...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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...Columbus day has been celebrated for hundreds of years without dispute. Columbus is responsible for the world we know today, but is it really worth the millions of lives that were lost? Numerous islands were depopulated and their fertile land wasted, and all this because of our so called “Hero”, Christopher Columbus. All across America people are starting to realize that Columbus was not such a great man and those people want Columbus day dropped as a holiday or the name changed. It should be dropped altogether. rename it to something like “Indigenous peoples day” or even “Exploration day. His exploration was responsible for the lives of millions of indigenous people being lost. But while many lives were lost when the indigenous peoples were taken back to Europe, Horses, written language, and religion were brought to The natives.(Text 2 Paragraph 2) These things allowed the natives to not only survive but to thrive.These things are the reason that the natives were so powerful. With the horses and guns the natives could chase much larger game and not only could they catch it, they...
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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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...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 killed and tortured millions of people, yet he has a holiday? Columbus took over the land of the Taino people, enslaved them, tortured them, robbed them, and killed millions of Tainos. This means that every Columbus day we are celebrating the murder of millions of people, which is disgusting, and is why Columbus Day should be abolished. Most people hear the good side of Columbus, that he was an “extraordinary man who. has united in his character every trait. He has made great proficiency in geography, astronomy, and drawing. His courage and perseverance has been put to the severest test, and the exercise of every amiable and heroic virtue rendered him universally known and respected.” according to Joel Barlow. Yes, Columbus was a...
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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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...Arguing why columbus day should not be a recognized holiday. Everyone has grown up hearing the rhyme “In nineteen hundred and forty-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue” And if you haven’t then you probably lucky enough to not have one of those teachers that sing-songs everything at you. Christopher Columbus is often portrayed as the first European to sail to the Americas. He is sometimes portrayed as the discoverer of the New World. However, this is controversial on many counts. There is evidence that the first Europeans to sail across the Atlantic were Viking explorers from Scandinavia. In addition, the land was already populated by indigenous peoples, who had 'discovered' the Americas thousands of years before hand. Let’s take a look back on columbus’...
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...A lot of great nations have rich history of their own, whether it is bad or it is good. The United States of America has great history and tradition, from the Revolutionary War to the occupation of Afghanistan. When people who write about history discuss that of the United States, they often consider how eminent this country is and the great deeds other people of that country have done. Historians who write about the history of America often write about how it has had a share of great heroes from Christopher Columbus, Woodrow Wilson, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, etc.. Nevertheless, historians often seem to not remember to mention the real heroes of America like, for example, John Brown and the Native Americans. Much of the history that historians write about don't always show precision. Since many historians only write about one side of history, it only makes it worse by not revealing the factuality of history and creates an erroneous image of what really took place. Many of our nation's great leaders have been distinguished as individuals who have the best interest of the country and every action they take on behalf of the country befittingly. For instance, in the book, Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen, he writes, "Under [president] Wilson, the United States intervened in Latin America more often than at any other time in our history." (Loewen, 16). What reason did the United States have to start an intervention in countries that...
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...Columbus Not A Man Worth Honoring? Is Christopher Columbus not worth honoring? Why would anyone ask that question, well it's because of a lot of reasons. First of all he did NOT discover the New World the Native American did. Second of all Columbus was actually a horrible man who is extremely egotistical. Everyone knows who Christopher Columbus is and why he is important to history. He's important because he was the first man to “ discover the New World ” so of course he's made a big contribution to history. He evan has his own holiday called Columbus day every year on October 10th. Most kids learning about Columbus think it's interesting that he discovered America, I did before I learned the truth about Columbus. It's turns out that Columbus didn’t discover The New World first and also he didn’t ssil to prove the world was round because most people in Europe know the world wasn’t flat. Columbus also happened to be very egotistical and abusive to his crew. Christopher Columbus should not be considered a hero for discovering America but he should be acclaimed for making a map to get from America and Europe....
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...Every year on the second Monday of October, Columbus Day is celebrated. You have a day off from school and no one thinks about why we celebrate Columbus Day. When you ask anyone why we observe Columbus Day, they will most likely tell you about the land he obtained, but they will leave out all of the horrible things he did to the Natives. Many people argue about whether or not Columbus Day should be considered a federal holiday. Based on facts, Columbus day should not be considered a federal holiday, because of the harsh ways Columbus carried out his actions. Although he obtained a vast amount of land, he didn’t take it peacefully, he tormented and tortured the Native Americans. This lead to many Natives dying. He made them do many labours...
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...word "holiday" literally translates to "holy day", because mainly holidays are celebrated for religious purposes, but most American holidays are not religious. Many holiday's are just traditions from America's rich ethnic history. Some holidays are also celebrated for certain important people in American history, people like Christopher Columbus. In 1905, Colorado became the first state to observe a Columbus Day, and over the next few decades other states followed. In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announced every October 12 as Columbus Day. Since 1971, it has been celebrated on the second Monday in October. Columbus Day commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the New World on October 12, 1492. Columbus was believed...
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...“Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred ninety-two.” This has been the summary of our knowledge of the so-called “hero” up until now. He’s the man who discovered America, right? So, why aren’t we The United States of Columbus? This question has always intrigued me, yet I have never been able to answer it. The most shocking part of the article we read was the fact that Columbus enslaved Native Americans. We learned that he paved the way for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, but who would have imagined that he actually enslaved people himself? Not only was he arrogant enough to die still believing he had discovered a new and quicker route to Asia, but he also treated the “Indians” in a wicked and perverse way. Columbus...
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...Elea Archuleta Professor Stern English 101 & October 14 th, 2024 ISearch Paper My Question We all know “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue” but what happened after that can be a bit unclear. In recent years, as the full story of Columbus Day has come to surface, many now criticize the celebration of Columbus. He who was once seen as a heroic explorer, is now viewed as a symbol of colonialism and oppression against the Native American populations. This shift in perspective has led to the establishment of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a holiday to honor the Native American people and replace the traditional holiday. This year, as I'm enjoying another long holiday weekend in recognition of Colombus Day, I cannot help but wonder, "Who was...
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...Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain? Professors and poets gave their thought about Columbus through social, intellectual, and geographical influences. Columbus and his crew were cruel and greedy towards the Indians. Columbus enslaved many Indians and tried getting their gold. Columbus was responsible for over 50 million Indian deaths, which many people are not aware of. The Indians welcomed Columbus and his crew willingly to trade what they had for anything Columbus was willing to trade. Columbus started to gather information about a king in an island, which whom possessed large amounts of gold. Finding out this information and discovering gold was way more important to Columbus than building a relationship with the Native Americans....
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...portrayal of famed explorers like Christopher Columbus and the exclusion of the achievements of other cultures and races. To prove this falsification, we have this quote, “Most textbooks note the increase in international trade and commerce, and some relate the rise of nation-states under monarchies. Otherwise, they do a poor job of describing the changes in Europe that led to the Age of Exploration.” (35). According to this quote, the portrayal of the origins of Age of Exploration is poorly described in many textbooks. Often textbooks miss out on important information crucial to our education of the past. Another example would be the quote “When textbooks...
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