In Edward Albee’s play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”, we witness an intoxicated and scathing bout of repressed emotions between four unique characters. Albee debuted his play on Broadway in 1962 to much critical acclaim (bio.com). It was later made into a motion picture, which also received many accolades (bio.com). This dramatic piece has endured to this day as a masterful work on the exploration of bitter resentment and emotional violence within a disintegrating marriage. All four…
The Cipher Letter was a letter from Burr to Wilkinson detailing all of his plans, and Wilkinson had sent this letter to Thomas Jefferson to aid in the conviction of Burr. So, the court had this evidence, proving that Burr planned to attempt to separate parts…
In the novel The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison the theme is appearance, the black characters in the novel have been taught their whole lives to trust that whiteness is the perfection of attractiveness. The characters in the story are constantly subjected to images of Caucasian people through books, candy, toys, and movies. In the beginning of the book we see the characters Pecola and Frieda rave over Shirley temple’s beauty, and later in the story we find out Mrs. Breedlove goes to the movies and…
Biography (Early Life): Alan Turing was born in June 23, 1912. At his early age he was separated from his parents due to the fact that they had been working overseas. When he was 13, he was to sent to Sherborne School which was a boarding school located in Dorset. The education system that was run there meant that his scientific mind wasn’t given any kind of encouragement and so he studied advanced science ideas by himself which was far ahead of the schools’ timetable and what he should’ve been…
There is one particular experience that outweighs the rest, my father draped a cloth over my head after a restless day of training then tied my arms and feet with a rigid rope. Regardless, of all my efforts to escape it was futile to attempt to protest my kidnapping. Then, he dragged me into the tub drowning me in intervals for 5 minutes lifting my head up every so often to hear my gasping breaths gurgling the water under the cloth. I hear laughter as my vision begins to blur and blackness…
Antigone tells the story of two characters, Antigone and Creon, who go against each other’s pride to defend their own. Creon, the King of Thebes, declares punishment upon Antigone for trying to illegally bury her deceased brother after he committed a crime. Antigone is trying to bury her brother so that he may pass over into the afterlife. Both characters believe that what they are doing is the right thing to do. Neither one of them want to put their pride aside and reason with the other.…
Summary: The story “Symbols and Signs” was artistically written by; Vladimir Nobokov. It is a sad and intricate story, with lots of nooks and crannies to explore. “Everything’s a cipher and of everything he is the theme”. The short story is about a single day in the life of an emigrated Russian elderly couple, wanting to visit their son on his birthday. They now live somewhere in the United States, but their son resides in a mental institution, he has been there for approximately four years. The…
Beam search is an informed algorithm for searching a graph that extends the Breadth-First search (Jungwirth, 2006). The Breadth-First search is essentially a special-case Best-First search where the evaluation function, f(n) is the same as the heuristics function, h(n) (JONES, 2008). Therefore in order to properly discuss Beam search, there is the need for a brief introduction to Best-First algorithm. The Best-First search traverses a tree from top to bottom and searches for nodes on the same…
reporting, analyzed the raw intelligence gathered by his agents, and mounted an extensive campaign to deceive the British armies.” Likewise, the Americans utilized double agents, coordinated sabotage operations and paramilitary raids, used codes and ciphers, and disseminated propaganda and disinformation to influence foreign…
The continuing technological revolution in communications and information exchange over the past years has led to a growth in a new form of crime, cybercrime. Hence, criminals across the globe have invented various ways to use computer technology for theft, fraud as well as harassment. According to Holder and Jaishankar (2011, cited in Tiganoaia, 2013), cybercrime is defined as “an offence that is committed against individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally…