Abstract
The paper looks at how Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" is set some time in the future in the United States, which is experiencing a severe economic depression. The paper describes how businesses are closing down left and right, however, business dealings that continue are conducted in backroom bars and involve manipulation and deceit. The paper relates that "looters" (the government and people who seize property from capitalists) run rampant trading favors for value, with muscle and influence becoming the new form of currency, resulting in the weak profiting at the strong's expense.

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"Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" is set some time in the future in the United States, which is experiencing a severe economic depression. Businesses are closing down left and right, however, business dealings that continue are conducted in backroom bars and involve manipulation and deceit."

Tags:atlas, shrugged, socialism

Abstract
This paper discusses the theme of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" which focuses on the obligation of individuals to care for themselves and to ignore demands that they sacrifice themselves for the public good.

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"In Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged", steel magnate Hank Rearden says when he is on trial that; "The public good be damned, I will have no part of it." In this single statement much of what constitutes Rand's philosophy of Objectivism is revealed. At its core, Objectivism and the novel as a fictionalized polemic, holds that individuals are not entitled to social welfare, to preferential treatment, to pity, or to any special favors. Rather each man is entitled to use..."

Tags:Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, theme, novel

Abstract
"This paper shall examine three memorable quotations provided by the somewhat inscrutable protagonist of Ayn Rand? 1957 classic, Atlas Shrugged. The paper argues that Gault's quotations are intended to underscore Rand's own conclusion that the de-sanctification of private property, free-market competition, human ingenuity and creativity and, not least of all, societal standards of excellence will lead to tribalism, wide-scale mediocrity and inefficiency, and will excise a society of its essential vitality. In an age where big government remains an ever-present danger, Rand? work has lost none of its importance."

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The world that Ayn Rand crafts for us in Atlas Shrugged is a deeply disturbing one in which individual thought and creativity has been suppressed to such an extent that society itself has stopped moving forward. This paper reviews Rand's work by exploring three passages found on our assignment worksheet in which his views about the society he has fled are delineated. The importance of these passages to the text's underlying themes will be discussed in their appropriate sections. However, it may be said that Rand's John Gault, the man who effectively stopped the motor of the world, is the diabolical seer whose vision leads to a society of cynical indifference, mistrust, and spiritual vacuity. The story begins with Eddie Willers in a heated discussion with President James Taggart, of Taggart Transcontinental.

Tags:rand, atlas, creativity

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses the Atlas Copco Group, which is responsible for the manufacturing of electric and pneumatic tools. The writer notes that the company is extremely successful but like any company of its magnitude Atlas has several problems that must be resolved. The writer makes recommendations to Atlas concerning such issues as supply and demand, expansion in North bay and issues associated with suppliers. The writer concludes that the company must implement total quality management, and focus on R&D as it relates to supply and demand. The writer also maintains that the company should find competent realtors and evaluate lease to buy options as it relates to expansion in North Bay. Finally, as it pertained to problems with suppliers, the research indicates that the company should have contracts with all suppliers and implement some degree of vertical integration.

Outline:
Introduction
Matching supply and demand
Expansion in North Bay
Suppliers
Conclusion

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"Since the company is concerned about increasing efficiency and competence it is important that research and development, total quality management and automation play a key role in solving this problem. Research and development is recommended because it will assist the company in creating the products that meet the needs of customers. Research and development will also assist the company in understanding the quantity of products that should be produced to meet customer demand. Total Quality management is needed to ensure that the company is producing a product that is of excellent quality; doing so limits the likelihood that the product will have defects. This is important because defective products are more likely to be recalled and product recalls can cost the company a great deal of money. TQM will also improve efficiency."

Tags:tools, supply, demand, products

Abstract
The title of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" represents the major theme of the novel, which is to detail what happens to the world when the best of men can no longer exist in it. The "Atlas" of the title is the character John Galt, the hero of the novel. This paper compares the Atlas of Greek mythology with John Galt and examines the significance of the reference with the political message of the novel.

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"To look at Galt and his role in holding up the world, it is now necessary to consider exactly what Galt represents. While Galt is one man, he also represents all the thinking men of the world. He is the perfect man, the ideal man who fights to save the world. This is akin to the brave warrior who saves the world by battling enemies, except Galt fights with his mind. His fight is against society itself and a political system that encourages capitalism and rejects the individual. Galt describes himself saying, "I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values" (Rand 936)."

Tags:greek, mythology, world, heaven, decision, society

Abstract
The paper relates that Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" is set some time in the future in the United States, which is experiencing a severe economic depression. The paper explains that the destruction of the railroad in the novel is a metaphor for the rise in socialism and the end of capitalistic competition in its purest form. The paper also discusses Rand's fears of a socialist society, one which is subordinate to an irrational majority that is drunk with power and greed. The paper further discusses Rand's belief that a government who strips individuals of rights and values will only lead to despair and hopelessness in the end.

Outline:
Introduction
Factors That Make the Destruction of the Phoenix Durango Railroad Possible
Relation of the Meaning and Theme of Atlas Shrugged to the Destruction Factors of the Phoenix-Durango

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"The influential characters in the novel include John Galt who initiates, conceives and implements the strike of the great minds, and invents the motor and the "destroyer" (343). Dagny Taggert is the vice president of Taggart Transcontinental railroad, who tries to keep her railroad afloat and out of the hands of looters. She eventually joins in a strike against the looters. Hank Reardon is a steel baron, one of the nation's greatest industrialists, and Dagny's lover. He also joins the strike against the looters. Francisco d'Anconia is a hedonist, playboy, a copper industrialist, and the wealthiest man in the world, who is an ally of Galt and the first to join him on strike. He is Dagny's first lover and suffers the most for joining the strike. Dan Conway is the builder and owner of the Phoenix-Durango Railroad, which is a dominant force in the southwest United States, and overtakes Taggart Transcontinental as Colorado's major freight transporter."

Tags:Phoenix-Durango, Railroad, looters, government, socialism, capitalism

Abstract
This paper looks at the Atlas Copco company's range of services and their marketing strategies. The paper explores how Atlas Copco is influenced by developing local and world trends, especially the trend towards environment consciousness and energy conservation. The paper shows how the company copes with modern threats to the industry, turning them into relative dangers that can be overcome.

Outline:
Overview
Product Description and Market Offerings
Developing Trends
Relative Threats and Solutions

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"The history of the company in its present form began in the 1950's. Atlas Diesels acquired compressor specialist, Arpic Engineering SA, Antwerp, Belgium in 1956. In the same year the company changed its name to Atlas Copco; an abbreviation of Compagnie Pneumatique Commerciale, which highlights the company's increased focus on compressed air. Today Atlas Copco's Airpower facility in Belgium "...is the world's largest and most advanced manufacturing site for both portable and stationary compressors, employing around 2 600 people. " (Atlas Copco Airpower Celebrates 50 Years of Success: 2006)"

Tags:coal, mining, threats, opportunities, environment

Abstract
This paper explains that, in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," all of the novel's heroes believe in the primacy of individualism and capitalism. The author points out that the villains of "Atlas Shrugged" attempt to control the flow of capital and of creativity by creating a socialist state in which the greatest thinkers and entrepreneurs stifle their natural inclinations. The paper concludes that the chaos, which takes place throughout the course of the novel, illustrates Rand's thesis that money is the root of good, not evil, and that state-controlled industry is the ultimate affront to the human mind and human potential.

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"For example, John Galt, the statuesque hero of Atlas Shrugged, creates the "strike of the mind" in response to the government's attempt to usurp the free flow of capital and ideas. His name reflects the centrality of money to the novel's theme: Galt sound similar to gelt, a slang term of German and Yiddish origin denoting money. The meaning of Galt's name is underscored by his heroic stature. The protagonist of Atlas Shrugged, Dagny Taggart, also upholds the book's central theme of the beneficence of money."

Tags:thesis, entrepreneur, individualism, capitalism, socialist

Abstract
This paper explains that the protagonists in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" are industrial geniuses, such as Dagny Taggart and great minds, such as Francisco D'Anconia, who are fighting against a society that doesn't want them but desperately needs them; the society and the government are the antagonists. The author points out that this book is about losing to win, which is a philosophy created by Ayn Rand, displayed by her characters and called objectivism, a system where each individual strives to be the best they can be and to profit themselves. The paper relates that feminists, who are sympathetic with the themes of Rand's literary work, say that Rand has created a rare female character, Dagny Taggart, on a par with any folk hero or medieval knight, but even sympathetic feminist readers have difficulty with Rand's seeming to define her female characters in terms of their relationships to their male counterparts as a derivative or dependent, if not subordinate.

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"For the adult Dagny, there are few men (individuals) in the world to whom she could submit or subordinate herself. As John Galt is following her into the long, dark, abandoned, granite tunnel of Taggart Transcontinental Railroad, Dagny chants to herself, "You will follow me." These words silently spoken are more a claim of right than a prayer, more a demand than a wish. Sensing that she is being followed, she moves even faster into the darkness, pulse beating rapidly, but unafraid. And then, despite Galt's "leashed intensity," the "harshness of his lips...down the line of her throat, leaving a trail of bruises and his elbow knocking her head aside," with "her teeth sinking into the flesh of his arm," there is less surrender than "worship of him.""

Tags:antagonists, losing, winning, objectivism, derivative

Abstract
This paper examines the book "Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand, which depicts the interplay of two forces-- regulated economic freedom and free-market system. The philosophy and the practical stances of both the schools of thought within the context of events that occur in the book are discussed.

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"Atlas Shrugged is a fictional account, which depicts the causes, the results, and the ultimate connotations attached to the moral and philosophical self-destruction that the mankind, in general, is slipping into in a gradual fashion. The most significant cause and hence the philosophy behind this moral decadence is the lack of belief in the morality of self-interest. And the vehicle through which this is perpetuated is the governmental control featuring diminishing economic freedom. Therefore the plot of Atlas Shrugged revolves around diminishing economic freedom resulting in intellectual stagnation. However there exists an opposing force that provides a directly opposite plan of action with a directly opposite belief system. Those belonging to this school of thought are intellectual and highly capable, rebelling against a society that preaches altruism, a society that teaches struggling victims that sacrifices for the sake of others is proper and moral, a society that indoctrinates its youth with a vicious, destructive skepticism. In this society, need is the most important claim to virtue, and so the most productive, capable men are forced into virtual enslavement by a vicious code of directives intended to eliminate all economic class distinctions."

Tags:economics, free-market, self-destruction, society, morality, government