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In literature, characters thrust into a life threatening situation at the hands of science, often represent and convey strong emotions to suggest and enhance the themes intended by the author. To the naked eye, the theme of survival would be the most outstanding theme in both Michael Crichton’s, ‘Jurassic Park’, and Francis Lawrence’s 2007 movie adaption of the book ‘I am legend’. In both these texts, the author places the characters in a dangerous situation instigated by science. In Jurassic…

In the film 'Mississippi Burning' directed by Alan Parker, there are many scenes that build up tension. One of which is the interrogation scene, where the FBI use a black man to threaten the mayor of Mississippi into giving evidence. It’s a scene where Parker uses lighting and sound techniques to build tension, making the watcher unsure of what happens next. The lighting techniques create a spooky atmosphere, whereas the sound techniques uses quietness, a different way to build up tension. This…

against him, and gratitude, to God for his blessings and the ending suffering. Forgiveness and gratitude can strengthen and heal people from many afflictions or trials presented to them. Similarly, in his 20th century novel, Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton employs the use of anaphora in order to emphasize how through gratitude and forgiveness people can gain strength and be healed of afflictions and have peace. Forgiveness frees people from emotional pain which allows to them to heal.…

In V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, V takes matters into his own hands to rid Britain of the fascist government that has plagued it. He uses torture, murder, and mind manipulation to try and save the country. He was able to get everything to fall into place and get rid of their government Norsefire and free the citizens, but does that undoubtedly make him the hero? People have debated that he was either hero or villain. V is neither hero nor villain, but a vigilante due to of the…

Alan and Jenny Moro were a married couple who had been trying to have a child for many years. After two failed attempts they finally had a child, on March 3, 1998 a little baby entered the world and they named it Emily Amber Moro. That, of course, is me. My mother, Jenny, is of Hispanic origin. She was born in New York, but her parents are from Dominican Republic, her first language is Spanish and she lived in America until she reached middle school when her parents decided to return to their…

In the book, Cry , The Beloved Country, the author, Alan Paton, writes about how Kumalo struggles in the search for his long lost son Absalom. However, because Kumalo is in a distant place away from his home, he writes a letter to his wife stating as to what has been going on with their son Absalom. To tell the truth, if I were to write to Kumalo’s wife in Kumalo’s position, I would state all the bad information first then end off with the seemingly good information. Furthermore, I would first…

Movie: The Imitation Game Internet The imitation game is a movie about Alan Turing and the Enigma-code. He is a mathematical. The movie takes place in the WO2. The Germans had decrypted all their massages so that the American and the British army can’t understand and read the massages. Alan Turing should cracking the code. Under time pressure, he makes a machine who can crack the codes. After two years it finely worked. Now it was possible to read every massages. The Germans…

Three Characters Who Have Changed While venturing on an unexpected journey, someone will learn and change as a person wether it be for better or worse. Absalom Kumalo, James Jarvis, and Stephen Kumalo discover through time, this exact thing in Alan Paton's novel: Cry, the Beloved Country. Frightened at first, experiencing pain, and suffering but emerging as a new person with understanding proves to be the path each character will take to discover who they really are. John Kumalo, entering…

Cleverbot is an online AI program that any user can “have a conversation” with. To use the program, one simply has to log onto the host website and type ANY random phrase into the conversation box, be it sensical, nonsensical, inappropriate, innocent...the options are limitless. The AI will then respond, conversation-style, with something similar or related. The nature of this program has baffled many people, and even the creators of the site claim that the average user will feel as if they…

Poland discovered that Germany was preparing for war and gave a replica of the Bomba to the French and British during a meeting in 1939. After the British assembled a team of mathematicians at Bletchley Park codebreaking center, British mathematician Alan Turing developed the Bombe. This new machine also contained many enigma rotor wheels which searched for the rotor order, starting position, and plugboard settings. This would take an extremely long amount of time (especially since German…