A Brief Moment of Pride
I'm now in eleventh grade, and last year was my last chance to enter the Anthem essay contest. I did so several months ago and forgot until a few days ago, when the email came in.
Third place! (Granted there are 10 3rd place winners, but still cool.) Earned a pretty penny for my essay, and a free book. I chose The Fountainhead, to replace my torn up copy; the rest I already have.
Now it's time to tackle The Fountainhead essay. ;)
Third place! (Granted there are 10 3rd place winners, but still cool.) Earned a pretty penny for my essay, and a free book. I chose The Fountainhead, to replace my torn up copy; the rest I already have.
Now it's time to tackle The Fountainhead essay. ;)
Keep up the good work.
I didn't know we had this kid in the Gulch!
A good kid. A smart kid.
A kid who does intelligent things she can be proud of.
We need more of those.
So does this country.
Sarah would be safe in my Jurassic Park paddock.
Congrats Sarah!
I think, next time I stay in Jurassic Park, I'll camp out in your paddock instead of the velociraptors. Last time was a fiasco.
But have you seen an allosaurus in Jurassic Park movie?
No-no-no!
I'm being discriminated against, I tell you!
Discriminated against!
Slighted in the worst kinda way!
Oh, boo-hoo-hoo!
He lifted The Lost World title off a previous novel and a silent movie in which an allosaur was called a "pest."
He also renamed "Eaters of the Dead" written by a medieval Arab (that I read during the 60s), retitled it "The Thirteenth Warrior," and passed it off as his own work.
You may find it amusing to scroll through the flick in which Allosaurus beat T-Rex for appearing in a movie. Jurassic rock layers may be older that Cretaceous, but allosaur fossils were also dug up first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7vcK...
Allosaurus did not walk so upright as did T-Rex in many a movie.. It was during the 80s that paleontologists figured out that theropod carnosaurs were tail-balancing teeter-totters.
The Jurassic Park movies got it right.
You have something else to tell your brother.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle penned The Lost World on which the 1925 silent movie was based.
Before he wrote that, he completed his Sherlock Holmes series of mostly short stories.
I read some if not most of those stories in a hardcover book I bought during the 70s.
I know I did not read them all because Sherlock's arch rival Professor Moriarty was not in any of them.
Click the link and scroll down to find The Lost World mentioned under "Other Works."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...
Are the essays available to read in the public domain?
Never enough ladies here in the Gulch!
dental practice, you know. -- j
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private message and check on her. -- j
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May you have a brilliant, satisfying, and complete life.
We are here to mentor that process.
are different! -- j
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Oh how I wish that I could turn back time and be introduced to Ayn Rand's thoughts by age 15.
You are very fortunate.
I am grateful for the enhancement of my entire life.
all of a sudden, I wasn't alone, anymore!
Rand was out there, proving that there were others! -- j
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Please share the essay here, we would LOVE to read it.
Jan
'favorite daughter,' and she keeps on proving
just how fine she is! -- j
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every interaction, and we love them all with you! -- j
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I will never lose sight of this community of friends. I'm always happy to see familiar faces like yours. :)
Good luck with the Fountainhead essay.
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