Columbus Day is a significant holiday in America. However many people do not know the true history behind this celebrated holiday. This holiday needs to be changed to a different holiday because of Columbus's treatment to the natives, the result of colonizing, and the fact that Columbus Day shouldn't celebrate Columbus but rather America. The initial reason Columbus Day needs to be altered is Columbus's treatment of the Native Americans, the Tainos. Columbus used tactics such as fear to cajole the
1.) Throughout the course of a hundred years scholars and archeologists have offered various theories on how America was colonized. Through that time four major theories have come to pass, the Pacific Coast Migration, the Ice Free Corridor, the Solutrean Precursors to Clovis, and finally the Trans-Pacific-Contacts. The Pacific Coast Migration proposes that people entered the continents at the edge of Beringia, followed the Pacific coastline to the shores of Oregon and California on boats, and subsided
Rebecca Gertler 11th Grade Summer HW Questions for Eric Foner’s The Story of American Freedom 1. Where does the American idea of freedom or liberty originate? The original idea of freedom in America was brought by the first puritan settlers in colonial Massachusetts, and was a spiritual thing, as oppose to religious or social. Many of these settlers’ original goal in the colonies was obtain a religious freedom they were not granted in England. They believed in Christianity and thought that their
Even though some may feel that 19th Century America was the greatest period for this country, there has to be an understanding as to why that was. At that time, this was the time of unrest. The citizens, mostly women and blacks, felt that there was inherent injustice in their “home.” It seems that there were many problems lying under the surface. This led to different social reforms. The social reformers attacked these social ills: women’s rights, alcoholism, education and abolitionism. These social
Kachru refers to the status of English in countries such as, Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Zambia as a result of colonization by the British empire but it did not replace their indigenous languages instead the it co-existed with them in certain role. So that, they are the ESL countries where English is not the first language for the majority but it is used in institutional
The current underdevelopment at the grass root of the Nigerian society and politics has made it imperative for this paper to focus on the role of traditional institutions and Local Government Administration in Nigeria as agent that are supposed to enhance and promote development in the rural area. The basic argument of the paper is that during Pre-colonial days in Nigeria, traditional rulers enjoyed full power in their Kingdom, command respect and obedience from their subject; however colonialisation
all people in America, which means, based on that, if you walk in any state of America, you would most likely see someone with a disability. As for canada, around 13-14% of all people (13.8 million people) had a disability.(as of 2012) Currently, 2 out of 10 adults have [some sort of disability, and the International Labor Organization (ILO) says that around 386 million workers all over the world have some kind of disability. handicap parking has been here since 1990, but it’s true roots are from