Alan Cumming

Innocence, trust, truth, and calmness are all different feelings that one might have or encounter in their life. Most of these feelings are felt as a child and as a parent more often. Blue is conservative and calming in a positive aspect. But blue can also relate to sadness, lonely, cold, or depressing, in a more negative way. You feel these things when you feel betrayed, lied to, or the loss of a loved one. Blue can stimulate so many feelings depending on a situation. The Polar Express and the poem

“Can a machine made by intelligent minds have an intelligent mind of its own?” This was the question that was being asked in the 1950s. A man by the name of Alan Turing decided to venture out and analyze this question for himself by coming up with a thought experiment in which he called the imitation game. This is a game that involves three players. One of each gender and one who plays the judge to determine the gender of players A and B. A’s job is to try and trick C-the judge-into guessing the

avoid pain, no matter how short term and most will comply with the demands of a torturer to avoid pain."( Bagaric, M. & Clarke, J, 2007). Sometimes, even the threat of torture alone would make the criminal cooperate with the interrogator. Professor Alan Dershowitz the renowned civil libertarian and law professor at Harvard University, has also been a supporter for the legalization of torture. Professor Dershowitz cited a kidnapping case in Germany in which the son of a banker was kidnapped. The boy

How can one make so many mistakes in life and still be forgiven as if they did not do anything wrong? In the novel Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton, religion was an important point throughout the whole novel. The main character, Stephen Kumalo, who simply goes by Kumalo, was a black South African priest who revolved his life around his family and God. There had been many times in Kumalo’s life where his feelings and actions had been the results of devoting his life to God. Paton continually

Ethics Case Study Analysis Introduction Ethics Entertainment Industry Film/TV (Animals Were Harmed: Hollywood's Nightmare of Death, Injury, and Secrecy Exposed | Hollywood Reporter Exclusive, 2017 To begin The American Humane Association the grantor of the familiar “No Animals Were Harmed” trademark accreditation seen at the end of film and TV credits. Has the many responsibilities that monitors on sets, they are protectors of animals, to monitor the welfare of the animals used in the production

The movie titled “The Imitation Game” directed by Morten Tyldum is based on the true story of Alan Mathison Turing. This particular movie was inspired by the biographical book, “Alan Turing: The Enigma” written by Andrew Hodges. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptanalysis, and a well known war hero. In 1952, he worked at Bletchley Park, Britain’s code breaking center, during the Second World War. Subsequently, he cracked the Enigma, which is an electro-mechanical rotor cipher machine that generates

Leonardo Da Vinci, Man of Math Ask any given person who the most famous artist during the Renaissance was and the result would be nearly unanimous in the answer of “Leonardo Da Vinci”. But why is that? Yes, there is the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper to his name, but his legacy has extended beyond the world of paint and into other modern popular realms: of best-selling books (The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown) and even world renowned video games (Assassin’s Creed II). For each reproduction of his character

Denniston was having trouble with the Enigma Machine since the German had made it more complicated, so Denniston put together some people to form the Government Code and Cypher School (1). The group was called GCCS (1), and it included a man named Alan Turing, and of course,

Tomatoes"). Alan Turing used these words when speaking to Joan Clark, played by Keira Knightley, about joining the Bletchley Park researchers in Southern England. Throughout The Imitation Game, this same string of words is said two other times. The quote captures a reoccurring theme portrayed within the movie. Defying adversity is the overall theme, and one that is revealed in many aspects in the movie. The Imitation Game was directed by Morten Tyldum in 2014, and it reveals the story of Alan Turing,

A little over two years ago, the Republican Party surprised me by electing its first African-American chairman. I would have never thought that it would happen and many had their own ideas why. Whatever the reason, that was now the case and history was made. Not being of this party, I can not speak directly to the affect he had on this party but what I can say is how much of his election made me begin to see both parties moving forward and America finally beginning to turn the page on race relations