Anthem Conflict

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-521 faces a conflict of man vs universe throughout the entire book. The conflict is that Equality 7-521 if different then everyone else in his world because he is taller, he is smarter and thinks differently. Later along in the story he becomes even more different when he invents electricity for this is outlawed because only scholars can create and discover new things for Equality 7-521 is only a street sweeper. He escapes his man vs universe struggle by escaping from his city and running away into the forest but after making his way through the forest with his friend which he calls the Golden One, they reach a house from the unmentionable times which houses books and inventions from times prior to theirs. Through the story you can see the man vs universe conflict because of the way the universe treats him.

Father of 9/11 Victim Fights to Have 'Murdered by Muslim Terrorists' Inscribed on Son's Memorial

The article's main idea is father named Peter Gadiel want's to have the phrase "Killed by Muslim Terrorists" inscribed on his son's tombstone James Gadiel was killed in the September 11th attacks. The town has voted not to inscribe this on his grave marker because they have a Muslim family living in the town says Ruth Epstien she also says that she does not want to alienate any of the people in her town but for Peter Gadiel he thinks differently"Muslims have to acknowledge that it was their co-religionists who committed this act in their name," he said. "I am offended that unlike so many others, they refuse to acknowledge that it was their people who did this." Personally I think he should be allowed to have that quote inscribed on his son's tombstone because he was murdered and they were Muslim terrorists. I don't think it would be though of as offensive because if was a group of people and not every Muslim did it.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569771,00.html

Quotes 10/8/09

"We became hard, suspicious, pitiless, vicious, tough- and that was good; for these attributes were just what we lacked." (Remarque 26.)

In All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque quotes this and how the war had changed them and how it helped the survive the war. If they were not changed into these these things they would have surely died because if you did not change into a adult and maned up you would have been thought of as weak by your own men as well as others.