What worries me most about my future? This question is often asked but there’s many answers to it. The books we reviewed are Anthem and Prometheus. We also reviewed Critical Thinking and the Emancipation proclamation. Failure is one of my main worries about my future. First‚ Equality is also scared of failure. An example is on the book Anthem by Ayn Rand in page 43- “Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals‚ and I loathe humanity
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Symbolizes Happiness Prompt: In the final chapter of Anthem‚ Prometheus writes that he now understands “why the best in me had been my sins and my transgressions; and why I had never felt guilt in my sins.” What has Prometheus come to understand about himself? Why does his society regard the “best in him” as sinful? “It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon paper no others see.” “It is a sin write this.” So begins Ayn Rand’s Anthem‚ a dystopian novella convening the life of Equality7-2521
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Mrs. Logic’s Message Six feet was too tall: Equality 7-2521 stood head and shoulders above the crowd and his brothers in society looked down on him because of it. In the novella Anthem‚ author Ayn Rand explores the dangers of a Collectivist society and the freedom that comes with escaping such a place as she chronicles the life of her main character‚ Equality. Part of Rand’s motivation for writing her novella was her desire to further develop the philosophy that she created that is known as Objectivism
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"Babylon Revisited" Context ’’Babylon Revisited’’ is widely considered to be the apex of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories‚ of which there are more than a hundred. Like many of his works‚ ’’Babylon Revisited’’ was loosely based on Fitzgerald’s own life. Fitzgerald was born on September 24‚ 1896 in Saint Paul Minnesota. He was named Francis Scott Key‚ after a distant relative‚ and the writer of the American national anthem. Fitzgerald spent his childhood years in the United States—Buffalo
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Student Name Compare/Contrast Example Essay Period 2/3‚ 12-6-12 Pens vs. Pencils You are in the middle of writing the best story of your life. Every word is rolling out of you with ease; you feel as if nothing could stop this continuous flow of ideas‚ and then snap! That’s the sound of your pencil lead breaking. You get up to sharpen the utensil‚ but find that you have no way of doing so. You get out a small pocket knife and begin frantically whittling the end‚ hoping to see some sign
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Chris and Keyon look into each other’s eyes and nod. Keyon looking into Chris’s green hazelnut eyes and Chris looking into Keyon’s coffee brown eyes. They pulled out their light bronze swords and got ready to battle. The Alfusa‚Hades shadow minions‚ (al-foo-za) advanced surrounding the two boys and attacked. The two boys were overwhelmed and outnumbered‚ but they were cutting the monsters down as fast as they could. Their blades were just a blur of brown. They were parrying‚slashing‚stabbing
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A Comparison and Contrast of the Supernatural’s Active Role in the Lives of Mary Rowlandson and Benjamin Franklin The literature written during this time period reflects the important part the supernatural (God) played during those changing times. The new world was struggling for a new identity. Were these individuals also defining the role of God to themselves? In the preceding discussion the lives of Mary Rowlandson and Benjamin Franklin will be discussed. Each wrote a narrative of their
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In Ayn Rand’s Anthem‚ the protagonist Equality 7-2521 begins the novella as a primitive unique adolescent‚ who has realized that he might be different from those around him. He feels remorse in his differences and attempts to make himself become like the others in his society. But after the discovery of the tunnel‚ however‚ he realizes that loneliness pleases him‚ and it becomes harder for him to deny his own individuality. Rand hoped to uncover the link between the historical figures‚ Prometheus
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A Comparison and Contrast of Love in Christopher Marlowe ’s "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and C. Day Lewis ’s "Song" In the poems "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" by Christopher Marlowe and "Song" by C. Day Lewis‚ the speakers display their individual views of what can be expected with their love. Both speakers produce invitations to love with differences in what they have to offer. A list of promised delights is offered by the speaker in "The Passionate Shepherd‚" and through persuasion
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We use the term classical conditioning to describe one type of associative learning in which there is no contingency between response and reinforcer. This situation resembles most closely the experiment from Pavlov in the 1920s‚ where he trained his dogs to associate a bell ring with a food-reward (Ryle 1995). In such experiments‚ the subject initially shows weak or no response to a conditioned stimulus (CS‚ e.g. the bell)‚ but a measurable unconditioned response (UCR‚ e.g. saliva production) to
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