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Saving Private Ryan, Casablanca, and Inglourious Basterds are three different movies that were produced in different time periods and have different plots, details, and points of view, but all still revolve around one common historical event-World War II. This is an occurrence that happens not only in movies but also in literature. A literary example of this is the correlation between the flood story in The Epic of Giglamesh and the flood story in the Old Testament Bible. Giglamesh is an epic…

What is a VPN? It stands for virtual private network. Its main purpose is to secure the connections between the host and the server. It fulfills that purpose by using tunneling protocols, encryption, data encapsulation and certified connections to protect the identity of the host. The simplest way to think about it is to compare it to a LAN connection but without wiring. The History of VPN: Early VPNs were often set up to give individual employees secure remote access to their company…

of Aboriginal[1] Canadians have been victims of criminal activities and/or hate crime. This number is almost twice the number of non-Aboriginal Canadians who were victims of crime. Indigenous women make up a high percentage of this number. As the class and power struggle between Indigenous[1] and non-indigenous Canadians intensifies, Indigenous women are burdened with both gender and race based abhorrence. There have been numerous cases of Aboriginal women missing, being abused or murdered. A…

Saving Private Ryan is an award winning 1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg that documented D-Day on June 6, 1944 and the atrocities the men in battle went through. The film received 5 Oscars, 74 other rewards, and was nominated for another 74 awards. The film has also been appraised by Royal Marines that played as extras in the film and after the release of the film in 1998 the number of people that visited the American cemetery at St. Laurent increased due to the graphic content that was…

power grid should be at the top of the list. There are many different options that can improve security levels of both a physical and logical nature, such as disk drive encryption, digital certificates, Transport Layer Security (TLS), and Virtual Private Networks. Recommendation: Implement Full Disk Encryption Full disk encryption is the ability to convert data into unreadable code that can only be deciphered by authorized people. The encryption can include almost everything on the system such…

A Hero’s Journey Saving Private Ryan is a film based on the true events that happened during World War 2 against the Germans in France. On June 6th 1944, the lives of many American soldiers changed for the worst. Over many days and nights seven American soldiers lead by Captain John H. Miller set out on a treacherous mission to return Private Ryan, the only living brother left of four back home to his saddened mother in Iowa. The only problem to the situation is that he could be anywhere in…

of most star configurations is hundred megabits of data per second with gigabit hub or switches and NIC cards speeds can be at one thousand megabits per second. In a star topology is possible to have all the important data back ups on the hub in a private folder so if the computers fails, the employees can still use the data using the next computer in the network and accessing the backup files on the hub. If the hub adds a device like a printer all the other computers on the network can access…

Saving Private Should Be Considered a Classic WWII Movie Imagine how it would feel to be trapped behind enemy lines with no communication to base. During the Second World War, this was a reality for paratroopers during D-Day. A movie that tells that story of a paratrooper behind enemy lines is Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg). However, there is a twist to not only being trapped behind enemy lines, but having men come to extract the private to tell him his brothers are dead. Saving Private…

Blood Diamond, directed by Edward Zwick reaped success at many film awards shows, including the 2006 Academy Awards, its reach was worldwide. The film takes place during the civil war in Sierra Leone in the year 1991. The film follows Danny Archer, an ex-mercenary from Zimbabwe and Solomon Vandy, a Mende fisherman. Though both men are African, their pasts and presents are in stark contrast to one another. Through Solomon’s discovery of a rare pink diamond, the prospect of change in both these…

Enemy: A Study of the Subconscious Mind Dennis Villeneuve's Enemy (2014) takes us on a journey through the subconscious mind of a man in the midst of an identity crisis. Jake Gyllenhaal knocks it out of the park with two stellar performances - playing Adam Bell, a mild-mannered history professor and his doppelgänger, Anthony Claire, a suave, self-centered actor. In contrast to Villeneuve and Gyllenhaal's earlier collaboration and mainstream success Prisoners (2013), Enemy relies on symbolism…