Fellows of the Royal Society

significance, ranging from scurvy to loss of direction. Nevertheless, without half of the technological advances of today's society, Columbus still successfully infected the new world with culture, order, and disease. Even a few of today’s luxuries could have had a strong impact overall of Christopher Columbus’s career. Christopher Columbus’s voyage was less than pleasant for him and his fellow passengers. The lack of vitamin C put the lives of all aboard in danger. Scurvy was widespread in…

Having the courage to take responsibility for others’ is arguably one of the most noble qualities one can possess. The King’s Speech presents a social issue of how withdrawing from one’s responsibility can affect not only themselves but also other individuals around them. In the film, King Edward VIII decided to renounce his crown, leaving the British Empire with no head of state. Being second-in-line, it now up to Prince Albert to stand up and take his nation’s vacant throne and be King.…

The story contained within “Battle Royal”, the first chapter of Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, is massively psychologically complex. From the implications of imagery to the mentalities of the characters who willingly undergo intense physical pain, Ellison’s story is laden with layers of meaning. The largest contributing factor to the psychology of the piece, though, the purpose and effect of the narrator’s grandfather’s dying words on the young man throughout his life and the events of the…

When Christy arrives and tells them that he has murdered his own father the reaction of the other characters to the news is very shocking. When Christy says he has killed his father, Philly, another man drinking in the bar says “there’s a daring fellow”. (The Playboy of the Western World. P. 11). The characters are not shocked that he has killed his father and offer to help keep him safe from the law, Pegeen on hearing Christy has committed murder says that they should hire him in the bar;…

Rome and all of her influence is declining. I fear for those whom live in the very heart of Italy and her fellow surrounding provinces. The man power is declining. To many Roman men have lost their lives to fellow Romans. What example are we setting up for the commoners who see one of the pinnacles of roman society, aristocrat, killing aristocrat. Commoners are already at their breaking point. The Punic wars have drove us into the collapse of the commoners. Those whom had the land were drafted…

truly flourish as a society, but following the French and Indian War, the British government made mistakes that took a good relationship where the colonials were proud to be part of the British Empire and spoiled it which eventually led to a Revolution. If Great Britain would have made superior decisions, the association between the two could have stayed healthy; a revolution possibly may not have taken place, and America may not have declared independence and broken away. The Royal…

is to keep the black community in the dark to the harsh realities they are facing. Once the reader sees this, they will think to themselves if other people are purposely trying to blind them into think that there is no injustice in their current society. Furthermore, Reverend Homer A. Barbee is a blind preacher who delivers a sermon before the narrator’s college. Barbee’s blindness represents how he is unaware of the current injustices facing blacks. He still believes that the mission of the…

defended the frontier vision that was different from the ideas of late colonial society. This book seeks to understand why Piedmont Farmers fought for the Regulation cause, risking their farms, the well-being of their families, and their lives. The North Carolina Regulation cultivated from the confusion and…

The short story that I decided to analyze is Ralph Ellison’s Battle Royal. This short story to me implied how in essence, we are not so different from our (black people) slave ancestors. A quote in the story where he says, “I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed.” This quote epitomized the whole short story for me. It displayed how different the invisible man point of view was from when he was narrating the…

Reign of Terror By 1700s France was recognized as Europe’s most advanced country with foreign trade, large population, and raising culture. Even through everything seemed great unrest was rising between the three estates. This unrest in France’s society came from the poor conditions of the third estate, which was 97 percent of the population. The unfair conditions of the three estates lead to new-enlightened ideas, the French Revolution, and the Reign of Terror. Before the revolution France…