Alan Cumming

Have you ever heard of the Little Grand Canyon? The providence canyon was not even a canyon it was a dense forest. That all changed when farmers moved into the area in the 1800's They stared growing crop and cotton. Well the Little Grand Canyon is where the testament to the man's influence to the land. The gullies that are in the little Grand Canyon are as deep as 150 it was made there by poor farming practices in the 1800's. , When the framers was cutting down trees and everything they did not realize

To crack the highly sophisticated German codes, Max Newman, a Princeton graduate who majored in mathematics, spent over eleven months designing and building the Colossus. A monolithic, humming machine, covered with an array of switches, the Colossus was the world’s first electronic digital programable computer. With over fifteen-hundred thermionic tubes, the Colossus ciphered German codes and neatly printed the top-secret codes on a long receipt. Then, with knowledge of the enemy, the coders would

Jaiden Rodriguez Honors Analysis Essay In V for Vendetta the James McTeigue film and Novel from George Orwell depicted on a masked vigilante ¨aka V¨ takes up arms using terrorist acts against a fascist government that abuses privacy and shows a dictatorship type government that rules against the people that live in this society. The masked man ¨V¨ What the author is trying to warn about the misuse of technology in this film and novel is that Privacy is an aspect of life that is abused, and violated

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