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How to Inhabit America You may be thinking, “How do I inhabit America?” If you were Christopher Columbus, you would start by looking for a trade route from Europe to Asia. By making a few journeys by sailing, you would mistakenly discover America instead of an alternative route to Asia. In doing so, America’s original inhabitants are doomed by what your people are about to do. You may now settle in America even though you still think you are in Asia. Because you believe you are in Asia, you…

the land and its people. The most famous man for discovering one of the new worlds at this time was Christopher Colombus. While he wasn't the only one he was the most important, but the Age of Discovery had a major impact on the new and old world. Columbus set sail in 1492 and reached what he thought was the Indies in 30 days of sailing across the Atlantic. He landed in Hispaniola, and took back 10 indigenous people to convert to christianity. Colombus would come back and attempt to settle the…

The controversial voyages of Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, have sparked an uproar in debates on the explorer's malicious impact on past and present North American society, but it is discernible that Columbus has accomplished more wrongdoing than benefit. Firstly, we must initially analyze not only the European point of view, but that of the Native American inhabitants. These tribes see a vessel approach the shore and are extremely open to their arrival. Unaware of their purpose or…

In the beginning, after Columbus discovered the island, there was a large Spaniard population that thrived off of their fertile grounds and sugar cane fields (Deneen). In 1898, the Spanish American war allowed for Americans to take over the territory. Today you do not see Puerto Rico depending of sugar for agricultural benefits. As America moved into reign they supplied the territory with all essential needs. There own industrial revolution changed the island. There is no longer huge field, but…

Response In the late the 1880s the U.S. Congress made the announcement regarding the World Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair available to the public. The fair was intended to celebrate the 400-year anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to the new world. Four cities submitted bids to host the fair including: Chicago, New York, St. Louis, and Washington D.C. The competition between these four cities quickly diminished to a competition between just New York…

John Charles Fremont was born in Savannah, Georgia, in the year of 1813. He is the son of Charles Fremont, and Ann Beverley Whiting of Virginia. Fremont grew up in Charleston, and was educated in the science department of the College of Charleston. He was later expelled in 1831, three months from graduation. Fremont is most well-known for his exploration of the American West. He was also a huge figure in California’s 19th century gold rush. In his early life, he became a fast national hero for…

Prior to encountering Columbus’s Log I had blindly accepted Columbus as an “inspired hero who brought civilization and Christianity to the New World” (2). Yet, after reading and analyzing the introduction and Columbus’s tenth log, I learned more facts regarding the “catastrophic impact” Columbus’s revolutionary discovery had for indigenous people (2). I connected my naïve perception to a statement made by Linda Smith in Decolonizing Methodologies. She states, “It galls us that Western…

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…

Arawak Indians were the first Indians to meet Christopher Columbus and his crew when they arrived at the Bahama Islands. Columbus writes in his journal about how friendly and hospitable they were. This is followed by “what fine servants” they would make. Christopher Columbus ended up in the Bahamas because of an expedition he was sent on for the Spanish. At the time, Spain was hungry for gold, and Asia was thought to have a lot of it. Columbus had convinced the King and Queen that since the…

Most people in the United States celebrate a national holiday on October 9th in memory of Christopher Columbus, the man often credited with “discovering” America. The day is becoming increasingly controversial, however. Many argue the man himself is not worthy of commemoration. Columbus was not actually the first to cross the Atlantic, they said. The holiday is seen as a celebration of colonialism, and offensive to the continents indigenous people. Although people glorify him as being one of the…