Christopher Columbus Course Analysis

Everything that has been taught to us before this course is a lie. At least that would be what I would say if you asked me to describe what I learned in this course in one sentence. Throughout this course, I was exposed to background knowledge of historical events and figures that I hadn’t learned before. I learned everything from the truth behind the discovery of the new world, to the way our textbooks are created, to the real horrors of the holocaust, and even to the truth behind the reason our wars. I learned that behind the reason’s that the U.S claim to be for going to war, there are other REAL reasons for it. Reasons that are filled with greed and don’t benefit anyone but those who are in power. The history that I learned in this course, wasn’t the exact depiction of the one I had learned before. Actually, it wasn’t even close to being like it.
During this course, I found out that many of our historical figures weren’t what they were portrayed to be. First of all, Columbus wasn’t even the first person to discover America. There was in fact other explorers that had discovered the new world, but unlike Columbus didn’t claim it. Columbus also wasn’t as
I didn’t know much about this era, other than women, colored people, and workers were fighting for their rights. There were some changes that came from this era, changes that helped shape the way our society works today. For example, the minimum wage was set in this era. As was the paid vacation and the 8-hour work day. Thanks for the progressives’ fighting and perseverance there were rules that were set to help the working class (Discussion Board 9). I always thought that minimum wage was just something the government came up with as soon as jobs existed. But little did I know that the truth behind it is that people had to fight enough to earn minimum wage. That is something that will be permanently tattooed in my