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In Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem , Rand discusses issues of Individualism and the problems that lie within it. A young man named Equality is curious about the world around him. He battles the society around him and tries to discover his own individuality. He is threatened with death by the society who now despises him. In the end, Equality finds his happiness and justifies that personal happiness is the goal of life. Just like Rand’s Equality trying to rediscover individuality, John Stuart Mill in…

Before this painting he was all but ignored. None of Wood’s other paintings were ever as successful as American Gothic. Soon after he submitted American Gothic into the Art Institute of Chicago for a competition and the painting won the Norman Wait Harris bronze medal. The Institute then purchased the painting for $300. This was Wood’s first big art sell and his first prize for any work he had done. American Gothic was soon being copied in newspapers but Wood received a hostile…

Anthem Not many of the people in the book Anthem’s society have courage to express their individuality or to rebel for their freedom; Equality realizes his identity is important and he needs to respect himself. The world does not define you, you do and you need to let your individuality show and let people be inspired by it. "'Your eyes,' they said, 'are not like the eyes of any among men"'. (Rand 44) This part of the book is telling that The Golden One is noticing that he is different from the…

In Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem, the world she describes has each freedom taken from the characters and all they have is hardship and hard work for all their fellow brothers in the cities. Forced to follow the world council's rules, Equality 7-2521 tries to fit in with his fellow brothers, but when finding a tunnel from the unmentionable times he fails to follow the rules of his brother men and creates a great gift to man before getting run out of the city to the uncharted and unexplored forest. A…

“We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.” On page 19 of Anthem, Ayn Rand informs the readers of a chant or saying that the people of this time have to read to themselves whenever they feel tempted. In the society within the story, the forbidden word was “I”. Nobody was allowed to speak in the first person, they had to refer to themselves as We. The main character, Equality 7-2521, was a little different than the others. He had “a…

The explorer conditioning technique (ECT): Treat a new task as a quest for new discoveries. To be able to perform at your peak, you have to love what you are doing. Whether it’s acting, bartending or washing dishes, you have to learn to love what you do. One way to achieve this is to technically act like any explorer would, which is to be thrilled by something new every day (or treat everything as such even when it’s not new). It should be as if each task you were making were coming…

Entertainment is available in many ways, shapes, and forms in today’s world of technology. Oftentimes we may find that these methods of entertainment are tools for information or even criticism. These criticisms often extend over various forms of media, with the same message being delivered in a different way. This can be seen in Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, which is not only a classic literary novel but also a play. The play version of Lord of the Flies, in which I attended, although…

Landless, Land Entitlement and Collective Violent Resistance to the Mining Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR) in the Developing Country: The Case of Anti-Phulbari Coal Mining Movement in Bangladesh Abstract: My proposed research project will explore the role of landless people in forming collective violent resistance to the Mining Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR) process in the Phulbari Coal Mining project in Bangladesh, and will demonstrate the necessity to identify…

What do people think about when they hear the word politics? To further that, what do they think of when they hear the term polarization? Congress is in a constant battle between parties, and this, in turn, keeps us in an almost constant state of gridlock. Susan Page, Jim Douglas, Brian Resnick, and Norman Ornstein have all written articles explaining political polarization, civil discourse, or the solutions to these problems. In Susan Page’s article “Divided We Now Stand,” she mainly focuses on…

“I shall choose my friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey.” (Rand 96). So says Equality 7-2521 in Ayn Rand’s “Anthem”. Equality lives in a society where every aspect of life is controlled by the leaders of society, even who becomes the next leaders. This society is one that claims to be perfect, it strives to be a utopia, and all of its residents naturally agree and conform to…