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    RE: Ingersoll Rand Credit Write-up Operating Environment Industry: Industrial goods - diversified machinery (Residential and commercial). Provides products‚ services and solutions to enhance the quality of air and security in homes and buildings‚ climate control and refrigeration along with Industrial technologies that help companies enhance energy efficiency‚ productivity and operations. Industry drivers: Economic expansion‚ new innovative solutions. Industry outlook: Neutral with moderate

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    In Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem‚ takes place in a dystopian society where every man lives for mankind‚ not for himself. Equality has always challenged the rules of the society. He writes down what he is feeling‚ what he has discovered‚ and what has happened that day. In this society it is considered a sin to do these things. However‚ Equality believes that his actions are not to be considered sins. Equality’s eventual assessment of his sin is correct because by the end of the book he has more experience

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    that held him back. Equality started to care more about himself than the laws. This show in this quote “Never‚ not in the memory of the Ancient Ones’ Ancient‚ never have men done that which we are doing. And yet there is no shame in us and regret.”‚ (Rand 37). This shows that even though he broke the law‚ he does not care because he felt that it helped him. Even though it was wrong he continued to do it because he cared more for his knowledge than the one of his society. After he committed that crime

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    Ayn Rand starts her book‚ Anthem‚ by writing “It is a sin to write this”(pg.1) She states that “It’s a sin to think of words no others think and to put them down upon paper no others are to see”.(pg.1) However Equality 7-2521 thinks otherwise; He has a different moral assessment of his work. Equality 7-2521 is like no other he‚ is his own person‚ likes to explore beyond what is known‚ and he is confident in doing what is best for the people of his community. Equality is a great and wise person in

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    “It is a sin to write this” (1)‚ begins Equality 7-2521 in the novel Anthem‚ as he refers to the act of simply writing to the reader of the book. Equality is told all his life that there is no one person‚ only the group‚ he was never introduced the word “I’ for he knows only of “we”. With that being said‚ he was also told that it is against the law to be thought of as one single person thinking his or her own thoughts‚ that it is against the law to have your own ideas or opinions because thinking

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    Dying in your 40’s. Relying on candles. Manual Labor for everything. This is the reality of Anthem. Almost all technological advancements were lost during a time we cannot mention. After these times‚ there has been an effort to keep them at bay and eradicate all evidence of its existence in order to keep the society in control. Anthem’s technological primitiveness is due to the fear of the science and technology and its lack of progress is due to the loss of individuality. Inventions are not easily

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    Throughout the book Eldest‚ Eragon can be characterized as naive and adapt. To begin‚ Eragon can be characterized as naive. One example is Eragon’s mindless pursuit of Arya. Eragon says‚ “Arya‚ I’ll do anything to win your hand. I would follow you to the ends of the earth. I would build a palace for you with nothing but my bare hands. I would—” (Paolini‚ 473). This conversation left Arya angry and she clearly does not wish to speak with him any further‚ but Eragon finds her to be cruel‚ proving

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    children work out in factories and fields. Factory owners hired children to work in factories because they were small enough to fit in places that were too tight for a grown adult to fit into and kids were cheaper for factory owners to pay. In the Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem babies are taken away from their birth mothers and put in a home with other children to be raised as a group. In Anthem‚ Equality 72521 talks of where he was raised‚ The Home of Infants‚ and the living conditions he faced.

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    When Paul Rand died at age 82‚ his career had spanned six decades and numerous chapters of design history. His efforts to elevate graphic design from craft to profession began as early as 1932‚ when he was still in his teens. By the early 1940s‚ he had influenced the practice of advertising‚ book‚ magazine‚ and package design. By the late 1940s‚ he had developed a design language based purely on form where once only style and technique prevailed (Heller). Rand did not set out to be a radical

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    “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down on paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we are speaking alone to no ears but our own” (1). In Ayn Rand’s Anthem‚ all men are known as the great WE. They live in a collectivist society in which individualism‚ along with other Transgressions‚ are sins and are punishable. Equality 7-2521 is born into this society‚ and was taught that being different is a crime‚ and he shall be as all men

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