Columbus

For most people growing up in the Americas, Columbus is not just a historical personage. He is also a cultural icon who carries many burdens. He is alternately a hero for his voyages of exploration, the founder of a new race by inaugurating colonialism, and the person who initiated the devastation of native civilizations. Columbus…

Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain? Contrasting Images of the Man Too much ambition and desire for self-fulfillment are the reasons why Christopher Columbus has been viewed in two sharply contrasting lights ever since he made his infamous voyages to the New World up to this day. Columbus is a man who has been posthumously been…

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery was released in 1992, and was directed by John Glen, who is famous for his earlier James Bonds works. This was the last project of the father and son production team of Alexander and Ilya Salkind and it was based on the famous historical voyage of Columbus, an Italian-born Spanish navigator,…

Christopher Columbus was a man who much credit was given to for a very small deed. In fact he discovered a new world, but that world was only new to him and the men of his previous generations. What about the many Native Americans whose fathers and father’s fathers shed their blood for the land…

People can classify Columbus in many different forms; a ere, a villain, or even a leader to the people around him in his time. Due to the support of the documents presented and other historical evidence, I see Columbus more as a villain, for the way the natives were treated and how Columbus Day came…

On the second Monday of October we all celebrate Columbus Day, commemorating the discovery of American lands by European navigators in 1492. For many years the personality of Christopher Columbus has been surrounded with global public controversy, partially due to the lack of available historical evidence about his life and activity, as well as due…

A person or group who expresses notions of dominance and superiority to people of other nations is known as an imperialist. Imperialism is the taking over of foreign lands to establish power. Christopher Columbus was an Italian Spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean searching for a route to Asia but instead fell…

The thing I remember most about reading this paper was how surreal the author makes it sound.You just want to keep telling yourself that this could not have happened because of how brutal, and sadistic it sounded.Once you realize that this could be in fact true, you wonder how this could ever happen.It is too…

To the “ politically correct, ” the five-hundredth day of remembrance of the find of America is no cause for jubilation. And even before 1992 began, their protests resulted in a important triumph: the naming of an American Indian as co-grand marshal in the 1992 Rose Parade. Parade functionaries caved in to critics, who denounced…

The spirit and values of a nation are reflected in the nation’s heroes. Christopher Columbus has been regarded as an American hero since 1792. Every year Columbus Day is held on the second Monday in October to honor the man and his legacy. However, many people debate whether or not Columbus Day should be celebrated….