Columbus Day

Morning Josh and Fanyons! Marilyn asked me to hold the fort while she is on vacation this week and I'm happy to help as she is making her way to unite with old friends, make new ones and just have fun this week! So here goes. . . Today is Columbus Day and that seems the perfect holiday to celebrate as our fellow adventuring Fanyons are packing for and traveling to GRL in Atlanta. They are trekking across the United States, from Canada, across the Pacific and the Atlantic to meet up with Facebook and GR friends who have become the real deal. That puts me in mind of the how small our world is and how fortunate we are to experience people and cultures from around the world here. We have Josh to thank for friending each of us and allowing us to…

Monday marks Columbus Day for people in the United States, but did you know there was a lunar twist to the famous explorer's journey? On Oct. 12, 1492, Columbus came ashore on an island northeast of Cuba, which he later named San Salvador (Holy Savior). Over the next 10 years Columbus would make three more voyages to the "New World." On his fourth and final voyage, while exploring the coast of Central America, Columbus found himself in dire straits. He left Cádiz, Spain, on May 11, 1502, with…

Celebrating Columbus Day: Should We? The issue of whether the United States should continue to celebrate Columbus Day or not has been a topic of interest for quite some time. To some people Columbus Day is a ridiculous day on which we glorify genocide of the Arawak Indians while to others it is considered a day of great importance and a celebration of an honorable man in history. Columbus Day is actually the latter description, but to prove this an agreeable definition is needed. What exactly is…

Columbus day. To be, or not to be? 500 years ago a man had a dream. It was an ambitious dream, but a dream it was. His dream was to cross the Atlantic ocean to what he thought was Asia and his name was Christopher Columbus. Eventually, Columbus did achieve his dream. Once Columbus reached the new world he met natives who inevitably, were afraid of him. He took advantage of them and when they did not comply he murdered them. This was perfectly acceptable of the time period but in the…

Mythologies: Columbus Day Columbus Day is more a catastrophe than it is a celebration. The day that Christopher Columbus arrived in North America was a momentous day. Along with the great discovery of North America that is worthy of celebration, it also marks the beginning of the mass genocide of the Native Americans. The later of the two has been ignored. As the tales go, “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” We are taught from the day we step foot into schools…

Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, he was sent from the Spanish to the west to explore new lands. America Should not continue celebrating Columbus Day because, he brought cruelty, he did not discover anything new and it’s unpatriotic to celebrate. Columbus did not discover anything new because the Natives were there first, he knew about “new lands” across the Atlantic and it brought the tent that “all men are created equal”. Columbus brought cruelty such hanging non-Catholics, smallpox and…

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…

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue” This is a rhyme that most of us heard in our elementary and middle school days. It is factual that Columbus did sail to the Americas, but where is the evidence behind the fact that he actually “discovered” this new land? As students, we know that there were natives living on the land before Columbus and, therefore, he did not actually discover a new world. After learning this fact, why is Columbus Day still relevant? Why do Americans get the day off to…

Every year kids around our nation take off from school on October 10th, Columbus Day. In parallel with this annual vacation day for most in the United States, children are also taught about a heroic explorer, who courageously stood up for his belief, that the world was round, rather than flat, by asking many monarchs for the opportunity to prove his belief by finding a shortcut to the Indies, and then proceeded to discover the Americas. Yes, children nationwide are captivated by the story of…

Many holidays celebrate an important event from past time that serves a special meaning to the country. Recently, many institutions have thought to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People Day because of the many horrible effects caused from Christopher Columbus.Some have already decided to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day. Although Columbus was one of the explorers that have explored the New World, it’s the only good lasting effects that was from him. Columbus Day should not…