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Anthem/Ayn Rand

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Chris Mikesell

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An Anthem is a song of praise, devotion,

or patriotism.

It establishes and celebrates your values.

The Star-Spangled Banner

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

[verse four — yes, there are four verses]

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

God Save the Queen

(national anthem of Great Britain)

God save our gracious Queen

Long live our noble Queen

God save the Queen

Send her victorious

Happy and glorious

Long to reign over us

God save the Queen

Took an American History course her last year of high school from which she determined America to be her model of an ideal, free nation

1925: obtained permission to leave Soviet Union for a short trip to visit relatives in United States, but never returned.

Big ideas of Objectivism (as relate to Anthem)

  • Individual is most important
  • The proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness
  • No obligation to help others
  • Government should display full respect of individual rights (opposed to civil rights)
  • Economy: laissez-faire capitalism

Influences: Historical Events

The Dust Bowl

1930s

  • Cyclical lack of "demand" prevents job growth (no jobs means no one's buying anything, which means nothing needs to be made, which means there's no need to create jobs)

  • Government intervention was a popular solution
  • Having survived complete government intervention (i.e. communism), Rand knew first hand the dangers of a government takeover

Russian Revolution

  • January 2, 1905, hundreds of un-armed demonstrators in St. Petersburg were massacred
  • became known as Bloody Sunday
  • People allowed some say in government (Imperial Duma), but same problems still present
  • People revolted and demanded that land be redistributed
  • Tsar surrendered and arrested
  • Provisional Government put into place
  • PG and soviet workers shared power

Downside(s) of Communism

  • Government still corrupt, just different politicians
  • Everyone gets something, no one gets enough
  • Centralized decision making = limited choices
  • No incentive to work harder/smarter/better
  • Isolation = Stagnation (no new/competitive ideas)
  • Ultra-restrictive government combats dissent
  • No free speech/press (different thinking = dangerous thinking)
  • Unsuccessful farmers migrated to California as a last hope for jobs

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The Great Depression

1930s - early '40s

Average American incomes reduced by 40%

American Dream going downhill

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  • Economy worsened
  • Businesses failed as prices inflated
  • People starved

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  • PG soon claimed total power
  • Radical socialists invited back to Russia
  • Struggle of power between Lenin and Bolsheviks
  • Overall, a violent revolution

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  • Resulted in protests throughout empire
  • People slaughtered or put in "camps"

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  • People lost faith in Tsar Nicholas

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  • Caused by poor agricultural techniques and prolonged drought
  • Children wore masks to school
  • Crops blown away
  • Houses always dirty

There was so much wind and dust...

  • Chickens roosted during the day because they thought it was night
  • Trucks were blown 30-40 feet
  • Houses were buried

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Anthem

by

Ayn Rand

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Theme:

Power of the individual

1911: taught herself to read at age 6

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Born February 2, 1905

in St. Petersburg, Russia

Witnessed the Kerensky and Bolshevik Revolutions during high school

Died March 2, 1982 in her New York City apartment

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For the rest of her life, she lectured on Objectivism, her "philosophy for people living on Earth"

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Wrote her last work, Atlas Shrugged; published in 1957

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Moved to Crimea to escape violence

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Published The Fountainhead in 1943, and followed by writing the screenplay, which was produced in 1948.

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Wrote Anthem in 1937 as a "break" from novel The Fountainhead.

Graduated in 1924 from the University of Petrograd where she studied philosophy and history.

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Finished first novel, We The Living, in 1934, but was rejected by many publishers until two separate companies in England and the United States finally published it in 1936.

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Wrote "Hollywood: American Movie City" in 1924 at the State Institute for Cinema Arts where she studied screenplay.

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Arrived in New York City, February 1926.

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After staying six months with relatives in Chicago, she got an extension of her visa and moved to Hollywood to pursue a career writing screenplays.

Married actor Frank O'Connor in 1929

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Got a job offer within two days.

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"We are all in one and one in all/

There are no men but only the great WE/

One, indivisible and forever"

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"Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: 'I will it!'"

"We" cannot accomplish anything if "I" cannot think for himself

Works Cited

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Greenlee. American Literature- The Moderns. Michigan: Michigan Merit Curriculum, 2011. Print.

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Litwin, Peter. "The Russian Revolution." UW Departments Web Server. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 May 2011. <http://depts.washington.edu/baltic/papers/russianrevolution.htm>.

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