Help a sista out(i know who john galt is)!

Hello everyone. I was looking up some information on objectivism and found my way here.I think its awesome there's a website with a forum that looks pretty decent enough to invest some time on. (I never write in forums) I first stumbled apon Ayn Rand through my best friend 2 years ago, she said she was inlove with a man in a book, Howard Roark and told me nothing about it only that i had to read it so I did. wEll anyway since htis is my first post i thought i might give a little bit of background information but my time is runiing(im in class) so let me get to the point, My assignment in my English class is to write an argumentative essay and i've decided to do it on the foundation that is Man's Ego is the Fountainhead of Human Progress(this is not my title), and argue the fact that if it wasn'f or creators the world would have stopped..damn i've somehow slipped into Atlast shrugged . Im having trouble finding a thesis that i can break down and not stray from. could you all give me some examples of arguable thesises? I would greatly appreciate this.

Post 1

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 6:03am

Theresa, it's very difficult to give you suggestions for "arguable theses" in a vacuum. You need to ask yourself what in The Fountainhead was especially important to you, and do you understand it well enough to present and defend it. No one can answer those questions for you.

Barbara Branden

Post 2

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 3:07am

You must have asked a tough question because you did not get any replies. I am not sure that I have a reply, either. Looking back on college now, I think that my best work at that time was the most specific. Broad topics, such as "Man's Ego," are easier to rant about and harder to think through. Personally, I would take a very narrow topic from the news and argue my opinion about that, drawing a general conclusion about a broad theme. That would work better than trying to start with a high abstraction and then shoving a scaffold of facts under it.

You could consider the recent success of Spaceship One from the Rutan "Scaled Composites" firm, funded by Microsoft's Paul Allen. On the other hand, Martha Stewart is in jail. Both of those events -- and the mass media reactions to them -- reflect our conflicting opinions of individual achievement. Something from the frontpage would make the best springboard for a general statement about "Man's Ego."

Post 3

Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 2:22pm