The Imitation Game

          

         

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          Whoever would have thought that one single machine and a whole lot of calculus could save millions of lives and end one of the bloodiest wars in world history?  The Imitation Game is a movie that is all about how a small handful of men and a woman saved millions of lives and an estimated 2 yeas of battle by breaking one of the hardest codes to ever exist, the enigma code.  Enigma was used by the Germans for all communication during the war.  Now anyone could receive the messages they were sent flying through the air all day.  It was decoding what the messages said that was the hard part.  The codes we simply one letter would mean another letter for example M=W but when you did this for all the letters and characters they claimed that there were 159,000,000,000,000,000,000 for the code.  Now it sounds like you should be able to get a bunch of people together and figure out the code in no time, but you would be wrong.  Precisely at midnight every night the Germans would change the code and they would have to start all over again from scratch.  This is where our main character Alan Turing came into the equation.  He was hired to be one of the people that would sit at a desk and try to figure out what the code was for that day, but Turning had other plans.  He wanted to build the first computer ever in existence or what he named Christopher.  The story of these men and woman who single handedly played god during the war is an inspirational story of hard work and determination.

          When it comes to my opinion of the movie I loved the movie.  I had no idea what Enigma was and always thought that the war was won by pure man power.  I would have never guessed that there were half a dozen men sitting in a room for 4 years doing math and building the most complicated machine to exist at the time.  I highly recommend this movie to anyone who wants to know things about World War 2.  It is a good movie and it is even based off of a book so I’m sure there can be even more to learn if you read the book

Equality? The Real Question of the World

              

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           This blog is intended to be a review of the movie “Dear White People” for my English 202 class.  The movie Dear White People is the story of four black college students that attend the Ivy League school Winchester University.  Winchester was always a predominantly white school and now with the addition of black students some staff and students find it very difficult to deal with the change.  One of the main characters Sam White is a bi racial student that is having a hard time trying to decide where she fits in and what rights she wants to fight for.  She was the sole speaker for the only talk radio on campus called dear white people where she would inform white people about the rules of living with and around the small black community on campus.  When Sam was elected to be head of the Armstrong/Parker house on campus, the all black house on campus, she proceeded to try and block out all non-black folks and those who opposed the black race. At the end of the movie there was a black face party thrown by one of the other houses that was eventually crashed by all the other colored groups on campus.  It wasn’t until this party that a lot of the confusion was sorted out among the students and everyone’s true colors were shown.

          My person opinion of this movie is hard for me to explain.  I had a very hard time following the story line of this movie.  It was confusing and hard to follow along and keep up with all the characters at the same time.  I love the general concept of the movie but it really needed to be given in a different way for me.  I could maybe give this movie like 4 stars out of 10.  I was never once able to fully see the drama and the comedy that this movie was supposed to produce