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Compare And Contrast Morrison And Zinn On Christopher Columbus
Eliot Morrison and Howard Zinn both wrote about their view on Christopher Columbus while Morrison left out the bad and see the good and still admire him. Howard Zinn wants to uncover the truth about Christopher Columbus and how even though he’s portrayed as a hero on history book he’s actually not. He also focuses on analyzing Christopher Columbus as not a here even though history textbook portrays him to be a hero and discover America. Zinn main point in the text was how the student are more likely to portrait him as a hero when reading just one page about him in a history textbook. Which Is more likely to receive an incomplete bias view of the story. It also uses an extended metaphor to compare slave with animal and the tones are richest
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