Columbus Day

James Joyce said "Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America." This quote is one hundred percent true because Christopher Columbus did not discover America, he merely expanded the idea of it. Columbus actually never set foot in America, and Vikings had already settled in the eleventh century. These are only two of the reasons Columbus day is an embarrassment to this country. So we need to take down Columbus’s name and rename this…

While reading information about Columbus Day and other days related to it, I learned many new facts that I did not know before. Personally, I would rather celebrate Indigenous People’s Day because Columbus did some bad things. In school, I never learned about all of the injustices committed by Columbus and other explorers of that age because they were only portrayed as heroes. I found that the Washington Post and history.com were the most reliable sources because they were an established…

COLUMBUS DAY In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. As holidays go, Columbus Day is a pretty harmless one. The banks close (as they find any excuse to) and some of us go about our merry working way as kindergarteners take the cue to begin making make hand-shaped turkeys and construction paper headdresses. But why? Why are we celebrating this one man? This murderer and destroyer of worlds — both directly and indirectly — why are we honoring him? He had three ships and…

Columbus day should not be celebrated as a holiday because Columbus tortured and killed many native Americans while on his voyage, he was not the first to find the land he discovered, and he never set foot in what is known today as the United States of America. Christopher Columbus is thought to be the founder of the U.S. and the first man to step foot on the land. He is also praised for the discoverment of the New World which consisted of him finding various Caribbean islands, the Gulf of…

Christopher Columbus day is significant throughout America. Christopher Columbus was someone who found America and was the first person to actually record his path, which allowed others to be able to find it again. Although many think of Columbus day as a fake holiday, they do not focus on the important things that Columbus achieved and accomplished. One reason that we should keep Christopher Columbus day is because he enabled different sea routes that allowed ships to return easily for trading…

There is no doubt that Christopher Columbus changed the world. Whether his voyages were good or bad, he did make history. He is widely known and a hero to some. Columbus Day became a federal holiday in 1937, creating an uproar of fury and merriment. The questions is, is that should Columbus Day be a holiday considering his decisions and actions? In this paper, I will state the reasons of both, why and why not Columbus Day should be a federal holiday as well as my own thought on the matter. To…

Columbus Day should be changed to Indigenous Culture’s Day because we should not celebrate a genocide of an entire culture. It does not matter how “great” and “influential” he was, he wiped out an entire people. In 1451, Christopher Columbus (known in Italy as Cristoforo Colombo) was born in Genoa, Italy. He was born in a nice middle class family, whose father was a wool weaver. He was a normal man, until he started voyaging to Africa and the “New World”. What most people don’t realize is…

Counterhistory Narrative I still remember that day, the day the Explorer Christopher Columbus came back from his famous expedition, with news of his discovery of “the America’s”. As I, a fellow explorer, continue to hear his stories of how the natives were when he reached, and how their civilization was so savage, I had come to a realization. Christopher Columbus did not really discover the America’s and should not be given the credit and praise for it that he receives. It aggravates me…

Columbus Day is an American holiday celebrated on October 12 (may be observed at different times), the day which Christopher Columbus set sail to discover the Americas, in 1492. He set forth the future of what would become known as the Caribbeans, South America, Hispaniola and others. However, he never reached North America, which is a know fact that Americans today continue to mistake it for. Either way, it is still honored for his discoveries and essentially marking history. Today, people seem…

mrs edwards lang arts 3\4 should we celebrate columbus day? I think we should not celebrate columbus day. why? well because the things he did was bad.there was also some good things in all of this to. let me tell you some things that he did that were good and that were. Here are some bad things he did while he was at America.I will also tell you about how we should not celebrate him in schools. I think we should not celebrate columbus day because he made a lot of the people living in…