Christopher Knight

wants to show the side of history that isn 't so heroic as some of the books show it to be. With that in mind, chapter one starts off with the native americans and what happened to them because of European expansion. This starts with the arrival of Christopher Columbus. The story usually told is that Columbus shows up, discovers America, and is deemed a hero. Unfortunately, history is not all gold and glory. Zinn describes how the natives swam out to meet Columbus, gave him anything he wanted,…

September 2015 The Life of a Greater Sailor In 1451, the birth of a son into a textile artisan’s family in Genoa, Italy marks the beginning of a new generation. The father, Domenico Columbus, and the mother, Susanna Fontanarossa, named this baby Christopher Columbus. As the eldest child in his family, Columbus is deemed by many as the most influential person in the world base on his pioneering travels, exploring and cartography. During Columbus’s childhood, he helped his family to weave…

example of a culture collision would be the Portuguese’s interactions with the West Africans. The Portuguese were in search of slaves from Guinea. They came across many parts and many Guineas people in which they all were ready for a fight. Christopher Columbus addressed King Ferdinand in a letter he had written about his first few experiences with the native people of Spain. When he arrived…

Chris McCandless died alone in the Alaskan wild while living completely off of the land. “Some readers admired the boy immensely for his courage and noble ideals:” while “: others fulminated that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity-and was undeserving of the considerable media attention he received” (Krakauer xi). These quotes represent the feelings of many who read Into The Wild, but most people ignore the important aspects of Chris…

by an ominous creature. These fears and false beliefs of the world kept many people from pursuing a life at sea. Although there were many uncharted parts of the ocean, there was competition for wealth among the European nations. This motivated Christopher Columbus, a Genoese sea captain, to make an audacious journey. As he set sailed for his journey, he decided…

What Happened to the American Dream? “The U.S worked hard to create the American dream of opportunity. Joseph Stiglitz a Nobel prize recipient and an economic professor at Columbia University said, but today that dream is a myth”(Picchi). The “American Dream” is a concept used to describe the American lifestyle. The idea of the American Dream has been imbedded in our heads as the ultimate goal and definition of success. The media, the T.V shows and the books push it in our head what our…

The Wakefield Master is a very famous play from the medieval times, written by an anonymous playwright, this production is part of the two series mystery plays based on the bible. The play possibly was performed in the town of Wakefield located in the west part of England, during the end of the middle ages, around the 1400 and 1450. From this series the Second Shepherds play is very popular, as britannica.com, (n.d.) says: “Second Shepherds’ Play is widely considered the greatest work of…

A Toxic Friendship Affects People Has anyone ever stopped to think about how a toxic friendship can affect a person either in a positive or negative way? In the book A Separate Peace, John Knowles states that the narrator, Gene, returns to his hometown, to visit his old school, Devon. Including the tree that him and his friend used to jump off to the river. Gene then informs the reader about when he was friends with Finny as to how Finny’s life came to an end. The author informs the reader that…

Could you survive by yourself in the Canadian wilderness for 54 with only a hatchet ?In the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen,the main character Brian did just that.Brian got stuck in the Canadian Wilderness for 54 days after he was flying to see his father and the pilot had a heart attack.Brian had been through so much mentally and physically in the wilderness that it made him realize what he needed to survive like when he got attacked by a porcupine and got stuck in the leg with some quills,he…

No matter what situation in the past there will always be bias including key events in history. So not every specific event in history is told perfectly without humans interfering by downing another group or by making themselves look more favorable in the end. So in any historical development including religious faiths one should always judge the standards of that particular time period. A primary example for bias in history would be the day Cristopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. In…