Ayn Rand was truly a remarkable woman and accomplished an astonishing feat throughout her career and her philosophy continues to affect the lives of many people. Through her works of fiction and her essays later in life, she discovered a whole new philosophy, a philosophy of life on earth. This vision has inspired countless people to take charge of their own lives. Alissa Rosenbaum (Ayn Rand) was born on February 2, 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was the eldest of three sisters and her father, Zinovy ​​Rosenbaum, was a successful pharmacist and businessman who owned his own pharmacy. Ayn and her family led a rich life. Very early in life, Ayn found school unchallenging and found refuge in writing screenplays at the age of six and novels at the age of eight. At a very young age, Ayn also entered politics, supporting republican ideas. In 1917, at the age of 12, she witnessed the first shots of the Russian Revolution from her balcony. It was overnight that his family was reduced to poverty when communist thugs confiscated his father's pharmacy. This disrupted the comfortable life her family enjoyed and she and her family were forced to flee St. Petersburg to the Crimean Peninsula, which was initially under the control of the White Army during the Civil War. While attending high school, she became an atheist, as she valued reason above all else due to the revolution and the fact that she and her family had been repressed as individuals. Witnessing this brutal civil war shaped her beliefs as she realized the government was taking away her right to think and be a person. After attending high school away from home, she graduated at the age of 16 and returned to St. Petersburg when...... middle of paper ...... and repressed because of collectivism or just as an individual they will always claw and fight for their own freedom and the individual will always declare their own purpose in life.Overall Any Rand is an extraordinary individual with an amazing philosophy for life on earth. Through each novel she wrote, she placed her philosophy of Objectivism as the centerpiece of each. Rand wrote a lot about wanting people to be selfish, but in a way where one follows reason not faith and works hard to live a meaningful life. As well as making your own happiness your main priority and learning from others by treating them as individuals. Ayn Rand was so dedicated to her philosophy and dedicated her life to making her views known to people that in the end all she wanted was for people to know that her philosophy was the key to live on earth day after day..