Journal Entry One: Chimi Northrop-Toro Christopher Columbus: Letter to Ferdinand and Isabel Regarding the Fourth Voyage This letter had a negative and cynical tone. It describes the lands in exhausted state and in destruction. “Of Espanola‚ Paria‚ and the other lands‚ I never think without weeping‚ I believed that their example would have been to the profit of others; on the contrary‚ they are in an exhausted state; although they are not dead‚ the infirmity is incurable or very extensive; let
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the street if they knew who Zheng He was? Why do people not pay attention to such a huge part of world history? Zheng He was a Chinese fleet commander and was famous for the seven voyages that he made between 1405 to 1433. His voyages should be celebrated for several reasons. Firstly‚ he invented several innovations in nautical architecture. Secondly‚ wherever he went‚ he was always respectful to the native people and did not expel or colonize them. Thirdly‚ Zheng He travelled incredible distances
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Why is Christmas Day on the 25th December? No one knows the real birthday of Jesus! No date is given in the Bible‚ so why do we celebrate it on the 25th December? The early Christians certainly had many arguments as to when it should be celebrated! Also‚ the birth of Jesus probably didn’t happen in the year 1AD but slightly earlier‚ somewhere between 2BC and 7BC (there isn’t a 0AD - the years go from 1BC to 1AD!). The first recorded date of Christmas being celebrated on December 25th was in 336AD
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October 12‚2015 students across the country were out of school for Columbus Day ‚ but why ? Christopher Columbus was responsible for a genocide and many other innocent deaths ‚he did not discover America ;so why ? Why do we celebrate people like him when we should actually celebrate people who had an actual positive legit impact on our lives. Born muslim in c. 780‚Al-Khwārizmī‚ became a mathematician‚not any mathematician but “the father Of Algebra “ who also studied astronomy‚geography ‚history
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Social Studies Fifth Grade – 24 students 50 minutes II. RATIONALE AND BACKGROUND: The purpose of this lesson is for the students to read alternative sources about Christopher Columbus and express their opinion about whether he should be celebrated. The students will read an article about Christopher Columbus and highlight in one color the positive influence of Columbus’s life and in another color the negative influence of Columbus’s life. Then‚ the class will discuss the positives and negatives
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Ayoub Laissouf Animal Testing Shouldn’t Be Banned The exploitation of animals in experimentation isn’t a new issue because it could be traced back to the fourth century BC when Aristotle and his contemporaries used to perform experiments on animals. Besides‚ in the twelfth century‚ the Arab physician Avanzoar used animals to test his new surgery techniques before performing them on humans. Today‚ due to the advancement of the medical field‚ physicians rely excessively on
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and celebrated example of conquering is that of Christopher Columbus in 1492. From as early as birth it seems children hear of the courage and accomplishments of Columbus‚ even to the point that we have a federal holiday dedicated to him on the second Monday of October. He is credited with the discovery of the New World and creating this continent as we know it today. But switch the perspective to that of the native people in the Americas back then and you get a much darker picture. Columbus to them
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Why Shouldn’t We Be Selfish? Selfishness is an act that humans innately have implanted within them. Ayn Rand being a rational egoist had many moral beliefs‚ one being especially about selfishness. She believed that: "Self-interest‚ properly understood‚ is the standard of morality and selflessness is the deepest immorality."( Ayn Rand 279) This basically emphasizes that you should see oneself‚ as an end to oneself. A person’s own life and happiness are their highest values‚ and
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be a hero in some fashion or another. Christopher Columbus describes in immaculate detail his voyage across the sea. He portrays himself as a man of great power and leadership. Columbus describes his search for the city of gold in such a way that one would almost start to believe that he is doing the Natives a service by extracting their gold from their lands so that it can be placed in the rightful hands of the rulers of his own nation. Columbus says‚ “They have no religion‚ and I believe that they
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Why People Shouldn’t Smoke Do you think smoking is “cool”? I don’t … because if you think smoking is “cool”‚ then I suppose you think jumping off a building is “cool” too? Because when you smoke it’s harmful to your health just like how jumping off a building is. Most people think it’s “cool” to smoke but it’s really not. Why would you choose to live a unhealthy life by smoking rather than to live a healthy life without smoking when they’re no benefits to smoking? I think
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