Columbus Day

holiday of Columbus Day has kindled an irrefutable amount of controversy in recent years. One side of this bilateral argument asserts that Columbus opened up a global trade network while the other declares that his travels led to the decimation and abuse of the Native American population. One argues that Columbus Day should exist, while the other calls for its removal. However, this argument, along with the current Columbus Day, is overly simplified. To extract the true meaning of Columbus Day,…

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 person would celebrate Hitler, so why should Christopher…

The first ever Columbus Day celebrations were held in 1792 in New York City, marking the 300th anniversary of Columbus’ ‘discovery’, 100 years later in 1892 the US president Benjamin Harrison made an official announcement that encouraged American citizens to celebrate the 400th anniversary. Harrison wrote “On that day let the people, so far as possible, cease from toil and devote themselves to such exercises as may best express honor to the discoverer and their appreciation of the great…

the United States the second Monday of October is a “Holiday”. The holiday is Christopher Columbus Day, many schools are closed, offices, and government buildings. Some people agree and disagree about whether he deserves to be honored or not. He has done many good things for the world like finding the Americas ,and he was brave for sailing the seas to find the “New World”. The author of the article “Columbus Doesn’t Deserve a Holiday” thinks otherwise. He thinks he’s a demon and shouldn’t be…

Most people think that Christopher Columbus was the founder of America, but was he? Christopher Columbus was a famous explorer. He was the man who had been said to have found America. In 1492, Columbus and his 90 other crew members reached the coast of North America. When they arrived to the new land, there were already people there. Those people were the Native Americans. Evidence shows that the Native Americans had been in America for a very long time before the English came and took it over…

The holiday of Columbus Day has kindled an undeniable amount of controversy over the years. Whether or not it should be celebrated is debatable because while Columbus did open up the Americas to commerce with Eurasia, his travels also led to the decimation and abuse of the Native American population. The current Columbus Day is overly simplified. To extract the true meaning of Columbus Day, Columbus himself must be removed from the center of the holiday, and the holiday should recognize both the…

Although Columbus Day is a national holiday honoring a famous historic figure, many people take it as an opportunity to hang out with friends, finish homework, or even catch up on sleep. Columbus was known for many brutal attacks and events in history such as multiple rapes, enslaved people, and deaths. It is also well-thought that Columbus was the first one to discover the Americas , where many people don't know that the native Americans where the first to arrive in America. Instead of…

In 1492, Columbus claims he found America, but actually the natives did since they had already established their culture there. Columbus just came into the land and messed up their lifestyle in order for him to get his reward from Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. Therefore, Columbus did not care for natives, instead he treated them as people that were his servants and made himself seem more above them. Columbus Day should not be a national holiday, because Columbus achieved his “discovery”…

going on. There was also no wheel, no written language, no division of labor, little agriculture, and scant permanent settlement. Although the Native Americans did live a comfortable enough life, their lives were still limited to great extent. When Columbus and his successors conquered the Americas, they moved the boundaries of life in the Americas back and sped up the process of development in the…

Christopher Columbus, apparently America's founder. Well I think differently. And here is why. First of all, when Columbus got to America, there was already people, Indians, here. They had their own “villages”. They had been living here for a while when he got here. So how could “he” have “discovered” America and everything in it? That is something I have been wondering for years now, but I guess that is a question that will never get answered… By anyone. There is also another MAJOR…