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    Who is Alan Turning? Alan Turning was born on June 23, 1912 in Maida Vale, London, England and died on June 7, 1954 at age of 41, he was a mathematician, cryptanalysis, logic, computer science, and mathematical and theoretical biology. He went to Sherborne School, Princeton University and gradated. One word to describe this man, he was a “Genius.” He was well known for breaking the German Enigma code during the World War II, and made a machine that can break the code easily. He named this machine

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    computers were invented by Alan Turing. He invented the Turing Machine, which is a computer that could process anything. In other words he created the first programing language. Not only did he contribute to computer science, but also in biology, chemistry, physics, and especially mathematics. He has countless number of achievements including his contribution of cracking the Nazi enigma code, which seemed at that time, “unbreakable”. Now lets dive into the life of Alan. Now where is better to start

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    The Imitation Game The film, “The Imitation Game”, follows the life of Alan Turing, a homosexual mathematician, who became a war hero after breaking Enigma, an encryption device that the Germans used for communication purposes during World War II. Decoding Enigma had a major effect on World War II. In 1939, Alan Turing, and four other code breakers, Joan Clarke, Hugh Alexander, John Cairncross, and Peter Hilton were employed by the British military as cryptographers to decipher the secret messages

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    Life is just like the ocean, whatever choice you make as a steersman, you must be well aware of your favorite, that is, it is worthy of pursuing in your whole lifetime. My high school physics teacher influenced me a lot in life choices. First of all, I have cultivated great interest in physics from junior high school. It has been my most favorite subject. As a result, my physics grades have been the best among my batch. During my high school studies, I took part in the High School Student’s Olympic

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    The Imitation Game

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    of how we can learn from the theme of Homophobia and the idea of Individualism. The film is about Alan Turing and his struggle to create a machine to decipher the enigma code used by the germans in the second world war. Throughout the film he works past obstacles in his way in order to achieve this goal of creating a “mechanical mind”.The film is mostly shown as a series of flashbacks from Alan as he is questioned by the police about being accused of the crime of indecency (homosexuality). The

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    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 British

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    The Enigma was created at the end of World War I and patented in 1919 by Arthur Scherbius, a German engineer. The Enigma was a electro-magnetic ciphering machine and it was used by the German military as a way of communicating securely. As time went on, the Enigma was updated, and made more secure. It was used throughout World War II until the end of the war, though the Germans didn’t realize that the Enigma had been cracked by the British. Arthur Scherbius first released the Enigma for commercial

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    is Enigma? It is a mysterious thing that is hard to understand, even if possible. During World War II, Alan Turing took on the mission to break the code that so many people in Britain thought was impossible. Even though Alan Turing’s childhood was full of misery, he was able to break a seemingly unbreakable code, and became a war hero by saving countless of lives during World War II. Alan Turing had a hard life in his childhood. His parents did not take care of him because they were always on the

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    Ralphie’s secrete message , from The Christmas Story, that he received from the Ovaltine decoder pin looked challenging and difficult at first but soon was able to decode the very important message. However, if his message from Little Orphan Annie was coded with the Enigma machine it may have been more puzzling for Ralphie just like it was for the rest of the world.The Enigma machine was a complex machine that was used by the Nazis during World War II to send secret messages. This machine consists

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    The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, which is based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. It is about the code breaking program by the British during World War II, which helped Britain to break encoded Enigma messages from the Germans. Alan Turning, the main character, is a homosexual mathematician that is in charge of the project and is portrayed as a selfish genius that builds the code breaking machine

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