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Things in Atlas Shrugged - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia See also Places in Atlas Shrugged and Characters in Atlas Shrugged and the Atlas Shrugged Wikibook. The Anti-dog-eat-dog Rule is passed by the National Alliance of Railroads in section 145, allegedly to prevent "destructive competition" between railroads. Nicknamed "Galt's Gulch" by its inhabitants, it is in fact the property of "Midas" Mulligan, one of the early strikers to follow John Galt's call. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Things_in_Atlas_Shrugged   (2096 words)

Atlas Shrugged Atlas Shrugged is easily one of the best, most fascinating books I've ever read which is surprising considering I don't think there's more then one character in the entire novel I really liked. In Atlas Shrugged all of the world's capitalist, entrepreneurs and creative thinkers withdraw from civilization to form their own libertarian society because of their coldly fanatical belief that altruism is a bad thing only implemented by wooly headed liberals who care more about theories then about people. Atlas Shrugged's characters were another of the book's redeeming features though Dagny was the only one I liked since she was the only one who seemed able to combine some sense of altruism with the attributes of a tough, uncompromising business person. www.geocities.com /roar822/Books/atlasshrugged.html   (520 words)

Atlas Shrugged/Synopsis/Chapters 1-5 - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks He believes they are expressing the same concerns that he feels, but only in a different way, and that he is morally required to tolerate them because they are weaker than he is. This is the first glimpse of the Sanction of the Victim, which is a central concept of Atlas Shrugged. In later years Dagny would discover her vision of the future was mistaken in the same way, and she would often think back to this party and wonder why people seemed incapable of living life in joy, why they lived instead with a constant undertone of fear and unhappiness. He regained his composture and warned her not to be shocked or hurt by the things he will do, and told her not to wait for him. en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Synopsis_of_Atlas_Shrugged,_Chapters_1-5   (4654 words)

SparkNotes: Atlas Shrugged: Themes, Motifs & Symbols Wyatt’s Torch is the very last thing the passengers see before dying in the Taggart Tunnel disaster and the only part of the outside world visible to the residents of the valley. Atlas, the hero of Greek mythology who carried the weight of the heavens on his shoulders, symbolizes the exploited industrialists, particularly Rearden, whose hard work and great strength support the parasites who live off their productive capabilities. When Francisco tells Rearden that he would advise Atlas to shrug and let go of his burden, he is referring to the strike and calling upon Rearden to lay down his burden and stop believing it is his duty to bear so much weight for the undeserving. www.sparknotes.com /lit/atlasshrugged/themes.html   (1387 words)

Amazon.ca: Atlas Shrugged: Books: Ayn Rand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) * Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Atlas Shrugged is timeless, because the questions she asks 50 years ago can still be asked today. For one thing, how she portrays her ideals in her characters incur wrath in a number of her readers (i've read a lot of disapproving reviews), but there are still some of her loyal fans (like me) who will continue to stick by her morals. www.amazon.ca /Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191145   (2332 words)

Scandals lead execs to 'Atlas Shrugged' and an introduction to Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged is not meant as a pulitzer prize winning piece of fiction, it is meant as a culminating representation of Ayn Rand's ideals. Atlas Shrugged reads like a mystery that takes readers from a steel mill to high society and includes a strong female character in Dagny Taggart, a top executive ahead of her time. Atlas Shrugged devotees say America's wealth builders will never go on strike the way Rand described, but they say a quasistrike is underway. www.matus1976.com /articles/atlas_shrugged.htm   (3597 words)

Atlas Shrugged Re-Examined - Issues Section In Atlas Shrugged, all this debased inhuman riffraff is lumped as "looters." This is a fairly inspired epithet It enables the author to skewer on one invective word everything and everybody that she fears and hates. This spares her the plaguy business of performing one service that her fiction might have performed, namely: that of examining in human depth how so feeble a lot came to exist at all, let alone be powerful enough to be worth hating and fearing. From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: "To a gas chamber-go!" The same inflexibly self-righteous stance results, too (in the total absence of any saving humor), in odd extravagances of inflection and gesture that Dollar Sign, for example. www.bulldognews.net /issues_atlas_shrugged.html   (2403 words)

technology in atlas shrugged - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged mentions a variety of technological products and devices. Finally, Dagny Taggart places an order for Rearden Metal when she needs rails to rebuild the dying Rio Norte Line. The first thing made from Rearden metal is a bracelet. www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/technology-in-atlas-shrugged   (339 words)

Penguin Reading Guides | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged (1957) is a mystery story, Ayn Rand once commented, "not about the murder of man’s body, but about the murder—and rebirth—of man’s spirit." It is the story of a man—the novel’s hero—who says that he will stop the motor of the world, and does. Dramatizing Ayn Rand’s complete philosophy, Atlas Shrugged is an intellectual revolution told in the form of an action thriller of violent events—and with a ruthlessly brilliant plot and irresistible suspense. Contrast this with Ayn Rand’s defense of capitalism, as dramatized in Atlas Shrugged. us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/atlas_shrugged.html   (4402 words)

Reading Group Guide | ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) Atlas Shrugged (1957) was her greatest achievement and last work of fiction. Her mind was utterly first-handed: she said what no one else had ever said or probably ever thought, but she said these things so logically—so simply, factually, persuasively—that they seemed to be self-evident. She was looking at the city she had always loved most, and now, after decades of rejection, she had seen the top publishers in that city competing for what she knew, triumphantly, was her masterpiece. www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/atlas_shrugged-author.asp   (1563 words)

Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged It is completely inseparable from Atlas Shrugged, much more obviously than in the two greatest novels which do something similar, Brave New World and 1984. Essentially a hymn to libertarian capitalism, Atlas Shrugged is the story of a competition between a group of people who really produce something and others who think that they are owed a living. The other thing that Rand does not do with her characters, which is almost effortless in Gide and done best by Sartre in his trilogy, it to develop the argument, to have the characters change over time as their understanding grows and circumstances move on. www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/6422/rev0653.html   (802 words)

But Is It Science Fiction? Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged In Atlas Shrugged, a metallurgist creates an alloy that will render steel and aluminum obsolete, but his competitors try to beat him down through every means except competition. She freely admitted that Atlas Shrugged was purposefully set in the near-future (of the 1950s); thus the technological advances are integral to the story. An interesting footnote: In 1983, Atlas Shrugged was given the “Hall of Fame Award” for classic libertarian fiction by the Libertarian Futurist Society (which also presents the annual Prometheus Award for best SF novel with a libertarian theme). www.scifidimensions.com /May00/books_ayn_rand.htm   (1056 words)

Books : Atlas Shrugged   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, 'Who is John Galt?', Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers. Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. www.traderslog.com /cgi-bin/apf4/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0451191145   (622 words)

The Fountainhead Vs. Atlas Shrugged - Objectivism Online Forum One can read Atlas from the perspective of its literary role: as the epitome of the Romantic novel, in relation to Hugo, etc. Or Atlas as the ideal concretization of metaphysics, because of the fundamentality of the theme, and the fact that it is the right philosophy. Reading The Fountainhead after Atlas Shrugged was like slamming the brakes on a speeding vehicle and driving in reverse because of the fundamentality of the issues dealt with in The Fountainhead and the fact that Atlas Shrugged took many of them as understood, like egoism, individualism, etc. It would be perfectly possible to describe the events of Atlas Shrugged in a fictional manner - the issue isnt the story itself, but the manner of the presentation. forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=1111   (3565 words)

Still Not Perfect» Blog Archive » Atlas Shrugged Even Dagny, Atlas Shrugged’s hero, uses her emotions and intense love for Hank Rearden, and later John Galt, to help shape her perception of reality, and Rand never condemns her for it. The trick, like when evaluating any other philosophy, is to take things with a grain of salt - evaluate the points and claims through your own perception of reality and through the philosophy you live your life through. Atlas Shrugged really upset me because of the methodical way in which the “overachievers” were overwhelmed by the morons around them. www.worrad.com /2004/12/18/atlas-shrugged   (1200 words)

Amazon.com: Atlas Shrugged: 35th Anniversary Edition: Books: Ayn Rand,Leonard Peikoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) Atlas Shrugged is one of two major novels that outlines her entire philosophy while trying to show how it would be applied. Atlas Shrugged is not a novel depicting ordinary people in ordinary situations. But the biggest contribution of Atlas Shrugged are the underlying themes that fill every page and promote Rand's self-designed philosophy of objectivism. www.amazon.com /Atlas-Shrugged/dp/0525934189   (2349 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Atlas Shrugged: Books: Ayn Rand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, 23 Aug 2006 It also puts you on a different plane of have read "Atlas Shrugged," instead of, have not read "Atlas Shrugged." This becomes important when in discussion with other people about politics in general. Atlas Shrugged is the first book I have read by Ayn Rand, and I was thoroughly impressed. www.amazon.co.uk /Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191145   (1297 words)

Atlas Shrugged (John's Book Pages)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) Whatever the merits of her ideas, it is unfortunate that with her writing style Rand seems to be trying to alienate exactly those readers that she wants to reach. Atlas Shrugged is more than a thousand pages long, and contains scene after scene that contribute little to the plot or to our understanding of the characters. It's a compelling book that says a lot of things that make sense, but that are not often said aloud in our culture. books.regehr.org /reviews/atlasshrugged.html   (167 words)

Review On Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand by Neo1983 - MouthShut.com Another best of part Atlas shrugged is like when u see a character like Dagny Tagart your respect for the women increases. One thing that comes to mind and analyzing the whole objectivism theory is in today’s Competitive world one cant live on standards depicted in this book. I would definitely agree with this, as this theory can’t be applied to all parts of life, as you are part of a family, which you can’t just deprive on the basis of logic. www.mouthshut.com /review/Atlas_Shrugged_-_Ayn_Rand-85566-1.html   (1207 words)

Pictura - Volume 16, Issue 2 Shrugged was not used to arriving at swift decisions, so he wasn't actually aware that he had reached one until his glasses slipped on the natural oils of his forehead and landed perfectly in the saddle of his nose. Shrugged pushed himself away from the table, and stood, president of an embryonic and yet unnamed country. Shrugged, with the suprisingly exuberant efforts of his wife, dictated his manifesto and a press release, and found himself at home as his wife drove down the street to the Copy Spot to fax the release to all the local papers and television stations. www.credenda.org /issues/16-2pictura.php   (1199 words)

Atlas Shrugged Summary & Essays - Ayn Rand Set in an imaginary America in a communist world, Atlas Shrugged is a sharp critique of a corrupt communist system and its damaging effects on areas as various as love, science, and industrial productivity. Things change, however, when the mysterious John Galt begins a revolution against the existing order, believing that the parasitic society would destroy itself if its competent and hardworking members would simply stop working. But first, the protagonists must learn how to let go of the ties of obligation, responsibility, and guilt connecting them to the abusive community in all aspects of their lives. www.enotes.com /atlas-shrugged   (270 words)

[No title] Shrugged_ "Who is John Novak?" In the half-light of dawn, it was hard to distinguish the lurker's face. It was the least natural and the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. Hawk was there-- but instead of turning into la belle dame sans merci we all know and love, she just sighed and let the little sexist go on ranting. linuxmafia.com /pub/jordan/Humor/alt.shrugged   (11303 words)

NoodleFood Comments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) Atlas Shrugged, IIRC, is actually _longer_ than LOTR, so the idea that one 2 or 3 hour film would do it justice is surely delusional. Atlas Shrugged doesn't have such an "easy" superficial misunderstanding (notwithstanding Whittaker Chambers--I don't believe he was confused about the book; his review was a pure dishonest hatchet job), and this is why the Left and the artsy-fartsy crowd uniformly hate it. Because of this I consider Atlas Shrugged to be the introductory novel for adults wondering what this Objectivism thing is all about, and Fountainhead to be a more specialized book that should be read later. www.dianahsieh.com /cgi-bin/blog/comments/view.pl?entry=114614605733815358   (4707 words)

Vinod's Blog:USA Today: Resurgence of Atlas Shrugged In these post-Enron days of corporate scandal, some of the millions of copies of Atlas Shrugged that have been sold over 45 years are being dusted off by executives under siege by prosecutors, regulators, Congress, employees, investors, a Republican president, even terrorists. But Atlas Shrugged is more point-blank with Rand's philosophy, and it's the second-most-influential book of all time, a distant second to the Bible, according to a survey of 5,000 Book-of-the-Month Club members taken a decade ago for the Library of Congress. And bam!, someone hands you a copy of Atlas Shrugged and it feels like it was written just for you. www.vinod.com /blog/News/atlas_shrugged.html   (841 words)

Hit and Run An Atlas Shrugged about the auto industry, the broadcast industry, the airline industry, or the computer industry, for instance, just wouldn't be the same. The most important benefit from setting "Shrugged" in the future would be to get people looking forward, toward a possible future, as a place we might come to if we don't make some changes now, not a place we already managed to avoid because of a lucky fall of the dice. If Atlas Shrugged is to have a future as a popular film it must be set in the near future rather than the near past. www.reason.com /hitandrun/2003/05/atlas_plugged.shtml   (2218 words)

Atlas Shrugged Then the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge - Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve - Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainity that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. He doesn't waste his time wishing things to be different or trying to change them. members.tripod.com /tanmaykm/literature/atlas_shrugged.html   (2837 words)

Pie Not Included: Atlas Shrugged (by Ayn Rand) I will not ask permission to do all these kinky things to you, but luckily you want to be forced into all the kinky things, you dirty bitch. The sex scene in atlas shrugged was quite not rape- the one in the fountainhead was- but the one in atlas was just violent (nothing wrong with that). I read half of Atlas Shrugged before throwing it in the trash, which is a sacrilege in my life. www.mopie.com /blog/2006/01/atlas-shrugged-by-ayn-rand.html   (1591 words)

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