Alan Garner

Alan Turing was a renowned modern mathematician and cryptologist who became known as the father of computer science and eventually became a gay rights icon for his persecution due to his homosexuality. He was also extremely important in winning the second world war, developing the world’s first computer to combat and break the German message encrypting Enigma machine. In fact, Winston Churchill, one of the most prominent figures of World War II, let alone the 20th century, said that Turing made the

focuses on Alan Turing and his work on creating a machine to instantly crack messages. The Nazis used the extremely complex enigma code for communication purposes. The British worked on cracking enigma at Bletchley Park and were very

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." V for Vendetta is an action packed thriller that involves lots of intense scenes and follows a great storyline. This film does an awesome job of keeping you on the edge of your seat throughout. This movie is great in showing that the people are powerful and can be in charge, if they put their minds to it. The story line follows a corrupt Britain lead by a fascist government who is in complete control

In the movie, “V for Vendetta,” I assume the character of V. throughout the movie, I hide behind a mask that belonged to Guy Fawkes, the man who tried to blow the parliament building of England on November 5th, 1605. I had gone through a mysterious past that no one could be sure about. During my younger tears, I was admitted to the settlement camp in Larkhill where I underwent medical testing. During these testing periods, I did not show the physiological characteristics the other subjects showed

Anybody who’s read comics in the past few years probably knows the name Jeff Lemire. The canadian born writer/artist has worked for DC Comics, Marvel, as well as a bunch of creator owned work. In 2008, Lemire started writing the Essex County Trilogy , a collection of graphic short stories that take place in Lemire’s hometown. The collection of the Essex County Trilogy won Lemire The Alex Award, The Doug Wright Award, and the Joe Shuster Award. Lemire also won a Harvey Award for best new talent in

Alan Mathison Turing was a gay mathematician during World War II whose work is estimated to have shortened the war by two years and saved an estimated 14 to 21 Million lives. He is considered the father of modern computing due to his contributions to the area of study. There is an award as well as a Law and may buildings and statues in his honor. The man was a genius but was lost too soon due to his suicide whilst doing a procedure known as “Chemical Castration” to eliminate his libido due to homosexuality

In the film, V for Vendetta, the director, James McTeigue, expresses his ideas of fear, sacrifice and change through a character in the film called Evey, V’s hostage later to be helper and lover. An idea of how to reach our full potential we have to make sacrifices in order to overcome the fear which makes us powerless. Mc Teigue used film techniques such as camera shots, dialogue and symbolism to highlight the idea of Evey changing from fearless to fearful. McTeigues depiction of Evey at the beginning

The movie V for Vendetta is a thriller action movie, based on the 1988 DC/Vertigo Comics limited series V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. The movie was later produced in 2005 under director James McTeigue. The movie begins in London in the late 2020’s. The world is in a great turmoil and warfare, with the United States completely destroyed from a prolonged second civil war and europe is being destroyed from an outbreak of the St Mary’s virus. While all of this happened the Norsefire political

In Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton shows us how two families are breaking apart. The natives are suffering but they are not the only one who are suffering. A white person’s family is also falling apart. Stephen Kumalo is a native from Ndotsheni and he has trouble with his family from the start. John Jarvis is a white person and he is also experiencing trouble with his family. Stephen Kumalo’s family is in a bad condition. His sister, Gertrude, and his son, Absalom, left Ndotsheni a long time

Psychology Throughout “The Imitation Game” Ostracism is very dangerous to a person’s health and can cause detrimental damage to themselves. Throughout the movie “The Imitation Game” Alan Turing has been ostracized all of his life from in school to even as an adult. Since he was much brighter than his peers in school and enjoyed subjects like cryptography they considered him to be different from them and did not acknowledge him except for Christopher Morcom who became his only friend and first love