Andrew Hodges

Morten Tyldum, the director of The Imitation Game has also done this on several occasions throughout the movie. The scene where Turing admits to being homosexual is one such instance. This scene could have never happened because according to a combination of sources such as John Cairncross’ autobiography, in which he says that “The rigid separation of the different units made contact with other staff members almost impossible, so I never got to know anyone apart from my direct operational colleagues” (96). Furthermore, Andrew Hodges, whose book the movie in based on, in an interview stated that it is “ludicrous” to imagine that two people working separately at Bletchley would even have met. One can understand the reason Tyldum portrayed this scene in the movie as it reinstates the themes of homosexuality and secrecy. Additionally, it also develops many relationships and characters in the story, such as Alans relationship with Joan and…

John Hodge took some persuading to make the film - he described the novel as having "no story" and Welsh's prose as "dialogue-driven". Again, it took 30 days to shoot. The film cost £1.6 million, financed by Channel 4 who was able to pre-sell it on the back of the success of Shallow Grave. The film went on to take £13 million worldwide and is the second highest grossing British film of all time - after Four Weddings and a Funeral. Danny Boyle thoroughly researched…

1820, 120,000 Indians lived east of the Mississippi. By 1844, fewer than 30,000 were left.” This decrease was due to the idea that “our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent.” Once the cotton gin was established in 1793 and more slaves were needed as well as land because of the climate needed to grow cotton. In order to obtain that land, they needed to remove Indians. In 1823 the Supreme Court ruled that their “right of discovery” is more important than Indians “right of occupancy.” …

Social Conditions in “Meet You In Hell” Les Standiford’s 2005 “Meet You In Hell” biography of two men, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, recalls the events after and before the bloody incident that occurred on July of 1892. The incident involving the steelworkers and Pinkerton, so called detectives, from the steel manufacturing plant in Homestead Pennsylvania came to be known as “the deadliest clash between workers and owners in American labor history” (Standiford, 28). After the dust had…

Carnegie Steel Corporation, the second being labor; the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers. Working conditions were severely poor, with long hours and little pay. “As William Livingstone said: harder work, longer hours, less pay and no security: ‘New machinery is constantly displacing the men…The longer days came in soon after the strike. Sunday work was a later development. Under the twelve hour day men have no time to themselves. The work is hard and hot…The heat is…

peaceful if the northern aggression of a revolution had not taken place. Ultimately though the Union plowed through the Confederacy and destroyed everything that they could lay their hands on. In the end after the last show as fired, the south was mortally wounded and the southern men limped back their plantations and farms defeated and without purpose. The process of Reconstruction was a novel idea but it had no fail safe and thus the blacks were left out in the cold without any real plan of…

However, on April 15, 1865, America was forever changed. Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction and peace following the Civil War were destroyed, leaving the racist and oppressive President Andrew Johnson to take over. Booth’s actions had cultural, historical, and social consequences on America. John Wilkes Booth impacted the United States by assassinating one of the most loved presidents, Abraham Lincoln. Without his actions, the world would be different because Lincoln would have gone on to do…

Edmund Ross’s Influence on the Impeachment Trials of Andrew Jackson “He is a man off courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.” Socrates quote greatly expresses the courage and determination Edmund Ross showed in the impeding impeachment trials of Andrew Jackson. Edmund Ross played a major role on American History as he fought whether to vote with his conscience or with the majority vote. First, a history on Mr. Edmund Ross is important. Edmund G.…

The material from this book and the material we learned in class in exactly the same. Mr. Estep and Patricia Brady do an excellent job of presenting the material. The only difference between the two is that they choose to add different details to different material. The documentation that the author provides throughout the story is tremendous yet still making the story interesting. All of the documentation material comes from The Papers of Andrew Jackson. The most significant information I…

"A slow-moving Category three hurricane or larger will flood the city. There will be between 17 and 20 feet of standing water, and New Orleans as we now know it will no longer exist." —Ivor van Heerden, October 29, 2004. Hurricanes are natural disasters that cannot be prevented but can be prepared for. Hurricane Katrina formed on August 23rd, 2005. Over the last hundred years, hurricane Katrina is one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of United States of America. Hurricane Katrina has…