Alan Paton

V for Vendetta is a story about a man’s quest to not only avenge the wrong doings of his totalitarian government but also to liberate his society from its state of enforced conformity. The movie depicts a fascist government that rules under the guise of God and has come into being after a period of war, famine and disease hit the country. The fear that follows this period causes the people to give in to this government which in return provides them with a false sense of security and complacency…

Watchmen in graphic novel form does an amazing job at presenting many different themes about ethics, the weight of war, and even drawing to light how well the different aspects of graphic novels can work together. While the themes, and main plot of the novel and film are similar, some pieces of the story are either lost, or completely thrown away. In “Watchmen As Literature”, Sanders discusses how each aspect, especially the visual aspects in a novel like Watchmen is planned carefully, and not…

Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is arguably the most critically acclaimed graphic novel of our time, and for good reason. What makes Watchmen so compelling is it offers many different things to discuss. It can be read as a traditional comic book but at the same time gives the reader insight on end of the world scenarios, and shows us what life may be like with actual superheroes, given the realistic back stories of the characters, Watchmen has a unique complexity that can be discussed in…

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…

The comic book, Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is filled with numerous aspects of deconstruction from each character to the overall story to the layout of comic. One character that tears apart the traditional superhero is Rorschach. He is far from the traditional superhero in many ways such as how he became a superhero, his physical appearance, his costume, and his methods. These traits are either over emphasized or deemphasized by Moore to break the mold of the traditional superhero.…

Homeshake is the product of Peter Sagar, a solo artist who has put his own style of music into a couple of albums such as The Homeshake Tape and Midnight Snack, yet his recently released set of songs from Fresh Air seemed to slow everything down and not in the best way. Peter Sagar produced a very different sound of music when he released his first album The Homeshake Tape. The best description of his sound comes from an interview with Northern Transmissions noting, “Peter Sager, who blends R&B…

In the film ‘V for Vendetta’ directed by James McTeigue, protagonists V and Evey try to create a revolution against their corrupt government; we are presented the idea that you can’t be an individual when oppressed. This is displayed in the prison scene, where we see Evey being captured and tortured. She finds the letter of the life of a previous inmate, Valerie, and are shown her life and how she was captured for being homosexual. McTeigue used the aspects of high angle shots, lighting,…

The 1999 film by Andy and Lana Wachowski, The Matrix, introduced a generation to an important epistemological question: How can a person be certain of what his senses tell him about the world he lives in? This question, explored modernly in the film by portraying reality as nothing more than a computer simulation implanted into humans’ sensory receptors by a race of intelligent super-computers, is nevertheless an idea that has intrigued philosophical thinkers for many ages. For example, in 1641,…

and one of them was Alan Turing. Alan Mathison Turing was born on June 23 1912 to Julius Mathison and Ethel Sara Turing. He had one older brother named John. At 13 years of age he was sent to Sherborne School, a large boarding school in Dorset. The school’s education system gave his free-range scientific mind little encouragement. He would do advanced work on his own time to challenge himself. At school he made a friend, Christopher Morcom who was older. Christopher helped Alan to open up and…

Introduction Business Intelligence is a technology that is used to gather,store,access and analyzing data to help business users in making better decisions on the other hand Artificial Intelligence is a way to make a computer,a computer-controlled robot,or a software that think intelligently like humans.Artificial Intelligence is based on the study that how human thinks,learn,decide and work in order to resolve an issue and then using the outcome of this study as a basis of developing…