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Our Artificial Happiness

Download PDF version “But I was sad…. I was sad, wasn’t I? And ashamed, I can still feel it. I just don’t know why…” (Ollie Starkey, We Happy Few). Substance abuse has affected society for a long time. Whether the...

The ethical and socio-political tension between individuals and society in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and Dave Eggers’ The Circle

Download PDF version This article examines two novels, Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand and The Circle (2013) by Dave Eggers, through the context of American capitalism as a thriving political and socio-economic vision that spans from the 1950s to...