Christopher Cox

When you hear the name Christopher Columbus you think of the man who discovered “The New Land”, which we now know as America, but is that all he’s done? The great explorer has had many other discoveries for us and done. He has done way more in his lifetime than any of us would ever think to do in ours. With that being said he’s a great man at sea, he’s been on four voyages, and during one of those voyages was the discovery of The New World. Most people would say he is a great and heroic man, but…

Into the Wild describes the story of Christopher McCandless. He hitchhiked in 1992 to Alaska where he was found dead four months later in a deserted bus in the Alaskan wilderness. Author Jon Krakauer uses accounts from people who interacted with Chris and personal research to account the story of Alex Supertramp, another name proclaimed by Chris. The book starts with the description of Chris’s last day in society before starting his journey in the Alaskan wild. It shifts to the events that led…

There were many consequences of the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus both good and bad but in the end the evidence leans toward the good outweighing the bad overall in the effects that Columbus’ journey and discovery had on the world both old and new. Some of the beneficial consequences, which were mostly one sided in the direction of the Europeans, that happened because of the discovery were the “Columbian exchange” of agricultural produce and animal stocks, the massive…

history. In the times of the columbian exchange, there were many items of distribution that had been transferred between the Americas and the rest of the world. There were many significant people including Motolinía, Bartolomé de Las Casas and Christopher Columbus that were part of this expansive and adventerous exchange between worlds. Even today we still recognize these few people as either influential people or ones of negative influence. The Columbian Exchange…

Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain? As October comes rolling around, the famous Christopher Columbus is being remembered for his discovery of the Americas. The hero Columbus, some would say, gathered his courage, and set sail to the West Indies, and unknowingly discovered a whole new continent after being at sea for weeks. If these people who call Columbus a hero knew of the evil crimes that he has committed, then the opinions and the perspectives of these people would change drastically.…

King Ferdinand never would have guessed in his wildest dreams that he would stumble onto something greater—the New World. Although King Ferdinand died centuries ago, his memory is forever immortalized around the discovery of America, along with Christopher Columbus, the legendary Italian explorer. Soon after the discovery of the Western hemisphere, Europe began to colonize, explore, and conquest the New World, a mystifying place filled with new possibilities. Throughout history, I believe that…

Christopher Columbus was not the man many tell him to be. As a society, we tend to look at all the great and glorious things he did, most notably discovering the Americas. Almost all of the time, however, we do not look at all the negatives, which there are arguably many more of. These include his harsh treatment of natives, thirst for wealth and the terrible acts he committed as governor of the Indies. Upon first reaching the natives, Columbus describes them as very friendly, extremely willing…

most people assume. People believe McCandless’ death was stupid, reckless, and it disrespected the land he wanted to live off due to him traveling with very little resources, disappearing from his family, and eventually leading to his fatal death. Christopher McCandless went on adventure to find a purpose of life. His father expected so much from McCandless that he wanted him to go to college and so he did. McCandless was pressured to do what his family wanted and not what he wanted. Therefore,…

Was the pain Chris McCandless brought to his loved ones justified? “Nothing was more important to Chris than truth. He believed strongly that absolute truth should be part of everything you do in this life.” (Carine McCandless) To those who knew Christopher McCandless, he was a charming young man with a bright future ahead of him. He was brimming with self-confidence and had a profound respect for nature. During the May of 1990, after graduating from Emory University as a top athlete with high…

panel on his doors tells a different section of Columbus’ life. Howard Zinn addresses European colonization of the New World in the first chapter of his book, A People’s History of the United States. Although both Rogers and Zinn tell a story of Christopher Columbus, their stories depict contrasting idea. Randolph Rogers’ portrayal of Columbus shows him as an idealized and glorified person, but Rogers does show some elements of Columbus that display him as someone who is not heroic, but instead…