You will be given a string of characters. Your job is to determine whether the given string is a palindrome. A palindrome is a string that is the same backwards and forwards. For example, the string "racecar" is a palindrome, but the string "apple" is not.

To solve this problem, you can use a simple algorithm. First, reverse the given string. Then, compare the reversed string to the original string. If the two strings are equal, then the given string is a palindrome. Otherwise, the given string is not a palindrome.

Here is an example:

     >>> is_palindrome("racecar")     True     >>> is_palindrome("apple")     False     

Here is the code for the solution:

     def is_palindrome(s):     # Reverse the given string.     s_reversed = s[::-1]     # Compare the reversed string to the original string.     return s == s_reversed