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    The Little Prince, by Antione de Saint Exupéry, isn't an ordinary story. In fact, it was tailored for the child inside of us, but even as grow-ups we can't seem to understand it fully. However, Saint Exupéry's use of Archetypal theory, the hero's journey in specific, assists the reader throughout the story and eventually reveals the meaning of it. There are conflicting opinions on who exactly goes on this heroic journey. In my opinion, it's only the the little prince: the pilot on the other…

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    Baobab Evolution

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    Knowledge is what makes one thrive and grow, this is best done through the interaction of others. When the Little Prince and the pilot meet, the pilot had just crashed his plane in the Desert of Sahara. The Little Prince asks the pilot to draw him a sheep. Since the pilot had only drawn two drawings in his entire life (a boa constrictor from the outside and a boa constrictor from the inside), he was really confused. When the pilot drew the first sheep, the Little Prince rejected it saying the…

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    and it was based on a true story of Alan Turing, the genius mathematician that cracked Nazi codes, including Enigma, which was thought to be unbreakable. Turing loved codes and ciphers, which is a very hard category to enjoy and understand. The movie depicted Turing as mentally ill, having no sense of humor, and being disrespectful, which are popular mathematician stereotypes in reality. However, despite following popular characteristic of the stereotype Turing was also a homosexual, a trait of…

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    asserts his contention that the computer simulations ‘did not account for the human factor’; 35 seconds. In Tyldum’s The Imitation Game, it is Turing whose rose against his own personal odds and the sheer task as he finishes the world's first computer, a factor attributed as one of the main reasons the allies won the war. However, unlike Sully, Alan Turing did not become an…

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    shadows and lighting accentuates a half-lit face of Turing in a police interrogation room, making him appear helpless and troubled. Furthermore, this half-lit lighting of his face symbolises that there is another side to Alan, where he is a prisoner inside himself, with his sexuality revealed to the police. Sully is constructed as a reserved man who believes that ‘(he) is not a hero’, his actions later dubbed the ‘miracle of the Hudson’. Unlike…

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    German Communication could decompose and Britain could read gestures German and the war was won by the Allies. Because of this discovery, Alan regarded as a pioneer of the computing world and experts to develop artificial intelligence. Despite his genius has helped the state, Alan was sentenced by the British government on homosexual acts that was illegal at the time. The movie is related to one of great debate in International Relations, which is great debate…

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    Computer Influence On War

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    specific, Alan Turing. Over years military grade computers have greatly improved from what they were in the time of The Colossus to the computers simulations of the Cold War to the drone based militaries present today in the United States. The invention and development of the computer has been the largest change in war in history as it has completely changed how war was fought. Prior to the invention of the computer war was fought with numbers, weapons, and leadership.…

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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…

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    In the article “Is Polygamy Next?” the author William Baude used his own opinion and some justice’s opinion in this article about America marriage in 21 country. The first thing he wrote is the Supreme Court’s judged the right to same-sex marriage; as a result, some people were have the same question: “could the decision presage a constitution right to plural marriage?”(1). Second, the author wrote that The Judge Richard A. Posner “rejected a right to plural marriage because it would lead to…

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    No doubt, Turing did some amazing things and revolutionized much of the technology we have today. He triggered just about all we available to us today. However, beside him being the amazing intelligent man he was, society frowned upon him for being homosexual. Male homosexuality was completely illegally when and where he was located, whether in public or private (Beaven & Stacey, 2012). Turing spent a lot of time with his psychiatrist Dr. Franz Greenbaum who tried to help him. Turing a man…

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