Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged In the society created by Ayn Rand in her novel Atlas Shrugged‚ the unmotivated feed off of the desire of the purposeful‚ politicians destroy success in an attempt to gain it‚ and entitlement is an epidemic. Dagny Taggart is the Vice-President of Operations of Taggart Transcontinental‚ her family railroad empire. Her brother‚ Jim‚ fills the role of President. The country is slipping into economic turmoil‚ and the state of the railroad is following suit. Jim and his fellow
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The novel Atlas Shrugged‚ set in a dystopian United States at an unspecified time‚ by Ayn Rand dramatically expresses the philosophical value like ethical egoism of the author‚ since he himself developed a philosophical system‚ Objectivism‚ and other concept like sanction of the victim‚ and other values regarding to government and business‚ property rights and individualism‚ and theory of sex. The story is surrounded a railroad company and its operators‚ the Taggarts‚ and the two main characters
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this ideal. Participants are not free to pursue their self-interest because the government usually overrides your decision to achieve "public interest". This fault lies not in the people but in the immoral system in which they had to act. Atlas Shrugged is a story about a future world in which the entire globe‚ with the exception of America‚ has fallen under the rule of various "People ’s States" or dictatorships. America‚ the only country that is not yet fully socialized‚ is sliding rapidly
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The Myth of Atlas Act 1: Atlas and Hercules Narrator: After the Olympians won the war against the Titans‚ Zeus punished Atlas‚ who was one of the Titans‚ to hold up the heavens for eternity. Atlas was also likely the father or grandfather of the Hesperides‚ who were responsible for guarding a tree that bore apples of gold. Hercules needed to acquire some of these golden apples for a task he was given‚ so he went to atlas to ask for his assistance. Hercules: Mighty Atlas‚ would you fetch
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Motors and specialization in Atlas Shrugged are today’s topics. I’ve never really stop to question why Rand chose to make the Taggart Company a railroad company. It could have been a bread company‚ a phone company‚ or even a chair company. The reason why she chose the Taggart transcontinental and its trains is to use it to symbolize societal progression‚ that idea of moving forwards with the motor/engines leading and driving the charge. These motors refer to those who have passion for a specific
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Atlas In Greek Mythology‚ the Titans were a race of giants. Atlas was the strongest of all the titans. His father was titan Iapetus and his mother was the Sea Nymph Clymene. His brothers were Prometheus and Cronus. Atlas was the father of the Hesperides (Daughters of the Evening‚) the Hyades‚ and the Pleiades. He was also the king of the legendary Atlantis. In etymology Atlas means “bearer” or “endurer.” An image of Atlas is a person with the world on his back
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Her ideas have been lauded in the Wall Street Journal and Fox News‚ and like many things these days‚ has had her ideas bent to meet certain political agendas. Much like Lenin used the ideas of Marx and Engels‚ the political right has used Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead to push for their version of what America should be. The specific quote by Ayn Rand which states‚ “The proper method of judging when or whether one should help another person is by reference to one’s own rational self-interest
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Rand’s novels lend us an insight into her unique philosophy of Objectivism. Her novels expound the concept of unity and integration of the mind and the body. Defying all set standards‚ Rand creates her ultimate heroes who follow their free will rather than conform to the accepted norms and moral codes set by society and religion. Rand’s philosophy suggests that the mind and body of an individual is inseparable and any individual who tries to separate the two‚ ends up suffering both mentally and physically
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Industry and Business Strategy Now I assume the position of business development of B2B online marketing in the Compressor Technology Service Division of Atlas Copco China. Atlas Copco is an industrial group with world-leading positions in compressors‚ expanders and air treatment systems‚ hydraulic breakers‚ road equipment‚ portable compressors‚ generators‚ mining equipment‚ power tools and assembly systems. The company
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The Fountainhead novel‚ movie by Ayn Rand‚ she represents her concerns with the rights of the individual over the demands of society and expounds her belief that genius entitles the superior man to ignore moral and ethical restrictions. However‚ the fountainhead takes place in the United States‚ mostly in New York city during the 1920s and 1930s‚ it describes the lives of two classmates Peter Keating and Howard Roark. Howard Roark who is a fiercely independent innovative architect struggling
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