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I'm sorry. It was late. I did proofread the post, but I couldn't remember whether or not misspelled need a hyphen or not. (I just checked and MS Word does not comment on miss-spelling being misspelled.) I am a horrible speller in general, so I usually transfer my posts into Word. As for receive, well I figured it was such a short post, I didn't merit being transferred into Word. How wrong I was. One more thing: I have seen people get corrected for misspellings, but "objectivism" (yes, that was on purpose) usually generates the most attention. So, to xOraclex: I wasn't trying to correct you, merely to inform you. Sorry about the errors.

Welcome to the forum. Not to nitpick, but Miss Rand's philosophy is Objectivism, with a capital O. Just a friendly piece of advice that you get this right, because you will recieve a comment for almost every miss-spelling. With that said, read Atlas Shrugged. It is the best novel I have ever read, and will probably ever read. I also noticed you are into philosophy in your bio. Who do you admire and why? Also, what did you think of The Fountainhead?

Thank you. I actually just took the test and, even though he told us explicitly we would have to do a proof of one of the Pythagorean Identities, it wasn't on the test. The test actually turned out to be the easiest one all year. Thanks for the help though, who knows when I will have to do it again. I never would have thought of how to do that. Zak

Okay, I have a math question of my own now. I need to prove that 1+tan*x=sec*x. (*=squared. It's just easier) Can I use the other pythagorean identities to do this, as long as I don't use this one? If I do: 1+sin*x/cos*x = 1/cos*x 1=(1/cos*x)-(sin*x/cos*x) 1=(1-sin*x)/cos*x 1=cos*x/cos*x 1=1 Right?

Yeah, that's about the time I catch up on some sleep and other homework or start listening to music. I generally try to get a seat in the back . Losing credit after missing any class four times seems a bit harsh; is that without a resonable excuse? At my school, one can miss class 12 times before losing credit. Not that I ever skip class, but I go skiing quite a bit (thought not this year: no snow ), plus other vacations, etc. I don't like this letter. I didn't take it to be a joke and thought it extremely presumptuous. The teacher assumes that the student is automatically asking something of the teacher. If my mother screwed up and booked the wrong flight, I would send an email to the teacher to apologize, but I wouldn't expect to recieve special treatment because of it. It would be wrong for me to lose points because of it. I can see a teacher's frustration in students not taking the blame and acting like it's the teacher responsibility to do favors for them. But this letter makes a huge generalization. Zak

Yeah, I've got an essay test tomorrow. I know I am capable of deciding whether or not I liked it, but I am also interested in what others think. My teacher absolutely loves it and she is not an especially bad teacher. I thought I might get the opinions of others. Considering how boring I thought it was, I may have missed some symbolism that someone else might have enjoyed. When I read for school, I do not put in nearly as much care as when I read something for fun.

I just had to read this book for my "honors" english class. It was one of the most boring, depressing books I have ever had to read. It has no theme, save racism is bad. I did not find it uplifting, nor did/do I even really care that much about Maya Angelou. I do appreciate her for trying to overcome the racism. She become the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco and, wonderously, was not racist toward whites. I have a few questions regarding her and the book, if anyone can help. What were her political views? I searched on google, but I couldn't find anything. What did anybody else think of the book? Did anybody see a point in writing it? She writes with so many metaphors and similies, yet I have yet to find one that actually was symbolic of anything. If I am horrible wrong, please let me know. As always, responses appreciated. Zak

I'm not so sure if a world like 1984 is completely possible. If you riddle society full of contradictions and control their mind, who is going to produce? What would keep society even at the level it is at? I read it twice; once for me and again for school. I have to admit I enjoyed the book, even after I read Anthem. I like Anthem better, but this seemed to be another strike against communism. The thing the teachers in schools should tell their kids (and this is true of Animal Farm too) is that Goldstein and Snowball represent Leon Trotsky. I was told this, but for some reason I figured he was a Capitalist. Anyway, I really wish the school would have told us that because it wasn't until months later that I bothered to Google Trotsky and came up with a commie. That takes alot away from the book for me. Plus, I'm sure many of the other kids at my school thought he was a Capitalist. For my two cents, I enjoyed it, but at a level of ignorance. Now I don't like it as much. Zak

Yeah, that is pretty frickin' amazing. I'm in Pre-calc now, but its kinda boring. Like I get the stuff, but make really stupid mistakes so its really frustrating; plus last year (Alg II/Trig.) I had the best teacher! He is the real calculus teacher and a serious genius. We speak the same language, so much so that I didn't even have to listen after the first five minutes. It just all kinda clicked. Non-contradictor: How can you start BC before you take AB? My school makes us take them in order. AB then BC. Zak

Wow. What kind of school lets you take BC Calculus before high school? (You said you took it two years ago, right?) Is it just a regular public school or a private one? The highest my school (public) let us go is Algebra in seventh grade. Well, actually one of my friend's mom talked to the school and he took it in sixth grade, but I didn't know that until too late. What math are you in now? -Zak

No the origional problem contained a -10 and +5 which equal -5. Necessary Truth had a +10 and +5. No harm done.

I have three favorite and most beautiful objects. My skis, Solomon Ten-Eighty 171 cm. These are my favorite pair of skis and the first large object I bought by myself. They are silver with geometrical shapes dancing across their face. My kayak. For my sixteen birthday I asked for (and happily recieved) a beatiful kayak. It is yellow and red; sixteen and a half feet long. iPod. The second (and third; first one was stolen) large object I bought with my own money. As others said, I love the simplicity of the face. Zak

That's cool. I wish my school let me (made others) read Rand for class. What grade are you in? By the way, if you think Miss. Rand is a genius after Anthem, you won't believe how good Atlas Shrugged is. Zak Ps. Is your sn related to Switchfoot's cd?

Could you try and explain this for me? I really don't understand the malleable goo comment. Thanks alot.

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. " -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) "Patriotism is supporting your country all of time, and your government when it deserves it." -Mark Twain "The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us will go to the stars." - Free Capitalist (well, he told this to me, but said he found it some Objectivist article or when talking to a person.)

Yeah, those are all of my favorite soundtracks (except I've never seen/heard Crimson Tide). The Rock has to be my favorite movie (or one of) and soundtrack. I also enjoyed the theme to Lord of the Rings. Did anybody else? Thanks: I didn't even know the name of the composer to those pieces!

Is that how the Christian saying goes, or is that something you say. If it is something you say, congrats on conning a great saying. Do you mind if I use it? If it's something the church says, that is very interesting and kinda cool. Thanks either way, Zak

Okay, I was at youth group tonight (yeah I know my mom forces me to go. Its actually not that bad because most of my closest friends have to go to.) Anyway, the "lesson plan" for tonight was on Napoleon Dynamite. The whole thing was on how "the meek shall inherit the earth" and loosers like Napoleon are good (I guess. It wasn't very clear). I seriously almost threw up. I got really sick to my stomach when I heard that. The point is, the movie is being taken seriously by some people and that's just scary. Zak

I got Rush's 2112 and, sorry to those who recommended it, but I don't especially care for it. It's not bad, but I don't like it nearly as much as I thought I would. I can't really understand the lyrics and, frankly, I just didn't think it was that great. Anyway, I said I would let you guys know how I like it. Thanks for the recommendation, it didn't pan out, but whatever. I did find a really good band called Daphne Loves Derby. They are kind of soft like the Postal Service/ Death Cab and Snow Patrol. Zak

In my history class, we are studying the same period and it just so happens my teacher is a socialist. So, could you recommend any good books about this time period please. Anything would be greatly appreciated.

I thought it was one of the worst movie I've had the displeasure of seeing lately. The characters make me uncomfortable and I just don't like watching them. The whole story is about people who don't want to do anything with their lives and are generally a bunch of loosers. I enjoy stupid movies like Dumb and Dumber, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spaceballs, etc, but I just hated this one. As Free Capitalist said above, I found the movie quite depressing. (In fact, that was the exact word I was looking for when my mom asked me how it was, thanks!) The funniest part was laughing about it afterwards with my friends. Well, at the very end when Kip is singing his song to Lafonda was pretty funny too.

That's funny. The exact same thing happened to me! Ha ha. I am not an "avid" Harry Potter fan, although have have read all of the books multiple times. Anyway, if you (or anyone else for that matter) reads the whole thing, let me know how it is. Zak

Well you speak English quite well for it being your second language. I really wish I grew up speaking two languages. I'm in my third year of Spanish, but, seriously, I could care less. I really can't understand a native speaker or hold a reasonable conversation. See, we don't learn converstational Spanish, we learn technical Spanish. I was playing soccer and these Mexican guys started playing with me; I understood all of three words. The sad thing is I have an A in the class. I really like indie rock, alternative, scremo, emo (but there never seems to be a real definition for emo),...yeah, you get the idea. Do you normally listen to bands in English or Dutch? (check out the "Objectivist bands" thread for some recomendations. Zak

Why? Based on what proof? Faith and "feeling" that the universe could not have been created any other way?

Hey, what's up? I'm sixteen. You said your intro that your into music: what kind? Also, is English your first language? Zak