Leonard Pitts

The famous story “Anthem” written by Ayn Rand and the true stories of North Korea really have great similarities but also have big differences. Both governments have a strange way of controlling their people,disciplining and also rewarding them for their good and the bad. Plus their branches of government are a little different from the U.S and other countries. These countries, both show a little of selfishness a no care for the people whatsoever besides profiting off of them in different ways.…

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…

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…

BIG TIME RUSH Big Time Rush is an American television series that originally aired on Nickelodeon from November 28, 2009 until July 25, 2013. It was created by Scott Fellows (also the creator of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and Johnny Test and the head writer of The Fairly OddParents).[1] It focuses on the Hollywood misadventures of four Hockey players from Minnesota: Kendall Knight, James Diamond, Carlos Garcia, and Logan Mitchell, after they are selected to form a boy band by…

Rhetorical analysis of “The Death of the Moth” by Virginia Woolf “Where there’s life, death is inevitable and the greater fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living”, an idea well represented in Virginia Woolf’s “The death of a moth” (Mo Yan Quotes). In Woolf’s book, she describes a moths struggle to hang on to its life before accepting its fate and allowing death to take its last breath away. The longer the moth tried to stay alive, the more it endured. The cycle of life is…

Theodore Roosevelt is quoted saying “Believe you can and you're halfway there.” (“Theodore Roosevelt”) Theodore Roosevelt was a man who believed. He believed America would win the war. That was half the battle. Teddy went one step further to ensuring the victory. He went to the Spanish holdings such as San Juan and Kettle Hills and fought for American victory. Teddy created a legacy that will last for years to come. The tough decisions he made in his life ensured that he would become one of the…

Battle of San Juan Hill was the engagement between the United States and Spain that concluded the Spanish colonial control. The most acclaimed unit that was in Cuba at the time was the “Rough Riders”. Led by Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt and Colonel Leonard Wood. The Rough Riders were camped along the Santiago Road in Cuba during the first day of July of 1898 getting ready for battle. The Battle of San Juan Hill was a pivotal battle for both antagonist. Teddy’s “Rough Riders” was a volunteer…

thought for what may or may not be a bit “too much” extraction. Next is the production stage and this hurts both the environment and people because toxins are being released into the air from the factories that create our possessions. According to Leonard, “In July 2009, we reached 387.81 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Leading scientists around the world have identified 350 ppm as maximum level that the atmosphere can contain for the planet to remain as we…