One reason why I think we should not celebrate Columbus day to the extent of a federal holiday is because of the thinking that Columbus was the one who discovered North America. In the article “Leif Erikson” , Leif Eriksson, who was the son of Erik the Red, is said to be the first European to set foot in North America. There are stories about how he truly discovered North America but one story says that he sailed off course on his way back to Greenland and ended up below Greenland in North america. Another story is he heard about the fertile land of North America by an icelandic man who had sailed past it years before so Leif thought it would be a good place to land his ship. This idea of Christopher Columbus truly
Page 27). On Columbus’s boats brought disease which the Natives had never experienced before. Since their immune system did not know how to fight it and there was no medicine a lot of them died. Christopher Columbus for these reasons should not have a national holiday. In conclusion Columbus did impact Americans in some positive and negative ways.
Goodbye Columbus: The Real Meaning Behind The Holiday Some see Christopher Columbus as an iconic explorer, who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to prove a simple point of a round Earth. Even more people see Columbus as the heartfelt founder of the New World. However, there are few that see Columbus as an invader, liar and murderer. This large genocide that took place, should not be celebrated as a prideful holiday, but more a mourning for the lives lost. Over 2,000 year ago, Eratosthenes, an Ancient Greek mathematician, calculated the circumference of the Earth.
Despite Smith’s efforts, only sixty colonists out of the four hundred survived the “Starving time” winter. It was not until shortly after when the Englishmen decided to set up an offensive small military. As a result of this small settlement in Virginia, the settlers’ persistence would pay off when they would discover how easily the cash crop tobacco grows. In contrast, settlers would come to Massachusetts only to escape the “oppression” they felt. They disagreed with the Church of England in allowing Catholics and “hop[ing] to return the Catholic Church of England to the pope and to restore Catholic doctrines and
He didn’t see anyone else living there and claimed it for Norway. Within the next 50 years, thousands of settlers migrated to Iceland and all the fertile land was claimed. On the other hand, Greenland was discovered by Erik the Red. Erik the Red was a condemned murderer banished from Norway to Iceland, and then banished from Iceland. He decided to head west rather than east and discovered a new
The other leader was William Bradford, he wanted to come for religious reasons. Captain John Smith and his native people were on a ship, and on their way to North America. Smith and his people were going to North America because they wanted to build colonies and get rich. “ But now was all our provisions spent, the sturgeon gone, all helps abandoned, each hour expecting the fury of the savages.” ( Smith 4 ) This quote
We left England in the December of 1606 . 144 of us, all boys and men, were mainly in search of gold and other riches . When we docked in The Chesapeake bay, in 1607, there were only 104 passengers left in our vessels . I thought to myself that the worst had already passed. I had no idea of the upcoming hardships.
On a cold winter morning, the longships arrived and the Vikings attacked. They burned buildings, stole treasures, murdered monks and terrified everyone. The desecration of Lindisfarne was recorded on the famous Domesday Stone. In the years that followed, villages near the sea found themselves besieged by the vikings. The Viking raids were sporadic until 840s.
Planning to explore the Arctic, finding it difficult to raise funds and was informed that Americans’ explorers, Frederick Cook and Robert Peary claimed to each the North Pole, he aimed his target south. Leaving Oslo on June 3, 1910 and bounding for South Pole, he reached the eastern edge of Antarctica, Ross Ice Shelf (known as “The Great Ice Barrier” in the past) nearly six month later. Establishing a base camp there, he used skis and dog sleds as transportation and creating supply depots during his journey to South Pole. The first attempt ended in failure because of harsh winter conditions and his team member ending up in quarrel against each other. In his second attempt, he took 4 members and left the camp, consisting of 4 sled and 52 dogs.
Even if Mary Celeste wasn’t found in the Bermuda region and was in other part of the Atlantic, many conspirators associate the case with the Triangle itself. The case of the unnamed ship associated with the Ellen Austin crews: in 1881, the crew of The Ellen Austin, an American ship which used to sail between New York and London, found a mysterious deserted ship. The captain ordered to some of his crew to guide the ship back to New York alongside the Ellen Austin, however the two vessels were separated by a huge storm and the unnamed ship with part of the Ellen Austin crew were gone. The Ellen Austin found the unnamed ship one more time but once again no single soul was on board. The captain ordered some of the crew to take the vessel again, but once again the unnamed ship vanished and this time she was never found by the Ellen Austin or other ship after that.