The Fountainhead

was to create and tell the story of “The Ideal Man.” She fell in love with a character early in her life that she imagined having the qualities of the ideal man. In her novel, “The Fountainhead” Rand claims her leading character Rourke had several of these qualities. Rand soon sold the film rights to “The Fountainhead” and found a financial…

organizations.” This quote from Mr. Obama makes it sound as if we have to stick together as a group in order to make our country better. He says that individual actions and dreams are not enough. While looking at another one of Ayn Rand’s novels, The Fountainhead, it’s easy to see how they justify collectivism in their real world society. In the speech made by Ellsworth Toohey called “The Soul of a Collectivist” collectivism is present in their society. One part of his speech makes a remark…

The Other In “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen describes how particular monsters are symbols of the culture that they arise from. He also provides seven examples explaining to his readers what a “monster” is. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, director Francis Ford Coppola disguises his character, Dracula, as a cultural problem. In his fourth thesis, The Monster Dwells at the Gate of Difference, Cohen explains that the monster is set apart from the culture that it was created in.…

Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional when he was fifteen. He worked in England and then came to New York to work on Broadway. He moved to Hollywood in 1929 and became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. Steiner is referred to as "the father of film music" and is…

"Civil Disobedience" that should be agreed upon; however it must be taken into account the points that are disagreeable. Thoreau states the he thinks the Bible is equal to the Constitution and that people should "continue their pilgrimage toward its fountainhead" of truth. To simplify this, he is saying that the Bible is not the final authority and that we should dig deeper for a more complete truth. A Christian should know that God has the final say and that the Bible "is inspired by God and…

write college papers that will help them pass college classes. In the end students learned how to speak their minds and create their own unique voice. As a class they had to watch a movie called the Dead Poets Society comparing it to the book The Fountainhead. Watching that movie truly taught them how to be unique. When people are asked to write a paper they usually write a half ass paper. While being in ICCC Comp students learned how to properly write and create a paper. Using their brains for…

“Who is John Gault?” Shall this phrase be considered as a figure of speech, or even a rhetorical question? Yet while read on, readers come to realization how the expression has a more simple meaning with the answer; that John Gault is an actual man who plays an important part in the story of Atlas Shrugged. In this book, we get the answer to said question in the beginning of Part 3. Here, a lady named Dagny Taggart crashes her aircraft into Galt’s Gulch of Colorado; and meets John Galt in person…

Karl Marx and Ayn Rand are two of the most recognizable philosophers of the modern era. They both had extremely differing views on how money should be used and what money is good for. Ayn Rand, famous for her books Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, has a strong belief that money is not a force for evil, but a force for good and change. Karl Marx, on the other hand, had a very underhanded view of money and its effectiveness as a motivator. He believed that money could only temporarily…

Food Supply Did you know that 140 billion animals are killed for human consumption ever year? For many people that would be a very shocking number because many people use the psychology “Out of sight, out of mind”. This is something that a lot of individuals use to not be held accountable because for many people if they do not see it then they do not think about it. Often people do not think of how the animals who become their food are treated, who prepares it, or the conditions it was made…

The tactical use of rhetoric in The Flight from Conversation by Sherry Turkle and Faux Friendship by William Deresiewicz is purposefully placed to influence the reader’s opinions with their arguments. Turkle claims that technology use is creating an obstacle for relationships and that increased usage negatively effects casual conversation, while Deresiewicz argues that friendships have evolved over time from being personal to purely emotional with the use of technology. Although their arguments…