Christopher Browning

When Chris first began his journey to the wild, he caught Jim Gallien’s eye while walking on the side of an Alaskan highway. Gallien offered Chris a ride, and shortly into their conversation he learned considerable amount concerning Chris’s plans to live in the Alaskan wilderness. According to Gallien, it was easy to notice how lacking Chris was in terms of supplies and knowledge about where he was going and what exactly he was getting himself into. For his time in the wilderness, Chris only…

In school, children are taught about the great adventurer Christopher Columbus and how he discovered the New World. People learned to lionize him as the hero who discovered the country of America, but what’s never mentioned is that Christopher Columbus is not what Americans are lead to believe. The facts that are missing from history books is that he was a slave owner, a murderer, cruel, and greedy. If he possessed all of these terrible traits, then why is there a day dedicated to him? No good…

Over the years, several people have learned and been taught that Christopher Columbus was the first person to find America. However, America was found by several different people before Christopher Columbus came to what is now known to be called the United States of America. For example, Vikings, Aztecs, and Cherokee Indians were a few of the people that came before Columbus and lived in America. After Christopher Columbus, who was exploring for Spain, told who he was working for what he had…

Gwyneth Murphy Economic Motivation Religion took a backseat to economy as a primary motivation for European exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries. For a long time Europe focused their energy inward, and the contact with other civilizations was limited, however this all changed when Europe embarked on a series of expeditions. The desire for wealth, and the expansion of growth in spice trade controlled the international exchange trade, and the Portuguese dominated this market. With this…

Celebrating Columbus day is a very big debate in the states right now. Did you know only about 23 states actually celebrate Columbus day as a federal holiday? I think that we are celebrating a bad day in our history because today is the day Columbus found a place where he murdered and use people and we're celebrating today. The U.S. should not celebrate Columbus day. My thesis is true because Columbus didn’t really discover America. According to _________ many people have already come and gone…

The saint I find most adorable is Saint Maria Goretti. Saint Maria was born on October 16, 1890. She was a young adolescent when he father, Luigi Goretti had passed away. Maria was faced with a very overwhelming and tough position to fill. She had to help her mother take care of the house hold and act as another parent figure. She learned that she need to grow up fast and take on these responsibilities and help her family. The story of Saint Maria Goretti is she was in the house one day…

countries around those main areas. Christopher Columbus decided to sail West to try and reach India and China without having to go all the way around Africa. Little did he know that by sailing West from Europe, he'd arrive in the Bahamas only 33 days after leaving. Originally, he believed he had landed on an Asian Island. When he realized what he had discovered, he sailed back to Europe. Word of the New World spread quickly across Europe and to the other countries. Christopher Columbus and many…

In Alfred Crosby’s Ecological Imperialism the Biological Expansion of Europe, 900 – 1900, he talks about Europe’s expansion over the last centuries, which has come to change life almost everywhere in the world today. Crosby supports his argument in several different ways, which were all through historical roots about the world. He started with Pangaea, which refers to how the earth exists 200 million years ago when the entire continents were one landmass and when dinosaurs were roaming about.…

The wild was a place where Chris Mccandless was able to let go of everything, he believed that Ron would find the same peace as well as happiness if he explored just a bit. Throughout the book there is plenty of evidence where Mccandless shows that he doesn’t really need to be social or need new things to be happy. At first, I feel as if he didn’t convince Ron that there was a lot to explore, until he got attracted to Chris and saw the kind of person he was. Chris does provide evidence about his…

In the United States many people celebrate a national holiday by the name of Columbus day. Christopher Columbus was the first European to step foot in America. Since he did this, in the 1930s it became a holiday in several countries. Numerous people think that Columbus doesn’t deserve this kind of honor, because of the fact that other people discovered America and the way he treated the Native Americans. Examples of this are from the article “Columbus Doesn’t Deserve a Holiday.” In this…