We’ve all been known at some point in life for going to a great length to per say, get a hundred on that test or get that job you’ve always wanted. And well I believe in an unorthodox way we inherited it from our ancestors where they had to go through great lengths to be successful or even just to survive. These stories are just examples of just how far some people go to survive. For instance, the Edgar Allen Poe story where it truly shows how far some people may go to survive. The story takes place in 1884 on the ship, Grampus, where a man called Richard Parker survives a natural disaster with four other crew member onto a lifeboat. Two weeks later, everyone had become famished and wanted something to eat, so Parker had stated why not kill this man who has no family and is gravely ill, the Captain, Dudley agreed and
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During the era of World War 2, the British government was secretly trying to crack Enigma, that was until Alan Turing has shown up. Alan Turing was a mathematician, who believed that he could invent a machine that could process encrypted messages and solve them. Although everyone he worked with him though he was truly a madman, he kept working on it each day even though there could be hundreds of people dying by him not trying to at least solve one encrypted code a day. But in the end he was able to finish his machine and break Enigma. Sadly in 1952, he had been arrested for being homosexual, which at the time was illegal in Britain and later committed suicide after years of “hormonal therapy” to “fix” him. Luckily in 2009 he received full pardon. This true story shows how far people go to survive because, even though Turing knew people were dying each day he went to the “kill two birds with one stone” scenario by solving Enigma and potentially saving the whole world and ending World War
During the era of World War 2, the British government was secretly trying to crack Enigma, that was until Alan Turing has shown up. Alan Turing was a mathematician, who believed that he could invent a machine that could process encrypted messages and solve them. Although everyone he worked with him though he was truly a madman, he kept working on it each day even though there could be hundreds of people dying by him not trying to at least solve one encrypted code a day. But in the end he was able to finish his machine and break Enigma. Sadly in 1952, he had been arrested for being homosexual, which at the time was illegal in Britain and later committed suicide after years of “hormonal therapy” to “fix” him. Luckily in 2009 he received full pardon. This true story shows how far people go to survive because, even though Turing knew people were dying each day he went to the “kill two birds with one stone” scenario by solving Enigma and potentially saving the whole world and ending World War