Janice Rand

The New True Anthem The New True Anthem by Kevin Gilbert critiques Australian’s lack of patriotism. It alludes to the way the new occupants of Australia have defaced the physical and conceptual value of Australia’s natural beauty and history. Gilbert uses many techniques and ideas to convey his feelings about this matter, including Hyperbole, Imagery and enjambment. These skills and techniques riddle the poem as well as many others. The use of Hyperbole is one of the more prominent techniques…

spanning more than sixty years, Paul Rand sustained an inimitable practice that crossed multiple disciplines without sacrificing his commitment to design with the highest quality and care,” (Palacio). Paul Rand was born in August of 1914 and died November of Cancer in 1996. Rand was a well-known American Graphic Designer best known for the designing of corporate logos. He was educated at The Pratt Institute, The Parsons School of Design, and the Art Students League. Rand was one of the creators…

In life, you need support you can not have a complete life without the support of others. The quote “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main (land)” from the poem Meditation 17. The quote is a metaphor for how every person is special and not one person can do everything right, each person has their own quality or talent that is distinct to them. It compares a complete man to a piece of an island, and how to be complete you need other…

“No man is an island” is a popular proverb used all around the world. It is defined as no one is self sufficient and that everyone relies on one another. Although we are different ethnicities and races, Donne teaches us the idea that we are all connected in many ways. No man can achieve their goals when isolated from others. There’s no place, culture, race or people better than another; we are all united. Donne’s poem gives an interesting insight in the meditation of how we are all connected to…

the end of his journey, he reaches his ultimate goal and finds the word he was searching for the whole time, “I”. In Anthem, Ayn Rand shows the importance of individuality through Equality…

Anthem is a rebellious novella written by a Russian-born American novelist named Ayn Rand. The Novel Anthem is mainly about a young man named Equality 7-2521, who goes against all that he has been taught. Equality discovers information that was being hidden from him by people he had trusted. He identifies himself as “I” instead of “we” standing against all the lies that have been hidden for years. But, by the end of the novel Equality 7-2521 has changed his mind becoming very critical of the…

There are many forms of government used throughout the world and in literature, some better than others. Anthem by Ayn Rand and 1984 by George Orwell are two novels have the same type of government and are similar in how they operate. The governments oppress the people to keep power and control using aspects like relationships and language/thoughts. Tyrannical governments take away individuality and freedom to keep control over society One way that the governments keep control is through…

Anthem by Ayn Rand is a short novel about a young man in an extremely collectivist society. This young man is born with unique qualities that separate him from the majority. Eventually, the young man is forced to escape the city. He goes on to learn what it means to be an individual, and he vows to bring down the broken society. Ayn Rand’s objectivist belief system is based on ideals that are opposite of the city found in Anthem. Objectivism puts individual goals ahead of a group, and it focuses…

Anthem, a fictional novel written by Ayn Rand, depicts the portrayal of collectivism in a strictly totalitarian society. The society based in Anthem differs from the society in the United States because individuality, technology, and education are all uncommonly correlated. Ayn Rand defines Equality 7­2521, the protagonist, as being against his collective society and has him discover the significance of individuality. Rand reveals the fears of collectivism that holds his society back from…

The constant demand for innovation in our American society calls for independence and knowledge. Ayn Rand creates a world that values collectivism, control, and obedience in Anthem. The novel Anthem summarizes Rand’s philosophy on human nature. Although the society in Anthem satirizes the communist government Rand had lived in, today’s society is antithetical to this dystopian world. Ayn Rand wrote Anthem as a satire to the rise of communism and fascism in her time, and thus the government…