The Celebration Of Columbus Day

Columbus Day is a holiday widely celebrated throughout the Americas. It is a holiday commemorating the voyage, Christopher Columbus made for when he landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492. “Christopher Columbus was an Italian-born explorer who set sail in August 1492, bound for Asia with backing from the Spanish monarchs King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.” His voyage was so successful that when he returned to Spain, he came with goods that the Europeans had never seen. The discovery of new merchandise brought about the Age of Exploration and in 1937, October 12th was officially named Columbus Day and nationally celebrated in the United States by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The arrival of Columbus in 1492 has been viewed with mixed feelings with others believing the day should be viewed as an occasion for mourning. Some activists advocate for the day to be replaced with a day for ethnic diversity. The belief that he discovered America is not to say that he was the first to set his eyes on America, it meant that he opened up America to new opportunities. This was by bringing America to the attention of the New World by bringing the civilization of Western Europe to its residents. It was the discoveries of Columbus that led to an interaction of ideas and people and different cultures that made America what it is today.

Columbus was an italian explorer who took four voyages across the atlantic ocean. Columbus day should be celebrated because he brought attention to america, its history as one of the oldest holidays. He brought attention to america because of its legacy, discovery of america, and having no change in growth in the population for thousands of years. It also had a great history because of the reason it started, why it was honored, and because of how many years it's been celebrated.

Indigenous: originating or occurring naturally in a particular place. In the United States, Christopher Columbus is honored as a hero who discovered this country, but he should be seen as a invader who enslaved and seized the native people. California undoubtedly made the appropriate decision to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day because how can America say Columbus discovered the United States when the Native Americans originated and inhabited the land first? The world continues to observe invaders as brave conquerors. The hidden truth is, the world honors those with fair skin as the heroes while the people with dark skin are seen and treated as less than human. Columbus Day was invented by the Knights of Columbus so their kids have a Catholic hero to look up to. Due to lobbying, Franklin Roosevelt signed Columbus Day as a federal holiday. The notion of Christopher Columbus discovering America is arrogant because Native Americans inhabited the land thousands of years before Columbus was even born. DNA evidence even suggests that the first settlers of South America were of Polynesian decent before the Vikings. On October 12th, 1492 Columbus arrived in the Bahamas which was occupied by the kind people of Lucayans, Taínos and Arawaks. In his diary, Columbus noted how friendly these people were. Seeing this as an advantage, he enslaved them to work in his gold mines. Half of the Native population died after only two years. If the Natives did not meet the working

Columbus is seen as a great man who colonized the Americas but in reality he introduced three horrible acts which include slavery, genocide, and racism. Columbus was the first man to introduce slavery with native people from the Caribbeans. He encouraged his men to rape women as young as nine and forced labor which eventually led to malnutrition and disease. Columbus started transatlantic slave trade by imported numbers of Africans from Haiti to work for him which lead to depopulation. In the Americas Columbus was wiping out a whole population of native Americans so that he could claim the land for himself. This first started when Columbus hung natives in rows of thirteen “in honor of the Redeemer and His 12 apostles.” Columbus eventually ruined two generations of native Caribbeans along with his Spanish discoverers. We shouldn’t celebrate Columbus day because we’re practically being racist towards both native Caribbeans and Hatians because we’re teaching the victims that what happened to their people was perfectly fine. Columbus should not be praised with his own holiday because of his cruelty to native Caribbeans, native Hatians, and native

Throughout history, Christopher Columbus was seen in quite contrary ways. Some would view him as a valiant hero who discovered the New World and vanquished the primitive ways of the savage and barbaric native people. Others would see Columbus in a much different light, describing him as an interloper who spread disease to and enslaved an entire native people. These two statements above describe two vastly different visions of Christopher Columbus. In fact, the hard evidence would support that a bit of both of the above visions are indeed factual. Christopher Columbus was a man with several wonderful achievements, however some of these achievements had several negative repercussions. Columbus's discovery of the New World led to a more diverse society, a new social system, and the exploitation and eventual extermination of the Native peoples.

The second Monday in October is celebrated across America as Columbus Day. It is a celebration of the man who discovered America. In school, children are taught that Christopher Columbus was a national hero. In actuality, the man was a murderer. It is true that he found a land that was unknown to the "civilized" world, yet in this discovery, he erased the natives inhabiting the land. With slavery, warfare, and inhumane acts, Christopher Columbus and the men who accompanied him completely destroyed a people, a culture, and a land. These are not actions that should be heralded as heroic.

“In fourteen-hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” As alluded to in this popular classroom rhyme, Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer whose motivation was to find a western sea route to Asia from Europe, as the terrain between the continents was treacherous, in addition to his selfish desire for fortune and fame. The rhyme above simplifies Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to the Americas in 1492, in which he stumbled across America, in which Columbus expressed the illusion of surfacing in India, and discovered it. In honor of this achievement, on the second Monday in October of every year, the United States of America celebrates Columbus Day, in which Columbus is regarded as heroic. The U.S. should denounce Columbus

It’s Columbus Day, and for some that means no school. Students from across North Texas can leave their textbooks behind and ride DART to enjoy one of the biggest days of the State Fair of Texas®.

When Christopher Columbus "discovered" America in 1492, many people slapped different titles on him; he was regarded as a mighty conqueror by other conquistadors, a glorious hero by his fellow Europeans, and a merciless villain by the natives of the land from which he took, tainted, and torn to shreds. In the year 2017, decades after the deed has been done, nothing has changed. Columbus day is still a celebrated holiday thoughout the US, with a few wise exceptions, and the man himself is still taught and believed to have been this intelligent, courageous explorer who survived the harsh waters of the Pacific and conquered America as his prize for the sake of Europe and all current Americans. How is it possible that this man is still seen in

We all have heard the saying the saying, “Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.” Christopher Columbus is the man who discovered the Americas on accident. It was never Columbus’ intention to find the Americas; his focus was to find a water route from Europe to Asia.

They painted a picture of Christopher Columbus in a way, to be honest, makes him look like a terrible human being. He was a lousy captain who failed to keep promises. He was a slave trader as well as a failed explorer (Zinn 1). Yet all across the history we have been taught, Columbus has been hailed as a hero who discovered America. To begin Columbus was not the first explorer to visit America. Loewen states “Seven of the twelve textbooks I studied at least mention the expeditions of the Norse. These daring sailors reached America in a series of voyages across the North Atlantic, establishing communities on the Faeroe Islands, Iceland.” (Loewen

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. He was born in 1451 in the Republic of Genoa that is now Italy. Later in life, he settled down in Spain. Columbus first went to the sea as a teenager, and took part in several trading voyages. He then was trying to sail west across the Atlantic to reach Asia on his first voyage as an adult. Columbus Day is a U.S. holiday that we celebrated first in 1937. The arrival of Columbus in the new world in October 12, 1492. The country began putting together a yearly religious ceremony and parades in his honor. It was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who declared Columbus Day a national holiday because of the Knights of Columbus, leading the Catholic organizations, persistence.

Several schools within the state of Michigan celebrate Columbus Day, a holiday honoring the man that “discovered” the New World. However, Byron Center Public Schools does not. The question that has been asked is whether we should start to celebrate the holiday, or continue not to. The answer is that Byron Center should continue to not celebrate the holiday. Columbus day should not be celebrated because of the negative effect his reign had on the Natives, he was not the first person to discover the New World, and the damaging effect he had on biodiversity.

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. This mnemonic is known by most American adults and taught to children in some schools. However, this rhyme holds a belief in it that is not true. When children are taught that Columbus set sail in 1492, they are also taught that when he did so he discovered America. This is truly and utterly false. If Columbus Day is no longer named as such, the Native Americans will be celebrated and a minority group will be represented rather than a murder. By seeing that Columbus did not discover America, Columbus was a murder, and the holiday Celebrated based on a common misconception, Columbus Day can become a more enjoyable holiday for everyone.