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    In “Anthem‚” Ayn Rand emphasizes the diction of the novella‚ by using the negatively connotative words to achieve a tone of immorality. For example‚ when Equality is in a tunnel and writing‚ “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil....there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. We have broken the laws”(Rand 17). Also‚ “Strange are the ways of evil. We are false in the faces of

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    In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand the character Equality 7-2521 differs from the people he is surrounded by because he does not want to live his life by rules that are set by the government‚ also he wants to learn about subjects he is interested in. Although it is a sin for street sweepers to learn about anything he has a special gift of understanding his school work although street sweepers are supposed to be unintelligent. In Ayn Rand’s Anthem Equality is different from his brothers because he wants

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    During Adolph Hitler’s speech to thousands of German women at the National Socialist Women’s Organization in Nuremberg in 1934‚ Hitler’s speech highlights how the Nazi vision was to mobilize support amongst Protestant and Catholic German women to have many children to grow army and protect German homeland and suppress the urge to embrace new roles. This was done by convincing them that there is a real danger that Jews caused which eeded to be addressed. Moreover‚ a strong push for traditional patriarchal

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    Critical Analysis of "graduation" Summary: "Graduation" is an excerpt of the autobiographical book‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ written by Maya Angelou. While the book is autobiographical in nature‚ this particular excerpt is much discussed amongst literary circles because of Angelou’s use of both objective and subjective narration. [pic] "Graduation" is an excerpt of the autobiographical book‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ written by Maya Angelou. While the book is autobiographical in

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    of Scholars. When he showed them they all ran from the table that Prometheus placed the box of light bulbs. One member from the World Council of Scholars said “How dare you think that your mind held greater wisdom than the minds of your brothers” (Ayn Rand‚ Anthem‚ page 71). Everyone in this society has to think and act the same. It is a sin to oppose the laws that the World Council

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    Maricar Reyes Instructor: J. Cruz EN100-15 September 25‚ 2010 Essay #2 – Descriptive My Graduation Day The most important day of my life had just happened recently this year. The word graduation means more than a ceremony for me. It means changes in my life‚ to reach a higher stage of my life‚ the time to become a new person‚ the time to grow up‚ time to follow my dreams and separate responsibilities from fun. We have fought the fight‚ and we have overcome‚ and we took our final walk in

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    before a battle in which his army is heavily outnumbered by the French; despite these odds he keeps the morale of his men up with a great speech before the battle. The battle was surely lost before it had started‚ but through the sheer force of will that his speech gave his men they came out victorious in the end. Henry expresses three main points of virtue in his speech that inspire his men. Henry holds a great value for the lives of all his men. He does not discriminate against men based things like

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    the rightness or wrongness of the action does not matter because the individual should only decide on the action that is in their self-interest. Like the ethical egoism theory‚ Ayn Rand‚ a Russian philosopher argued that an individual’s highest moral purpose is the achievement of one’s own happiness. Therefore‚ Ayn Rand agrees that one should always do what will benefit them in the end.

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    head." He meant to say was that people should not let their society take control of how they should live their own lives. People should not be threatened by their own society‚ but they should be themselves instead of mindless puppets of society. Ayn Rand‚ a Russian-born US novelist‚ creates related personalities between Equality‚ from Anthem‚ and Howard Roark‚ from Fountainhead. Both characters are different from the society they live in‚ have a female companion who supports their ways

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    A society in which no individual has the freedom to choose their own path in life is the exact dark society Ayn Rand portrays in the fictional novel‚ Anthem. The society in Anthem is shown to be a perfect place where everything is setup so that the "citizens " remain ignorant to the horrid past and live organized‚ safe lives‚until it is revealed that this is a dystopian society in which individuals have no say in how their life will be lived. Anthem’s society and modern day US society are polar

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