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Ayn Rand
-Rand met her husband, Frank O’Connor, on her second week in Hollywood. They were married for 50 years, right up until his death. -The Fountainhead was rejected by twelve publishers before finally being picked up in 1935. It has since sold over six million copies—about 100,000 a year. -Rand was born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum in 1905, into a middle-class family living in Saint Petersburg. She was the eldest of the three daughters of Zinovy Zacharovich Rosenbaum and Anna Borisovna Rosenbaum
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Aynn Rand
* The Fountainhead (1943) * Atlas Shrugged (1957)
Objectivism- One of several doctrines holding that all reality is objective and external to the mind and that knowledge is reliably based on observed objects and events. Collectivism-the political principle of centralized social and economic control, esp. of all means of production. Communism-a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. Egoism-the habit of valuing everything only in reference to one's personal interest; selfishnes
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Altruism- the principle or practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others Conformity-action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
Anthem is a Dystopia:a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding..
In Greek mythology Prometheus is the Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from the gods in the stalk of a fennel plant and giving it to mortals for their use.
Gaea is the Goddess of Earth. Daughter of Khaos.
There was a major conflict with the catholic church. They reportedly did not think the time was right to allow people to believe that the world was not the center of the universe, as was implied by the bible.
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