Admissions Essay

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This paper is an admissions essay written by an aspiring Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for acceptance to the University of Southern California. The paper portrays the applicant's dreams and desires for his future. The paper discusses Ayn Rand's novel, "The Fountainhead," highlighting the hero's philosophy of life that rests solidly on a realist foundation of individualist power and self-reliance. The applicant compares his own personal philosophy of life to that of the book's hero.

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"Howard Roark, the hero of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead, won't stop short of genius or success. As an architect, he helps erect the solid yet symbolic structures of his personal ambition. His creative prowess is not appreciated by his contemporaries; he is ridiculed and professionally hindered. In spite of his inability to maintain a secure business because of these external obstacles, Roark emerges as an unequivocal success and role model for an individualist philosophy. It is his brand of self-determination and unabashed individualism that guides my personal parameters of success. I don't feel success can be defined by broad and blanket terms, and I don't feel that success depends on an ascription to cultural or social norms."

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