Columbus Day Essay
Ferdinand Lopez Landrau
Professor Kathrine O'neil
English 102
February 07, 2016
Columbus Day is a federal holiday but many Americans continue to believe is a celebration to be ashamed
Introduction
During this year in United Stated we will celebrate again Christopher Columbus day; to be exact is going to be on October 16, 2016. During this day we will commemorates Christopher Columbus discovering a new world back in 1492, but with the past of the years this celebration had been a remembrance of a difficult and a deep marked in our history that many Americans feel and trying to erase from their past. Did Christopher Columbus was a brutal colonizer that brought slaves from Europe and cause the slaving native Americans and slaves in general? …show more content…
The question was explained what Christopher Columbus had done? Their major finding was that 85 percent of this national sample gave simple traditional answers that basically described Columbus as the “discoverer of America.” Only 6 percent gave Heroic responses also fewer than 4 percent characterized Columbus in the Villainous terms advanced by revisionist writers and protestors. This type a census was only giving to 1,511 that don’t cover the total population of America and also it don’t enter into details of how many Native American this question was asked. The controversy also explored the answer given by different ethnicities in the article title “Elite Revisionists and Popular Beliefs: Christopher Columbus, Hero or Villain?" By Schuman, Schwartz and D’Arcy that can be described as a depth analysis between the influences of different revisionist critiques written during history past and present. Opinions can show discernible relations to age or education or both when we can ask the question who was Christopher Columbus; but the facts are written in our history books and can be found deep in the scars of Native
Professor Kathrine O'neil
English 102
February 07, 2016
Columbus Day is a federal holiday but many Americans continue to believe is a celebration to be ashamed
Introduction
During this year in United Stated we will celebrate again Christopher Columbus day; to be exact is going to be on October 16, 2016. During this day we will commemorates Christopher Columbus discovering a new world back in 1492, but with the past of the years this celebration had been a remembrance of a difficult and a deep marked in our history that many Americans feel and trying to erase from their past. Did Christopher Columbus was a brutal colonizer that brought slaves from Europe and cause the slaving native Americans and slaves in general? …show more content…
The question was explained what Christopher Columbus had done? Their major finding was that 85 percent of this national sample gave simple traditional answers that basically described Columbus as the “discoverer of America.” Only 6 percent gave Heroic responses also fewer than 4 percent characterized Columbus in the Villainous terms advanced by revisionist writers and protestors. This type a census was only giving to 1,511 that don’t cover the total population of America and also it don’t enter into details of how many Native American this question was asked. The controversy also explored the answer given by different ethnicities in the article title “Elite Revisionists and Popular Beliefs: Christopher Columbus, Hero or Villain?" By Schuman, Schwartz and D’Arcy that can be described as a depth analysis between the influences of different revisionist critiques written during history past and present. Opinions can show discernible relations to age or education or both when we can ask the question who was Christopher Columbus; but the facts are written in our history books and can be found deep in the scars of Native