<p>I was a semi-finalist last year for Anthem (picked up a good 30$), I was wondering who else entered/won...</p>
<p>i entered, but i didn't win anything because i didn't really try my best since my teacher made me enter i didn't see the point in it. good job though. i might try this year though (voluntarily) if i get around to it.</p>
<p>I was going to enter that. I loved the book. But, I just hate writing essays about books--it kills their enjoyment.</p>
<p>Thinking about it for Atlas. I have a crapload of rofessors who are willing to help me, so I think I may have a decent shot. :)</p>
<p>i was thinking of doing the contest for the fountainhead if i can get through it that is</p>
<p>Ayn Rand is garbage. Don't read her.</p>
<p>EDIT: Read her and then discover for yourself how her ideas on objectivism are garbage.</p>
<p>^ Because I'm usually in the habit of taking advice from random, angry teenagers on internet forums.</p>
<p>^^ </p>
<p>On every thread I see you respond to, you are always there to start a fight. I was just putting out my opinion on an author. I even offered you to read the author for yourself. Don't attack me. I have seen how many pages you write, bickering with people. Get a life. </p>
<p>How am I angry just because I think Rand is garbage? That doesn't make me angry; it just means I dislike her work. Can I not dislike someone's work without be classified as "angry"?</p>
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<p>Why not get a life and stop spending so much time on forums that you can pick an individual poster out of hundreds? Some call it belligerence, others call it blunt opinion. What the hell is the point on posting on an Ayn Rand thread, an essay contest in which people WHO HAVE READ THE BOOK are discussing writing an essay about it, and telling them not to read it? Are you trying to up your post count or what?</p>
<p>Actually on-topic, are you guys thinking about doing Atlas or Fountainhead (or Anthem, for any 9th and 10th graders out here)?</p>
<p>You are a prominent poster on here, so you stick out. That is how I can recognize you. You don't remember the people on here who post long messages on topics? You are on CC, so you should have some level of intelligence that would allow you to discern prominent posters from those who just post "lol" or some other nonsense. I am making an assumption, of course.</p>
<p>Well, I have no desire to argue with you. Good day, miss!</p>
<p>I was thinking about Anthem, but I decided against it.</p>
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<p>He's telling them to read it so that they could figure out how bad it is. I figured that out after reading Anthem.</p>
<p>sort of wondering whether I should try to do fountainhead...anthem was okay, and I did the essay contest (nobody in my school won)...</p>
<p>...and if anyone's wondering, if teachers send in a certain number of entries-they get Ayn Rand prizes and amazon gift certificates</p>
<p>I did anthem last year. I didn't win, but a girl in my class was a semi-finalist. </p>
<p>BTW...I love Ayn Rand</p>
<p>I hate Ayn Rand with every fiber of my being. I've always wanted to enter that contest and tell those objectivist freaks exactly why.</p>
<p>Boring books... I could get 100 bucks from a regional essay contest writing about something much more interesting.</p>
<p>Oh dear god. Perhaps I would write an essay on Ayn Rand if I managed to be able to get past that freakishly large book that also goes by the name of Atlas... I probably shouldn't have started with trying to read Atlas. As such, I think I've been put off from her for the rest of my life. Sorry, no Fountainhead for me either. (although I've heard that's also no walk in the picnic)</p>
<p>Miss Silvestris: Go for it. Roark and Reardon did not need the opinions of others for motivation.</p>
<p>I'm going to read Anthem for my 20-30 page english final term paper.</p>
<p>I love those corpulent books! Which, actually, don't seem as thick if you buy the big editions with the much-bigger sized font.</p>
<p>I finished The Fountainhead last month for this contest and couldn't bring myself to start the essay until this weekend. Ayn Rand is a psychotic nutjob on par with Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter, although Rand knows how to write.</p>
<p>But since I forced myself to read that 720-page monstrosity in a month and a half and nearly gave myself high blood pressure from ranting about her so much, I'm going to give the essay a shot. Maybe I can get some cash out of it.</p>
<p>dtex50: I think Howard Roark is an annoying crybaby. Yeah, we get it, society crushes the genius, we're all parasites for being altruistic, blah, blah, blah. Don't need to write 720 pages on it, Miss Rand.</p>