question d

Individualism in some cases do mean freedom. People have their own freedom to be individual, meaning their own person. My view sort of agrees with Ayn Rand's but I feel that anyone can be an individual if they choose to. They may belong to a group but they can still be an indivudual.

question c

I disagree with her point of view. I feel that having a religion or practicing a religion will give some people a sense of security. In my opinion yes, some people do need and use their religion as a guide because they have no guidance in their life and so they look at a religion as some sort of guidance.

question a

I'm stuck in the middle on the issue. I believe that there is no collective brain but that there is also a collective brain. When dealing with technology,such as computers, you have to use your brain and the computer itself to complete your task. Without your brain you couldn't do everything on the computer but the computers also uses your brain such as the way I am typing this it continues to autosave although I did'nt tell it to.

Ayn Rand

Collectivism- a belief that everyone should have ownership over land
Individualism- by ones self.
Socialism-goods and services controlled by the government
Capitalism-when someone or a corporation controls production and distribution.
Communism-a theory that defines no private ownership.


In both of Ayn Rand's essays she explained the background of rights. She explained in the essay titled "Man's Rights" that everyone has rights and they are entitled to them. In the essay "Collectivized Rights" what I got out of it was that no group could have rights but the individuals in the group could.(collectivized rights, Rand). She opened up a whole new subject that is rarely touched on.

The two essays in comparison both have the citizens in mind. "Thus, for every individual, a right is the moral sanction of a positive—of his freedom to act on his own judgment, for his own goals, by his own voluntary, uncoerced choice. As to his neighbors, his rights impose no obligations on them except of a negative kind: to abstain from violating his rights."(mans rights, Rand). This meant that every one person had their own rights and no one could take that away from them. "Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members." This meant to me the same as individual rights but adding that no group can have rights, only the people partcipating in it even if that meant signing over their rights if they were a criminal.

I agree totally with Ms.Rand's essays. She made a strong argument and backed up all of her information by giving examples. She explains things in a new light because most people never really know exactly how to differentiate between the rights of themselves and what they are entitled to and the rights of groups.

Song of My Life

Till it Happens to you by Corinne Bailey Rae

I know what I saidWas heat of the momentBut theres a little truth in between the words we've spoken
Its a little late now to fix the heart thats broken
Please don't ask me where I'm going
Cause I don't knowNo I don't know anymore
It used to feel like heaven
Used to feel like mayI used to hear those violins playing heart strings like a symphony
Now they've gone away
Nobody wants to face the truth
But you wont believe what love can do
Till it happens to you
Till it happens to you
Went to the old flat
Guess I was trying to turn the clock back
How come that nothing feels the same now when I'm with you
We used to stay up all night in the kitchen
When our love was new
Oooh love I'm a fool to believe in you
Cause I don't knowNo I don't know
AnymoreIt used to feel like heaven
It used to feel like may
I used to hear those violins playing heart strings like a symphony
Now they've gone away
Nobody wants to know the truth
Until their hearts broken
Don't you dare tell them
What you think to do
Till they get over
You can only learn these things
From experience
When you get older
I just wish that someone would have told me
Till it happens to you
Till it happens to you
Till it happens to you


I choose to post this song because it explains my life and the lives of people that I know. You really can't explain a situation to any one until it happens to you.