Anthem Health Data Breach Could Compromise PII of 80M Date February 5, 2015 Hackers allegedly broke into Anthem, Inc.’s database last week, potentially compromising the personal information of approximately 80 million former and current customers, as well as employees, according to multiple reports. The information potentially compromised includes names, dates of birth, medical IDs or Social Security numbers, street addresses, and email addresses, according to a statement from Anthem president
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Ayn Rand’s Anthem depicts the dystopian future in which an unnamed society has completely “forgotten” the word ‘I’. While reading Anthem, Ayn Rand introduces Equality 7-2521, the hero who breaks away from the status quo of the unnamed society. Collectivism is the immoral guide for the unnamed society, a guide that Equality challenges to the extent of its extremities. The dictatorial leadership of this society restricts even thinking about one’s self, no one person is obliged to give priority to an
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looking up facts about another company and giving that information to their boss but they think they’re doing it because it’s their job and not because the boss just wants the information to run down the company and take it for himself. Well that’s” Anthem” by Ayn Rand in a nutshell. Equality 7-2521 is made a Street Sweeper by The Council Of Vocations but it’s not for the reason anyone would originally think. He lives in a society, far from our own where our time is known as ”The Unmentionable Times”
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Many people in our world say that freedom is one of the best things to have. People can do things freely and don’t have to worry about other judging them. In Anthem, Ayn Rand uses diction to show that freedom leads to happiness. In Anthem, the main character Equality says “It has been a day of wonder, this, our first day in the forest”(Rand 78). Rand uses the word wonder to explain how Equality feels and he has never felt this way. Before he went into the forest, he lived in a society that was dreadful
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as evil if him or her even show the slightest bit of vanity. In the book Anthem, this is reality. The main character, Equality 7-2521, is smarter than most people, yet he is forced to dumb himself down and is put into the job of an inferior street sweeper. The human race has replaced the words I and me with we and our. Anyone who speaks the word ego is burned at the stake in the name of equality. Ayn Rand, the author of Anthem, wrote the book in first person major for the purpose of better showing
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In Ayn Rand’s “Anthem”, a plethora of themes is presented. Ayn writes about a collectivist society at an indeterminable date in the future, but the residents ae lead to believe by the government that this is a utopia. They had lost all individuality and free will to collectivism. So, the main character, Equality 7-2521, tried to change this and instead got cast away by his brothers. He wanted them to thrive. Collectivism is detrimental because human nature is to be selfish, self-reliant, and independent
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SWOT Analysis of Anthem Inc (ANTM) & Aetna (AET) SWOT Analysis of Anthem Inc (ANTM): • Strengths Strong free cash flow: Anthem has the free cash flow that provides resources to the company for expanding and developing new projects. Skilled Workforce: The company is investing substantial resource to train and motive their employees through the means of training and other learning programs. Satisfactory returns: The company is somewhat successful in the implementation of its new and current
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The novel Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella written by Ayn Rand, a Russian-born American novelist in 1937. The main purpose of this novel was to show discrimination of individuality. Rand used characters with ironic names such as the main one, Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000. Equality 7-2521 has become very critical of the leaders of his society by the end of the novel, denouncing them in moral terms while in the process in becoming an individual. Moral values are important to most people
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In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand, everybody is perfectly equal and treated the same. But, this fact is pushed to the extreme and there is absolutely no individualism. The people of this society do not even know the words I, me, or mine. Everything is done for the good of the great “we”, all of their brothers. Speaking the word ego is punishable by burning at the stake. There are not even families because that would mean loving someone more than another. Children are raised by the state and are brainwashed
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In Anthem, Equality is seen in his secret spot performing experiments for hours at a time. He does this for his own personal gain and is intrigued by it. Finding old technology from the Unmentionable Times makes Equality happy. One day he finds the power of
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