...greatness and is a huge honor. That being said, Christopher Columbus should not be bestowed this great honor of Columbus day. Christopher Columbus did terrible things that should not be undermined because he introduced Europe to the New World. In the same way Hitler killed millions of Jews, Christopher Columbus lead to the killing of millions of Native Americans. For example, the Native population of Central Mexico in 1580 was approximately 24 million. By the end of 1680, the population was approximately 2 million. 20 million Native Americans were killed because of Christopher Columbus coming over to America. Celebrating this would send the message that this is okay. That it is okay to commit mass genocide, as long as you find a land mass. It sends the message that it is alright to say ‘finders, keepers’ on land already owned and to kill all those who live there for your own personal profit. In addition to the killing, The Natives were treated inhumanely. Christopher Columbus raped, enslaved and murdered them without mercy. He forced the Natives work in Gold mines until exhaustion and those who refused had their heads chopped off. In addition, the natives of Cicao over the age...
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...America should discontinue the celebration of Columbus Day. This holiday should not be celebrated because of a numerous of reasons. Such as, Christopher Columbus hadn’t discover anything new, he left a barbarous legacy that has been followed over the centuries and he treated the Natives cruelly. Columbus hadn’t discover anything new because people were already there, he didn’t prove the earth is round and he was not the first Non-American to find the New World. Additionally, he had left behind a legacy that had begun genocide and slavery, and one that is the false definition of courage and manliness. Columbus had also treated the Natives cruelly by raping their woman, cutting off their noses and ears and even unleashing greyhounds onto the Natives. America should not celebrate Columbus Day due to his failure to discover anything new. The places that Columbus had...
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...Christopher Columbus sailed for Spain in 1492 and claimed all islands around San Salvador looking for gold. Spain eventually sent Columbus back to create an Empire. America should not celebrate Columbus day because of Columbus cruel punishments towards others, the way he influenced today's world, and the way he did not prove the new world. Christopher Columbus caused cruel punishment by cutting people hands off, making dogs attack the Native Americans, and him and his men would hunt people for sport. Columbus influence today's world through slavery, integration, and genocide. Finally, Columbus did not prove the new world because people already lived in the new world, he never set foot in North America, and he didn’t prove the earth was round. We shouldn’t celebrate Columbus day because of his cruel punishment towards...
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...Columbus day is the day we celebrate the discovering of america. Why do we celebrate Columbus when he did not even step foot on North America. In reality, the Nomads were the first people in America. If we wanted to celebrate a white guy why not Viking explorer Leif Erickson who came 500 years before Columbus. Also, when Columbus landed in the new world he did some horrible things to the natives who lived there. So why do we celebrate such a controversial day? Christopher Columbus sailed to many places but never North America. He landed on many caribbean islands, an island called Hispaniola, south america's coast, and central america. You may be thinking well he still proved the earth was round. Sorry that's incorrect many scientist figured this out long before he sailed and wrote several books about it. According to Valerie Strauss he even owned a copy of one of the books and new very well that the earth was round. The first people to “discover” America were the nomadic tribes who crossed over the land bridge made by the iceage in the Bering Strait. They traveled from Asia into what is...
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...Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer who is well known for “discovering” North America. In reality Christopher was trying to get to China and thought he was in Japan all 4 times he went to North America. He was actually in what is now the Bahamas and Cuba. And really Christopher didn't even discover America. The Native Americans beat Columbus by thousands of years. Many people when they were younger, including myself, were taught that Columbus is a hero and an amazing person who discover the New World. We were all told that Columbus’s purpose for sailing thousands of miles across the Atlantic was to come here in search of undiscovered land. Columbus DID want land, but he was expecting to get that land from...
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...Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and discovered america, but was he the person we say he is? Should we even celebrate Columbus day? Experts say that we shouldn’t, and use examples to prove their point like; Forcing slaves into slavery, bringing new, devastating diseases to the Indians, and he was kicked out of his homeland. Was it right for Columbus to force indians into slavery? The first day Columbus was in the New World, he ordered six of the natives to be seized. In the passage, it says “.. he believed they would be good servants.” The author states that “...Columbus and his men enslaved many native inhabitants of the West Indies…” Is it really right to enslave people at one’s will? When Columbus arrived in the New...
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...How can this day be forgotten? One day in history a curious man named Christopher Columbus was born on October 31, 1451, in Genoa, Italy. As time went on Christopher was living in Portugal. He was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the rule of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. The reason for the voyages was to establish permanent settlement on the island of Hispaniola, which initiated the Spanish colonization in the new world. Back then, everybody thought that the world was flat and said that if he sailed west, he would fall off the face of the earth and die. His proposal to reach the East Indies by sailing towards the west, needed support from the Spanish Crown. He was to find a...
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...Christopher Columbus and his “discovery” of America, has been drilled into elementary students’ heads. As recently as this year, my 1st grader and kindergartner were told that Columbus was the first person to find the United States, and his story was somehow tied into a lesson about Thanksgiving. The reason I bring this up is to show that the myth of Christopher Columbus is still alive and well. Unfortunately, this also proves that many people in the United States don’t understand the true history of this country, or don’t care enough to learn about it. My opinion of Columbus Day is this; just because we’ve made a mistake in the past due to ignorance, doesn’t mean that we should continue to make the same mistake once we’ve learned of our transgressions....
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...Columbus Was a Corrupted Man A while back in third grade, we were taught that Columbus was the first person to discover America, and that everyone loved him because he was a great person. Well guys, he’s actually not the first one to discover America, and he definitely was not a nice guy. He was an arrogant, selfish, rotten brat that got his way all of the time, which a lot of people think is rubbish. He was a greedy invader rather than a brave explorer and didn’t care what anyone thought. We know now that Columbus was not a good man nor a great explorer. Columbus was as fake as the lies going around that he was actually smart enough to find America. Columbus day should not be celebrated because of all of the selfish things he did to better...
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...The Columbus Day Controversy Christopher Columbus has been recognized and praise as a hero since his suppose discovery of America. In which, Christopher Columbus was granted a holiday named Columbus Day after his legacy. To which, Columbus Day is a holiday celebrated on the second monday of October and is celebrated for the sole purpose that his exploration to the “New World” led to the discovery of America. Although many people today still celebrate Columbus Day it has caused great controversy throughout the nation and therefore should be exiled since it is an occasion to be mourned, he is a bad remodel to the American citizenry, and Columbus was a compulsive liar. To begin with, a issue to consider when removing Columbus Day is the fact...
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...America has many a strange holidays including national hammock day and national ice cream day but is Columbus day actually qualified to be a national holiday? There are people on every side of this controversy with some saying Columbus day is as important to American Culture as the bald eagle, others stating it’s derogatory to cultures and facts, and still more who stand in the middle ground. Columbus day should be changed to a more appropriate and accurate holiday. Changing the holiday is the best choice for the United States because Columbus contributed little to none to American culture or history and Columbus Day encourages false facts and history. To start off, Christopher Columbus did not contribute the U.S culture or history. One...
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...Christopher Columbus Hero to Zero America. Land of the free and home of the brave. We as Americans are very proud of our accomplishments. One of the first things we learn as kids is the Pledge of Allegiance. Every morning we recite this poem celebrating America. We are so proud that we dedicate whole days to honor and celebrate our accomplishments. For example, Veterans Day honors veterans and victims of all wars. It also celebrates the end of WWI. Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors and celebrates one of the most powerful and influential civil rights leaders of all time. However, Columbus Day celebrates a murderer, rapist, self centered, slave owner. Why would we want to celebrate him? Columbus Day should not be celebrated because he created negative consequences that still exist to this day....
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...Columbus sailed, and made four voyages in his time. Columbus sailed in 1492 for Spain. We should not celebrate Columbus day because he caused genocide and was extremely cruel. Columbus should not be honored and have a holiday because he caused genocide. One example of this is when Source 1 says “The Indians of the Caribbean were destroyed within two generations”. This shows how many Natives died when Columbus came. Another example is when Source 1 tells us that the Tribe chiefs were roasted. This is telling how Columbus killed many of the chiefs. One more example of columbus causing genocide is when Source 2 states “Used twenty wild Greyhounds to attack the Natives”. This shows only one of the many ways that Columbus caused the Natives...
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...Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain? I think that Columbus day should be renamed. By having a day named after Christopher Columbus, people think that that he is a great person and he discovered the country we live in today, but that is not true because Christopher Columbus is a selfish person and only explored for his own benefit. In my opinion Columbus is a villain and we should either rename the holiday or just demolish it all together. Columbus Day celebrates the landing of Columbus at the New World. The holiday first took place in 1792 for the 300th anniversary, but it became a federal holiday in 1937. People dress up in costumes and dance to Native American music all for a very selfish man. The first piece of proof that Christopher...
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...Christopher Columbus: The Original American Hero? Was Columbus a hero or a villain? Maybe it’s neither. Columbus was brave and daring, and did things that were important to world history. But he wasn’t heroic in the sense of displaying great moral qualities. Courage, while generally a good character trait, isn’t necessarily heroic or even highly honorable and praiseworthy unless it’s deployed in certain kinds of actions or causes. But he also wasn’t especially villainous in the sense of displaying particular evil qualities. His arrival in the Americas caused a great deal of death to American Indians, chiefly from disease. And it caused the subjugation and literal or virtual enslavement of the Indians. But this didn’t stem from Columbus’s being an unusually evil person. It stemmed from the brutality of the time, coupled with the contact between one culture that was much more powerful than another (and that carried many communicable diseases to which members of the other culture lacked resistance). I’m inclined to say that we shouldn’t celebrate Columbus Day, precisely because such national celebrations should be focused on honoring people who did things that were both especially important and especially honorable (such as veterans, President Washington, or Martin Luther King, Jr.) and not just on people who did things that were especially important. This might conceivably include not-necessarily-good people who did things that were unambiguously good. But European expansion...
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