man who steals from the wealthy and gives to the needy. To some, this may seem like a minor difference, but it changes the meaning. It shifts the purpose of robin from a defender of property, to a provider for the…

Many people read books about a major event that may never happen, but they do not completely understand how the protagonist is shaped by their surroundings. For Juliette to become the person she is at the end of the story, she must go through challenges, that will teach her the entire truth behind what is really happening. In Shatter Me, Tahereh Mafi uses cultural, physical, and geographical surroundings to shape psychological and moral traits of Juliette as she tries to escape from the grasp of…

“ Anthem” is a book that was made by an author named Ayn Rand. She lived in a society that was similar to a society in the book “ Anthem.” Ayn used to live in a communist country which was Russia.A communist government rules their country similar to a ruler in a dystopian society. The book is based on a collectivist society which is a kind of dystopian society. This kind of society controls everyone or all men and women that live within it. Then the government like the World Council would group…

In Equality's totaltarian society Equality realizes that his individual rights are being suprressed because of his government wanting full control over all of the people. In Anthem, Equality says it's a sin to write this because they can't think for themselves. By the end of the book equality realizes that thee society he is living in is oppressive; moreover, his character changes to the point that he wants individual freedom Equality society is very suprressive and likes to keep everyone on…

for granted. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Ayn Rand’s Anthem the societies are corrupt because there is no individuality and one cannot think for one’s self; which leads John and Equality 7-251 to create new societies. The society in both Brave New World and Anthem are corrupt because the people are unable to be individuals. In Anthem instead of being one individual, everyone makes up the whole society, “We are nothing. Mankind is all.”(Rand 7). No one is given the opportunity to stand…

This situation theory is well and good but how does a leader apply the nebulous nature of virtue to concrete reality, the answer is through the application of servant based objectivism. Objectivism was popularized by author Ayn Rand as a rationalist school. Rand argued that the primary focus of man 's free will is in the choice: 'to think or not to think ' and that through thinking a man could develop understanding of the world as it is though an objective view, this view would drive…

People must make choices every day. Sometimes it is thought to decide, but many time we do not have to think twice about our decisions. The choices we make can be ethical or unethical, right or wrong. Over my lifetime, although I am not too old, I had to make thousands of choices. I am sure I made some unethical choices, choices that only benefited me and choices that benefited the greatest amount of people and resulted in providing the greatest amount of happiness for myself and others. Before…