Explorer

Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer and the first explorer to set foot in North America. De Leon was one of the many people to influence Florida, as we know it today. De Leon is a highly recognized for being Florida’s first resident and governor. Ponce de Leon was a Spanish Explorer who was born in 1460. He sailed to Florida from Puerto Rico in 1513. Shortly thereafter, de Leon and his crew arrived at Florida’s east coast, near St. Augustine. He claimed the land for Spain and called it La…

James Cook: Captain James Cook was an English explorer in the 1700s who was in search of the “Southern Continent” which he didn’t believe really existed. He went on three big expeditions; the first was from 1768 to 1771, when he sailed from Plymouth, England to Brazil, around Cape Horn, Africa, and to Tahiti where he stayed for a while, then to New Zealand, Australia, and Java to prove they weren’t part of a larger southern continent. His second expedition took him to Antarctica and many of…

Net Force Explorers otherwise known as Tom Clancy’s Net Force Explorers is a series young adult novels created by Steve Pieczenik and Tom Clancy. The novels are a spinoff of Tom Clancy military fiction series Net Force. The first novel in the series was Virtual Vandals that was first published in 1998. The novels are generally classified as young adult science fiction. Set in a futuristic 2025, the novel is about preventing the sabotage of the virtual reality network and the Internet by…

This paper will be about Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle the explorer. It will talk about different areas of exploration of the Americas that La Salle discovered and mapped. It will also discuss La Salle’s trials and tribulations of his discoveries and his final outcome. La Salle was born on November twenty-first, 1643 in Roven, France, the son of a well-known merchant. At a young age, La Salle had joined the Jesuit College to become a Jesuit priest. His superiors noted that he was…

influenced by the travelers and monarchs that were working for France. France established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere in eastern North America. The explorers were working under Francis I and were looking for wealth and a westward route to Asia. During the early stages of the French Exploration there were four main explorers that made the most impact, Giovanni de Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and Robert La Salle. Verrazano was a Tuscan captain and was…

Henry Hudson was a great English explorer, he was born in 1570 and died in 1611. We do not know much about his early life. From his first voyage as captain of a ship in 1607, we began to know Henry Hudson. Given his talent for navigation, it is assumed that he probably worked on other ships before being appointed commander of a single ship. We also know he was married to a woman named Katherine and he had three sons with her called Richard, Olivier and John. His character remains elusive but…

Blue’s Clues, Dora the Explorer, and Sesame Street are television shows I grew up watching. My mother sat me in front of the TV when I was just a baby. Did I know what I was watching? No, but I knew that I saw colors and became intrigued. I obviously didn’t know what I was looking at but the television was a distraction if my mother was cooking or cleaning. My mother was not aware exposing me to the TV could have negative effects. Today, no one sees the TV as an immoral object. It is rare…

Hernan Cortes was a Spanish conqueror and explorer who was recognized for defeating the Aztec empire as well as conquering the land of Mexico and claiming it for Spain. Born in 1485 in his hometown Medellin, Spain, He lived with his father, Martin Cortes, and his mother Catalina Pizarro Altamirano. His guardians were poor members of the lower nobility class. Hernan set sail to the new world at the age of 19.[1]. Cortes conquered the land of Cuba in 1511. In the year of 1518, Velázquez, an…

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…

Once upon a time there were these Spanish explorers of the New World who found theses 2 amigas named, Melanie, and I who found a vast treasure and gold in Mexico and cancun. In the 1972, I conquered the Rose empire. She and her amigas took thousands of pounds of gold, silver, and precious jewels. Then in 1979, Melanie Hernandez conquered the sunshine Empire. “ Melanie, I heard him saying that he is going to kill you so he can take the treasure from you.” I said nervously. Next day, El Dorado…