Lindbergh And Columbus: A Brave New World

Very few people have been categorized as a pioneer. A pioneer is someone who does something that mankind has never done before to progress science and understanding to our world. These people are very well known through the world. They are in history books as great and famous people. But who were the pioneers of humanity. Some of the most famous pioneers are Neil Armstrong, who was the first man on the moon. The Wright Brothers brought the airplane to the world. Now the plane is a widely use form of transportation. But few pioneers did something across the Atlantic. The most famous of these is Christopher Columbus and Charles Lindbergh.

Christopher Columbus and Hernando Cortes were both very skilled intelligent men, they both came to the New World (soon to be United States) searching for different but similar things. The point of my paper is to tell you some similarities and differences Columbus and Cortes had. Both men were from Spain but, with different routes and causes.

The 1920s was a decade of drastic change in the United States, with many new conflicts, leisure activities, and heroes to worship (Nash 374). Charles Lindbergh was one of these heroes. Born in 1902, he was trained in aviation and worked as an airmail pilot (Bishop). Later, he made history by becoming the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone (Nash 388). On May twenty-first, 1927, Lindbergh traveled from New York to Le Bourget field in Paris in his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis (James). He designed this plane himself, working to make it as small and lightweight as possible (Kessner “Charles Lindbergh, A New Hero”). Known as the “lone eagle”, Lindbergh became one of the biggest celebrities of the era (Chamberlain). His flight caused more excitement than any other event of its time (Nash 388). Approximately 25,000 people were at Le Bourget field to watch Lindbergh land (James). Upon returning to the United States, there were numerous parades and dinners to honor his achievement (“Lindbergh Visit Ends”). Charles Lindbergh was the most influential hero to emerge from the 1920s, making an impact by transforming aviation, as well as acting as a role model for the American public and encouraging a return to the old way of American life.

Christopher Columbus and John Smith are both similar in the fact that they made their kin very proud and became famous of their accounts of unexplored territory. Though their ideas of what to do with what they encountered was different, they both were very brave men. They were different in a way though. Columbus believed that there was a great value in terms of wealth to the natural resources he saw on the islands and he used a different rhetoric to explain it. John Smith saw economic growth possibilities in the fertile New England area that had a vast amount of natural resources, he also valued different commodities than Columbus.

Most people know of Christopher Columbus and Charles Lindbergh and how they climb the mountain of challenge and succeeded at their amazing goal. Although 400 years apart you would think nothing of comparing and contrasting the two in a essay.Well that is exactly what I’m going to do is compare and contrast these two icons of exploration by pointing out challenges, skills,the two incredible voyages they embarked and completed, the effect of the time between the two voyages and what they hoped to achieve by completing these amazing goals that makes them stand out in history today and will continue to make them stand out

Christopher Columbus and Charles Lindbergh, two men who have great accomplishments underneath their belts. First you have Christopher Columbus who was the man to discover the new world and Charles Lindbergh who miraculously traveled across the Atlantic ocean by himself without stopping, both having to conquer insurmountable obstacles. Though they come from different time periods they are still similar in a variety of ways, for example both of them as kids enjoyed their future occupations from the start, Charles thoroughly enjoyed aviation when he was young and Columbus gazed upon the seas as he traveled on merchant ships. Traveled across the Atlantic ocean with different navigation methods and used different ways of transportation to get across.

Columbus and Lindbergh: A Journey across the Atlantic Eventhough Christopher Columbus and Charles Lindbergh made their journeys across the Atlantic Ocean centuries apart, each man had to face similar difficulties. Both of them also had similar goals, for example Columbus wanted to spread his religion, gain wealth, and earn fame; whereas Lindbergh wanted to win the prize money offered by Raymond Orteig. The weather each man faced was unfavorable also, but Columbus had his crew to help him.

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” Thomas Hardy might have been comparing Christopher Columbus and Charles Lindbergh’s adventures when he said this. The 400 hundred years between their journeys may hint at the similarities and differences of what they hoped to achieve, challenges they faced, and the skills it took to reach their destination.

Columbus sailed on a ship; Lindberg flew a plane. Both of these men faced challenges, possessed the skills necessary, and accomplished great feats. Although they had different objectives, there are more similarities than one might think. The 400 year gap made their challenges, skills, and accomplishments seem similar, but the details of these men’s journeys were very different.

Christopher Columbus once said, “Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.” His journey to the west unfolded many possibilities which started the Age of Discovery and the Age of Exploration. Endless possibilities came about and the new land became one of the fastest developing countries in the world. The world became a better place when Christopher Columbus found the new world because new trade expanded the market, the economy grew and proof of land was discovered which sparked curiosity in explorers. The commence of the Americas started with a hopeful explorer who turned out to make one of the greatest discoveries that ultimately changed the world.

Is it time to give up when it could be the last second to change the world? Christopher Columbus and Lindbergh is revered as one of the greatest explorers that have given a experience of a lifetime. They both are credited with discovering what is now America, although they didn't have an clue he was awarded for that. This report looks into the life of this great explorers Christopher and Lindbergh, their epic journey that changed the world and our lives.

In the year 1492, Columbus changed human history forever when he landed in the Americas; his voyage was ground breaking and revolutionary, but it is hard to imagine what his journey could have accomplished with even a fraction of the technology available to the world today. Four inventions in particular would have made the largest impact. With the Internet, steam ships, machine guns, and the tractor Columbus would have had all the tools needed for a full scale military takeover and settlement before he even arrived on American shores. The real conditions of his voyage were much trickier without them; George Santayana described it perfectly when he said, “Columbus found a world, and had no chart. Save one that faith deciphered in the skies.”

Aviator Charles Lindbergh became famous for making the first solo transatlantic airplane flight in 1927. Starting off by dropping out of college in his sophomore year, then working his

Christopher Columbus’s life was filled with adventures and new beginnings that would leave a remarkable impression throughout history. Born in 1451 in Genoa, Columbus from an early age would become well acclimated to sailing as he began his career aboard a merchant ship and later study mathematics, astronomy, cartography, and navigation. Growing up and experiencing new thing Columbus began to come up with a plan different from all others to set sail across the Atlantic instead of going around the African continent. With his ideas being turned away from both Portugal and England it was Ferdinand and Isabella who took sympathy upon him and financial back his voyage as they both had hopes of gaining fame and fortune. In 1942, Columbus began his voyages and would carefully document each experience in the form of letters that would have a lasting impact on the world. I believe with the dramatic change in tones we see between the first and fourth letters it gives us the reader a true insight into Columbus’s mental and physical emotions over the years. Furthermore, these letters allow us to explore a part of history that is considered monumental while gaining information of what took place over a ten-year journey.

Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo) is considered, by popular belief in the United States of America, to be the “Father of the Americas”. Columbus was not the first European to reach mainland in the Western Hemisphere, but his efforts did lay the path to settlement of the “New World”. Like Christopher Columbus, Neil Armstrong was a pioneer in his own right; he is the “Father of Space”. Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong were obviously two very different people based on the times in which each of the men lived; what was not different, were the characteristics and qualities that both men shared.