Columbus Day

Record a 4 minute audio essay about your beliefs on the topic of Columbus Day. Include readings, discussions and any relevant outside experiences to support your claims. Be sure to answer the question: what do you believe about Columbus Day? You can use readings from both this unit and any previous readings that connect well Columbus Day Every year on the second Monday of October, we celebrate Columbus Day, a day which commemorates the explorer Christopher Columbus’s so called “discovery” of…

Columbus Day Columbus Day became a legal holiday in 1971, marking Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to America in 1492. This is a day that is celebrated, but should America continue to celebrate this day? Columbus Day should not be celebrated due to his cruelty, false discoveries, and the result of his voyage. Columbus’ cruelty consists of unleashing greyhounds on Natives, having Native women raped, and harsh punishment. Columbus’ false discoveries include not discovering America, not…

question ‘Should we celebrate Columbus Day?’ Columbus Day is observed as a legal holiday in various areas of the United States in honor of Christopher Columbus himself and his discovery of the New World. This includes his landing in the West Indies. However, the events placed with him, Columbus had not discovered America at all. This was not his mission, and in the process of doing this, he created turmoil throughout the world. People are supposed to honor Christopher Columbus as one of the…

Why should we celebrate Columbus Day? Think about it this way. How many people actually do take the time to celebrate Columbus Day? As stated by an analysis by Vox, only fifteen percent of private workers take the day off. Only twenty-two states recognize Columbus Day as an actual holiday, which is nearly half of the country. Think about it, only half the country celebrating something a holiday. We don’t consider the Super Bowl a holiday do we? No, we shouldn’t celebrate anything if…

sailing now days using the more advanced technology over the years up to modern day time (twenty-sixteen). However, If Christopher Columbus would have used these technologies such as a engine boat for higher speed instead of his cargo ship known as the Santa Maria and the two other ships (Pinta and Nina) that sailed at that time, a computerized navigation system for better tracking of his destination , and a clock instead of a sandglass and quadrant to tell the time of night and hour of day.…

know Columbus Day is a lie? If you don’t know who Columbus is, he was a man who was claimed to discover America. Many think that Columbus found the New World looking for new undiscovered land but he was in fact trying to find gold and an all-water route to Asia as well as Queen Isabella’s mission for spreading Christianity to Asia. Columbus Day shouldn’t be celebrated because he was not actually the person to discover the Americas and Columbus thought he landed in Asia. First, Columbus Day…

Columbus Day is a national holiday that many people no longer want to celebrate. Columbus Day was made into a holiday because Columbus is credited with the discovery of America. It was first celebrated in the 18th century in the year 1792. It became a federal holiday in 1971 almost two hundred years later. Almost 50 years later, it is a topic of debate. The people who don’t want to celebrate this holiday have many reasons why. One of the major reasons that people boycott Columbus day is that…

studies at the University of Colorado). Our lovely lawyers and witnesses demonstrated for us what kind of man Columbus is; he’s a murderer. He destroyed the lives of Native Americans for generations to come. Columbus saw the people of the Bahamas and he had no thought of their livelihood, he didn’t think of the consequences of his endeavors, or if he did it was not enough to stop him. Columbus acted in interest of himself, God, and Spain.…

Today the students were instructed to participate in an art activity as part of a Columbus Day lesson. All of the students finished the assignment in a reasonable time. The fast finishers were given the option to choose an activity they wanted to participate in for free play. Jacob was still working on his assignment and began to notice that he was one of the few students left to finish. He then indicated to me that he could not finish the activity and that it was too hard. I provided him with…

I think that columbus day should not be celebrated because there are a lot of things wrong things at one point columbus was wanted because he was in debt he owed a lot of people money/gold.Columbus day should not be celebrated also because columbus was so money hungry that he went to spain to a king in queen talked them into giving him gold so he can sail the world he told them he would pay them back when he gets back but columbus was in debt and he used all the money so he decided to enslave…