Neil Gaiman

I decided to study about the Apollo Missions. This just seemed very interesting, and so I thought, why not learn more about them? I learned that when the Apollo Missions started it really was about a race between American scientists and officials and the Soviet Union. Russia was on the brink of sending people into space. As far as I understand it, American officials didn’t want America to seem weak and helpless in the face of new technology and discovery. So they formulated NASA and the Apollo…

In the book “Anthem” by Ayn Rand the character Equality lives in a totalitarian society where everyone has equal rights. Everyone in the society is taught that they are equal to their brothers and sisters, that they are to think of everyone as equal and that nobody is better than others.Equality begins to change throughout the book in so that he is gaining an “ego’. Equality soon meets a woman named Liberty. Equality sees her different than the others. He begins to have feelings and begins to…

Have you ever felt controlled by someone? Equality 7-2521 and his brothers have felt controlled by the government of their society. In Ayn Rand's Novel, Anthem, the individual does not have very much power. The individual is not allowed to express himself, and is punished on account of expression, which is why the individual lacks potential and capability. First, Expression is not allowed which is one of the reason that the individual falls short when it comes to power. Equality 7-2521 is…

The first quote I chose was, “I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint.” This quote is when Nick is explaining his house and talks about how he has books on the shelves on investments and other things. He says that they stood there like new money from the mint. The reason this is, is because he wishes to become rich on his own and make more money by himself. It also explains to us that he is…

In the book Anthem, by Ayn Rand, everyone is supposedly equal. Life is the same for everyone on a day to day basis. This book is about life in a dystopian society, and the life of Equality 7- 2521. Equality is one of many and is seen just as equal as everybody else. He soon realizes that he wants to learn new things and wants to be different. Once he discovers a tunnel and electricity, he keeps it to himself until he shares the information with the world council of scholars. After they reject…

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality renounce his relationships, reputation, and citizenship in order to achieve wisdom, freedom, and individuality. His determination illustrated that immense sacrifice is necessary to stand up for individual beliefs and to attain happiness. When he left his community, Equality gave up his friendly relations. Left behind were those that he worked with such as International, one of Equality’s best friends, and Union, who was familiar to Equality even though…

Between being the 152nd human to visit space and being the representative for his electoral district for over 5 years, Marc Garneau has had a decorated life. Two dates were extremely important in Marc Garneau’s life: October 5th 1984 and October 19th 2007. The first, the day he went into space onboard of the American space shuttle Challenger and the second, the day he became the official candidate for the Canadian Liberal Party in the district of Westmount—Ville-Marie. Mr. Garneau once stated…

The song, “Viva la Vida”, by the British band Coldplay represents the beginning of the story, Anthem, by Ayn Rand and protagonist Equality 7-2521’s hopes to become a Scholar and the misery he faces with being chosen as a Street Sweeper. In the song, Equality says that everyone is else is equal besides “we, Equality 7-2521, who were born with a curse” (20). By aspiring to become a Scholar when he is fifteen, this future rebel desires to break his sui generis curse and start a new life. He…

Anthem In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand, the protagonist Equality is far from similar to his fellow brothers. The society in this setting wants everyone to believe that being the least bit divergent, the least bit uncommon is shameful. Throughout the novel Equality takes notice of the differences from him and his peers. At the Home of the Students Equality stood out for being too tall, too smart, asking to many questions, and daring to get into fights with his brothers. Equality could not…

Ayn Rand had written a story called Anthem as her way to warn that depending on others will be our downfall, but I disagree. Her ethical egoism outlooks on life is what drives her to believe that man should be self reliant, using others makes you a “looter,” and accusing conservatives of being, “Futile, impotent, and culturally dead,” (Ayn Rand’s Long Journey to the Heart of American Politics, paragraph 7). This idea is, to me, flawed because this country and it’s developments have come from…