Fellows of the Royal Society

Reginald Mitchell (1895 -1937) Introduction Reginald Joseph Mitchell was an English aeronautical engineer born on May 20, 1895 in Talke, Staffordshire and died of cancer on June 11, 1937 in Portswood, Hampshire. He was married to Florence Dayson in 1918. They had a child called Gordon Mitchell who later wrote two books about his father titled “R.J. Mitchell: World Famous Aircraft Designer” and “R.J.Mitchell: Schooldays to Spitfire”. Early life and Career Reginald Mitchell went to…

Palladianism did. Robert was born on3rd of July 1728 in Kirkraldy,Fife, Scotland, he is the second son of William Adam a prominent architect in Scotland in that time, his family moved to Edinburgh later the same year he was born, he attended the Royal high school of Edinburgh in 1734 at the age of six, in 1743 e enrolled in the university of Edinburgh but he abandoned his studies after two only two years…

The Australian indigenous youth are a minority of the overall Australian youth, just 4.2% of the entire youth’s population (ABS, 2012), they continue to face many daily challenges while growing up in modern Australian society. To understand the issues the indigenous youth face, the two films Yolngu Boy and Black Chicks Talking were watched. This essay will discuss the main cultural influences and how aboriginal Australians are connected by their own and western cultures, the reasons for the…

lies beyond the eyes can perceive in a being. The movie illustrates characters that are relatable to self and Asian society. As we explore the Chinese ancestry in the class we watch the movie as a reflection of Confucianism and Taoism prevailing in traditions of China. The characters in the movie portray various attributes to paint the picture of China as a self-regulating society. As the movie begins, Li Mubai returns from his retreat and visits Shu Lien. He was searching for Tao to attain…

“Invisible Man” is a novel written during the 1930’s. Written by a black author, Ralph Ellison, it could be seen as an attempt to illuminate the invisibility pertaining to the social difficulties faced by blacks. Central to this attempt are the motifs of invisibility and blindness. Ellison demonstrates these different, physical and mental states on different levels through allegories depicting the real acts of savage black people were subjected to. In this essay I will discuss how Ellison…

support from historians, some psychiatrists and, surprisingly, The Royal Society. With the support of the play and film The Madness of King George by the former historian Alan Bennett and the composition Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies, the diagnosis has gained general acceptance.” Recent papers have shed light on the kings’s actual mental illness. For Example, Timothy peters, an honorary senior research fellow at University of Birmingham, had used OPCRIT and found that King…

evolution of humanity, which began “with a barbarous tribe, […] [progressing] towards an economic aggregation of the whole human race, growing ever more heterogeneous in respect of the separate functions.” Thus, Spencer applied Darwinism to European society by disparaging the weak, poor, and unsuccessful in hopes of propagating a more intelligent and successful posterity. With nationalism in mind, this idea afforded an immense degree of power to extremists. In some cases, popular nationalism…

The female characters in Sir Gawain and The Kreen Knight are of royal blood as opposed to the Wife of Bath and her tale’s loathly lady who are self made; the Lady Bertilak is viewed as beautiful and good as opposed to the Wife of Bath whose reputation is tainted by impurity. Other differences, include the Wife of Bath’s…

In this time period he became extremely rich. In 1703, he was elected president of the Royal Society and was re-elected each year until his death. Then in 1705, he was knighted by Queen Anne, the first scientist to be so honored for his work. (Sir Isaac Newton) Apart from these outstanding positions he held many more, like in 1667 he was a fellow of the Trinity College in Cambridge, and in 1699 he became a mathematics professor at Cambridge (smith). In the year 1704…

a theory without knowledge to the specific topic. William Harvey Created one of the most useful theories to ever exist about the how the blood circulation works. If William Harvey had not created this method using these 4 factors then modern day society would be completely different ad that is why William Harvey was and will always be known as one of the best physicians to ever…