The Imitation Game is set During World War II and follows Alan Turing‚ British mathematician as he is enlisted to try to break German codes encrypted using Enigma machines. It shows the process through which Turing worked to crack the code. When Britain declares war on Germany in 1939‚ Turing joins a cryptography team‚ led by Commander Denniston‚ aiming to crack ciphers created by Enigma machines‚ which the Nazis use to provide security for their radio messages. Turing prefers to work alone‚ considering
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Name: Aakriti A. Sharma Course : IENG 452 : Introduction to Six Sigma Title : Lab report on The (Root) Beer Game Summary : The Beer Game provides an insight into the supply chain in real world. It is played amongst a retailer‚ wholesaler‚ distributor and factory. The main objective of the game is to minimize the total costs of the supply chain and avoid backlogs. Communication between the four departments is not allowed. The retailer is the only person who knows the actual order
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The scratchy collar symbolizes the entrapment of Waverly by her mother. Waverly’s hobby of chess is important to her and her mother “[has] a habit of standing over [her] while [she] [plots] out [her] games.” (p.98) This habit of Waverly’s mother is a symbol of how she controls Waverly. As her mother stands over Waverly‚ it displays her as a dominant figure and shows that Waverly should be submissive and obedient towards her. Waverly’s mother expects her to listen to everything she says and not have
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What makes someone “crazy”? Is it being outlandish and flamboyant? Does the person have to have a mental disorder? Can it come from a person’s strict adherence to “norms”? In the short story “Game‚” Donald Barthelme considers all of these questions. The story depicts two men‚ an unnamed narrator and Shotwell‚ who are trapped in some type of bunker‚ and they have been there for 133 days due to an “oversight.” After such a long time confined in a single space‚ the men start to act “strangely‚” but
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Rohinton Mistry’s short story “Of White Hairs and Cricket” and in Anita Desai’s short story “Games at Twilight‚” the protagonists both experience childhood differently‚ but they arrive at the same conclusion about their insignificance. Both narrators talk about how making independent choices can be both harmful and protective‚ but maintaining strong family relationships is crucial. Though the narrator in “Games at Twilight” is younger than the narrator in “Of White Hairs and Cricket”‚ they both face
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educational video game? An educational video game is a video game that provides educational value to the player. Including reading‚ writing‚ calculation‚ and history or science. Why do we need these games? We need them because they help us have better critical thinking in school. They also help us in timing for example in some games you have to do the fastest time and if we don’t we will lose. Students learn through the process of playing the game. By playing educational video games students can learn
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three‚ four or five. (The more players‚ the more challenging the leadership exercise.) Each team assigns one leader. The rest of the team members get blindfolded. The team leader hands the rest of their team a rope which is several feet long. When the game begins the leader calls out different shapes‚ such as circles‚ triangles and squares‚ which the rest team must make while blindfolded. The leader can use their voice to direct players to where they need to position the rope in order to complete the
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Everdeen‚ protagonist from the “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins‚ showing her anger to the gammakers who were ignoring her during her first training session. The story is set in a futuristic apocalypse in which the United States has been separated into 13 Districts‚ all of which struggle to survive under the harsh dictatorship of the Capitol (The government). Being supported by almost all the district 12 with an old rare gesture when she was picked up for the games & being ignored by the gamemakers when
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War Is Not a Game Etgar Keret’s “Not Human Beings” is the story of Schmulik Stein‚ a soldier who is young and jaded by the realities of death and violence. As an officer during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict‚ he is forced to recognize the serious nature of conflict he is involved in when he is recruited to go with Israeli border patrol officers. He is then put to the greatest test of all‚ to dehumanize‚ stand his ground and witness things he may never be able to forget. At the end of the story
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¡§Texts both inform us of the social identities available to us‚ and problematize them; both police our social selves and subvert them.¡¨ Both texts‚ The Crying Game by Neil Jordan and Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas‚ use characters within the discourse to project social identities that have been problematized due to social constraints. Throughout this essay‚ I will focus on sexuality‚ as this type of social identity has been depicted as a central theme in both texts. The characters
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