Journey to the West

Columbus into present day. In the 15th century, there was not an efficient way to reach Asia from Europe. The Portuguese had a solution, sailing to Asia to avoid dangerous groups along the journey by land. Rather than sailing around the Cape of Good Hope, Columbus had a different plan, sailing west across the…

black man who was beaten severely for making connection with a white woman (Equiano, 104). In this point in narration he talks about the injustices of the slave trade, relating it with the required number i.e. 20,000 Negroes annually to fill up only in West Indies for the dead salves (Equiano, 106). He was honest and easily gullible who believed that he was striving economically towards freedom as he thought his master would set him free he used to spend most of his earning buying tobacco and…

fashion is a journey filled with rejection and hours of hard work. Success in the fashion industry is attainable through understanding the business aspects as well as gaining experience. It is not common for students of fashion to graduate and enter the industry immediately upon graduation. Most graduates or aspiring designers step into the apparel world by working for another designer or brand to gain experience and understand how the business works. Even world famous musician, Kanye West, had…

The middle passage is the name given to the journey the slaves had to undergo to be transported from Africa to their various locations. This voyage is a three to four month ship ride, chained together by twos, dying from smallpox and dysentery. Less than 60% of slaves survive or are viable assets…

(Samuel Morrison). Had Domenico been prosperous with his craft, Columbus may have spent his entire life as a fourth-generation weaver, and shopkeeper. Instead, as a young teenager, Columbus and his brother Bartholemew set out to sea for adventurous journeys and trade. They sailed the Mediterranean and Aegean seas on various trading voyages, but the routes where hard to navigate, and very…

Christopher Columbus wanted to find a new route to Asia by sailing west. He petitioned for support to a few kings and queens, all denied except one king and one queen. He had four total voyages across the ocean the first was in 1492. He setup a city named La Isabella. He showed leadership and wanted to explore. Columbus had specific views and goals for his first journey. Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean on August 3 – October 12, 1492. He took 3 ships with the names of the Niña, the Pinta,…

This was perhaps one of the reasons Columbus was responsible for the failure of two cultures to successfully interact. Christopher Columbus and his men enslaved many native inhabitants of the West Indies and exposed them to extreme brutality and violence. Columbus took ownership of the lands he found despite the natives already living there. When they reached the island of Guanahani the admiral told his men, “ to give their faith and witness…

prominent place among Indian English novelists. She won international fame and recognition with a publication offer very first novel, Nectar in a sieve in 1954. When she started writing novels, the themes hunger and degradation, human relationships, east – west encounter had already been dealt with by a number of Indian/English novelists. But Kamala Markandaya provides variety and vividness to these themes. In her all the novels these themes are reflected in the life in villages, cities,…

have set for myself when I live my life on a day-to-day basis as well as when I journey to Costa Rica to apply the principles I have learned in the Bible. However, I wasn’t always the best at applying this statement to my life. Before coming in contact with Christianity and Bent Tree, I was a huge narcissist. It has taken a decade of spending time at Bent Tree in order to develop me into the man I am today. And that journey will never end; always striving to be a better individual to my peers…

transcriptions of the speeches that spurred the Crusade. The Deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalem-Bound Pilgrims⁶ is the earliest known Latin account of the First Crusade. It is a collection of anonymously written narratives of the day-to-day events of the journey including the military campaigns, logistics, and morale of the troops. The book is used as a primary source in most scholarly writings of the First Crusade. Additionally, no actual transcripts of the papal speeches survived and thus…