James Hutton

(Young). One prominent Scottish Enlightenment figure was James Hutton (1726-1797), who worked as a lawyer, geologist, chemist, physician, farmer, and naturalist during his lifetime. Hutton, along with other significant Enlightenment figures, Joseph Black and Adam Smith, founded the Oyster Club. This intellectual club was based in Edinburgh and supplied a situation where a plethora of ideas from various topics could be discussed (Furniss). Hutton began his studies in Edinburgh, matriculating into the

James Hutton: The Father of Modern Geology By: Yining Liu Science Period 5 James Hutton James Hutton was a geologist whose ideas changed the views of geology so much so that he is often referred to as “the father of modern geology.” He wrote an amazing book that is still pretty well-received up to this day. All of this started one normal day in Edinburgh, Scotland. On June 3, 1726, James Hutton was born to a family of merchants. Although his

James Hutton was born on June 3, 1726 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He had a son named James Smeaton Hutton. His father was named William Hutton was a merchant and the city's treasurer. When Hutton was only three his father passed away. Only leaving his mother, Sarah Balfour, who was a housewife. Huttons mother showed most interest in the education of James and his three other sisters. He also had an older brother but had died at a very young age. At the age of ten James started classes at Edinburgh

for uniformitarianism can be seen in rocks, sediment, and even in fossil records (Baker, 1998). The earth has different layers, and different things are buried within those layers. People who adhere to the old earth secular view believe that different layers of rock and sediment were formed over many years. Since some areas of the earth have many different layers, it makes sense that it would have taken a long time to form. Other evidence exists with fossils (Baker, 1998). There are many different

EMBA Organisational Behaviour Coursework – Analysis of BBC 1. Analyse the culture of the BBC at the time that Dyke took over. To what degree is it facilitating the success of the BBC? The BBC was set up in 1922 as a public service broadcaster. The BBC quickly became a household name and played a part in shaping British culture. Company culture is the values and beliefs shared by the members of a ‘group’ and the BBC is a ‘group’ which has both internal (BBC employees) and

Recovering from trauma is often a difficult and painstaking journey. In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye and the movie Ordinary People, two characters named Holden Caulfield and Conrad Jarrett struggle with their lives in their own bildungsromans, stories about the coming of age. When their brothers die, both Holden and Conrad suffer emotional trauma which causes them to push people away. These episodes complicate their efforts to connect with people and further meddle with their recovery from the

the rest of the way to her front door. The young woman opened up her door and immediately felt that sense of uneasiness again even though her home was full of light. She could hear the water running in the bathroom and figured that her boyfriend, James, was just taking his usual night shower. She went into the kitchen to get a quick drink of water. As she drank the cool liquid she felt an immense feeling of relief. She advanced toward the bathroom. She walked down the hallway heading towards the

There the 4 of us were sitting in New York at a bar when an army recruit comes over to us and says “Do you want to make your country a better place?”.Then he says “Join the army right now all I need is your name and home address. Jack and Fred said they had wanted to sign up since kids but were scared. So we all signed the paper and gave him what he needed. We all went home in the city as normal working men that got drunk most nights out the week. After two days of signing up to join the army we

March 22, 2006, should have been a regular Wednesday for me. Me being in first grade, a regular Wednesday was to wake up at 8 a.m. to my father turning on my lights, and spiritedly but annoyingly singing, “Wake up, wake up!” Wincing at the light and my father's terrible voice, I was always able to wake up in order to shut him up. However, the most memorable part of this day was not during school but rather what happened later that day at home. It was my father’s birthday. My father was turning 33

“The Curse Which Still Lived” It was a depressing and grey afternoon. James had just turned twenty-five, and as adventurous as he was, he anxiously waited for a task. Next thing he knew, he has found himself scrolling on an LED screen which entranced him as if he knew nothing more. There he sat, alone in his dusty old room looking through various websites for interesting locations near him. His fingers stopped with a jerk. A picture of a castle intrigued him as he stared at the blinding screen