Reading the Ayn Rand's address, I could not help but notice how appropriate is as a first reading assignment in this class. Rand's account of being aboard a spaceship when it crashes, surviving, and the questions that ensue seem to be a little like dealing with life from the moment we are born. ...

Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Penguin Books, © renewed 1971. (First published 1943). 697 pages. Plot: Two architects, long-time friends, who choose completely different roads of life, converge as they build their careers. One, named Peter Keating, is a highly acclaimed architect with the firm ...

In Ayn Rand's book, Anthem, Egoism played an extremely big part but wasn't revealed until the end of the book. Ego means "lacking in ones own interests" meaning that you don't do what you like to do and don't have your own feelings. During the book everyone who was living in the ...

In order for a man to have meaning in his life, he must face and overcome many conflicts. Those who do not face these struggles are unable to realize what they are capable of. In Ayn Rand's novel Anthem, the main character Equality 7-2521 battles internal and external conflicts in order to di...