John Leonard Orr

The Rules of Collectivism Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, who migrated to the United States in 1926. Ayn Rand used objectivism throughout her novels, which is a philosophical belief that makes one’s individuality look wrong. Ayn Rand told the Soviet authorities that her visit to the United States would be short, but ever since then she never did return to Russia. The most autobiographical of her novels “We the Living”, was based on her years under Soviet tyranny. She published the…

Anthem is a short dystopian novel originally published in 1938 by Russian-American author Ayn Rand. As with many of her stories, in Anthem tries to convince the reader of the importance of individuality and the danger of the collective. It describes a grim future where many of mankind’s scientific advancements have been lost and the concept of the individual is absent. This novella was later adapted for the stage by the director of the Galax High School theater group. Despite bearing many…

Anthem is a brief, tale that takes place in the future in a collectivism world where the “I” has vanished from their language. The novel rotates around Equality 7-2521, Liberty 5-3000, International 4-8818, Fraternity 2-5503, Solidarity 9-6347, Collective 0-0009, and Union 5-3992 where they, along with their society is prohibited from certain things. In the novel, the society they live in is being ran by a communist government. It is being told from the point of view of a man named Equality…

the book-length A Room of One’s Own 1929, its dictum. Woolf severe bouts of mental illness her life committed suicide in 1941 at age of 59. Adeline Virginia Stephen born in Kensington, London. Her parents Leslie Stephen born in British India Dr. John and Maria Pattle Jackson. Was the niece of the photographer Julia Margaret and his cousin the temperance leader Lady Henry Somerset. Julia moved to England, she served…

man who gave us the federal highway act also gave us the precursor to the internet. It was called Arpanet and was developed and funded by Advanced Research Projects Agency which is now Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A man by the name of Leonard Kleinrock was the main architect in the internet’s design, a brilliant man who made several contributions to computer science. The goal was to create a mass communication system that could handle a plethora of data if and when a nuclear war…

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…

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 is a young man who struggles to find ways to show his true self because he lives in a society based on conformity. Ayn Rand uses the symbols of the light bulb, the Uncharted Forest, and his new name to demonstrate the conflict of individuality versus conformity in order to demonstrate the importance of individuality and self-discovery. Thus, through the use of these symbols, Ayn Rand is able to integrate the theme of individuality versus conformity…

currently in operation, 700 of these are college bookstores where students can buy a small selection of what a normal Barnes and Noble retail store would, as well as textbooks from the college and an array of specific college related items. When Leonard Riggio acquired Barnes and Noble, it was one store on a city block in the 1970s and within a few years, he transformed it into what Riggio himself called, “The World’s Largest Bookstore” with more than 150,000 textbooks and trade titles. In 1974,…

John Hammond, a rich philanthropist, funds a project to find dinosaur DNA. Once his workers discover the DNA, they use it to recreate dinosaurs. John Hammond intends to create an amusement park where people can experience living dinosaurs. Although he is certain that the dinosaurs are completely under his control, they escape…

Every night after our dinner my family and I would sit down and watch The Big Bang Theory on television. Those thirty minute airings had my whole living room roaring. We loved how awkward Sheldon was and how Leonard was always chasing pretty Penny. It was not until recently that I have noticed how misogyny is portrayed throughout the show. As I watch the episodes back I still laugh: however, I cannot help but to realize how the women, in particular Penny and Amy, are characterized throughout…