Christopher Okigbo

"Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary" - Gerard Way. Heroes are not always the most recognizable, as they are found when they step up to the occasion at hand. All heroes, whether it be as big as saving the planet, or as small as gaining the courage to overcome something in life, have a distinct journey that they traverse. In the novel Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel, the protagonist, namely Matt Cruse, goes on a journey to, one day, be the captain of an airship. Slowly, yet surely

Throughout the entirety of the Caribbean history there have been many myths. One of the greater ones has been that the indigenous people that Christopher Columbus encountered are extinct. The book’s author, Tony Castanha, debunks that myth with stories of resistance to Columbus retold by people with Boriken descent, uncovering census data, and the retelling of the old Jibaro culture. With all this evidence, it is apparent that the Jibaro people are in fact not extinct. The first chapter mainly discusses

Life is about considering others and their feelings, but there are people who only think about themselves, sometimes on purpose sometimes inherently. In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer the main protagonist Chris McCandless was inherently selfish in his journey into Alaska. Chris McCandless was an intelligent kid. Graduating high school with all honors and being accepted into and attending Emory University. He was athletic and on top of all this had an upper middle class income. Life wasn’t

Christopher Columbus was an Italian Explorer,colonizer.He was one of the most outstanding navigator in human history.In 1492, Columbus sailed to the Americas for the first time. It was the beginning of the 21st century large-scale sailing, the beginning of the connection between the old continent and the new continent, and caused a great variety of ecological changes.He traveled four times across the Atlantic from 1492 to 1502 under the support of the King of Spain. Since Columbus’ discovery in

The definition for selfish is “lacking consideration for others: concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure”. Jon Krakauer tries to tell us that he is selfish in the book Into The Wild. Chris Mccandless fits this definition selfish pretty well. He abandoned his family. He abandoned his new friends that he met on the way. He only did what he wanted. Chris Mccandless abandoned his family without even thinking of their feelings. He left his sister whom he was close to. He left his

on Asian sources for medicines, spices, and all kinds of luxury goods that were unavailable elsewhere. The desire to profit from this trade impelled men to take great risk to find an alternative route around the Ottoman Empire to eastern Asia. Christopher Columbus set out from Spain in 1492 with exactly this mission in mind. His goal was to locate a safe trade passage to the Indies in India and also locating a way to

It was not unexpected that Chris died. Although, it is indeed very disappointing to see that such an inspiring pilgrim did not survive his ¬¬¬inspiring journey. His strong will and his determination to live had saved his life many times such as when kayaking down the Colorado River or when nearly drowning in the Gulf of Mexico (Krakauer 5). It is sad to see that his obsession and craving for the natural world would eventually lead to his death. Innocent mistakes such as eating moldy seeds and not

robots under Hitler’s command, and nothing else. While reading this book I began to realize that these people were living human beings too, that at first felt disgusted by what they were instructed to do too and that’s what I think the author, Christopher Browning, was trying to do. He is saying that these men were just regular people that were trained to kill and that if we’re not aware of this phenomena that it could happen again. The Order Police began after World War I. Germany was

In the 15th century European explorers came and sailed to Turtle Island (now know as Canada). The European Explorers claimed that this was their land but the Aboriginal people of Canada were already living there. Since the Europeans and the Aboriginal people of Canada didn’t speak the same language they couldn’t communicate with the Europeans that much but the Aboriginal people of Canada understood the Europeans a bit. Europe started claiming the land of Turtle Island. Many more European explorers

Christopher Columbus was born in the port city of Genoa, Italy in 1451. His father was a wool weaver named Domenico Columbo. As a boy, Christopher had no schooling. He and his younger brother Bartholomew helped their father by carding raw wool. Christopher grew up to be a tall, red-haired, quiet and deeply religious man. He worked for his father until he was 22. He went out with the sardine fishing fleets, as other Genoese boys did and he sailed along the coast to Corsica