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10/12/2020

Daily Literary Quote
“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.”
-James Joyce

Journal Prompt
Take a look at this article from The Oatmeal. What are some issues with the myth that Christopher Columbus "discovered" the Americas? Explain. Do you think Columbus should be honored with a holiday in the United States? Why or why not?

56 Comments

Karissa

10/12/2020 12:10:26 pm

I do because he stood for what he believed

Joey

10/12/2020 12:11:44 pm

I think he should not be the one to celebrate our holiday because I believe that he definitely wasn’t the first person to come or discovered the United States

Nicki

10/12/2020 12:16:35 pm

I agree

Matt Baldwin

10/12/2020 12:13:47 pm

I think Christopher Columbus would be proud if he knew how we celebrated. The stories that he was a nice guy are all not true and I think he would rather the elementary version of the story be told and have a holiday to himself.

Zane

10/12/2020 12:15:38 pm

Yea your not wrong

Kendall

10/12/2020 12:16:17 pm

True

Sammy

10/12/2020 12:17:58 pm

I agree. This is my opinion too.

Wyatt Linger

10/12/2020 12:18:44 pm

I can agree!

Jordan

10/12/2020 12:20:35 pm

Very well put.

Tori

10/12/2020 12:14:42 pm

I don’t think we should have a holiday for him due to him not discovering the new but I do think we should give him some credit for pushing to moving to the new land.

Avery Cole

10/12/2020 12:16:03 pm

Very well put!

Taylee Matthews

10/12/2020 12:16:55 pm

I like that I so agree

Gage Bill

10/12/2020 12:17:25 pm

I agree

Gage Bill

10/12/2020 12:14:46 pm

He was a bad dude because he came in and changed North America but it was going to happen anyways if it wasn’t him I would’ve been someone else

Zane

10/12/2020 12:16:23 pm

Yea your right

Wyatt Linger

10/12/2020 12:17:34 pm

That is so true

Faith

10/12/2020 12:17:41 pm

This is good!

Jordan

10/12/2020 12:20:56 pm

I definitely agree.

Zane

10/12/2020 12:14:46 pm

So Columbus is a meany and we all should know that. He shouldn’t get a holiday, instead the holiday should be renamed native peoples day where we celebrate and mourn the old cultures that influence the new

Tori

10/12/2020 12:16:00 pm

I like your idea of changing the name.

Lani

10/12/2020 12:16:41 pm

That's honestly a really good idea.it would certainly be a better holiday to celebrate

Sammy

10/12/2020 12:18:39 pm

I think this is a good idea.

Harli

10/12/2020 12:14:51 pm

Christopher Columbus wasn’t the first person to discover America. Natives were here way before Columbus came upon it. I personally don’t think there should be a holiday in his name for “being the first to discover America.”

Avery Cole

10/12/2020 12:16:37 pm

I completely agree.

Faith

10/12/2020 12:16:56 pm

Greats insight!

Brooke

10/12/2020 12:18:53 pm

I agree with this.

Avery Cole

10/12/2020 12:14:58 pm

I don’t think he should have a whole holiday, but he was one of them men that lead the expedition to America. He definitely doesn’t deserve all the credit and a holiday to himself.

Taylee Matthews

10/12/2020 12:17:13 pm

I 100% agree

Faith

10/12/2020 12:15:09 pm

I think he should not be celebrated. He was not the first person to discover the U.S. Also he is a very terrible person.

Brooke

10/12/2020 12:19:11 pm

He was wasn’t he.

Lani

10/12/2020 12:15:11 pm

I dont think Columbus should be celebrated like he is because he came to the Amercas and enslaved and killed natives. It's a pointless holiday and by now the meaning of it has been lost anyway.

Joey

10/12/2020 12:18:10 pm

I think this is true

Kendall

10/12/2020 12:15:15 pm

The flaws of Columbus Day is to celebrate Christopher Columbus because he sailed to the New World and had found it. He faced some challenges by running into Indians and different types of diseases. So therefore he should be celebrated for finding the New World where everyone could go and celebrate him.

Kendall

10/12/2020 12:17:30 pm

Hadn’t *

Sammy

10/12/2020 12:15:37 pm

Christopher didn't "discover" America. There were already indigenous people living here. I think he should be know for traveling here and starting a new age society but not honored with his own holiday. He was cruel and came for the gold to please the queen.

Caden

10/12/2020 12:15:46 pm

He wasn’t the first person to the United States, technically he never landed in the USA, and so I don’t believe he should have his own holiday, sure it’s an important moment in history but not important enough to have a holiday for it

Anthony

10/12/2020 12:20:21 pm

Agreed, he never lived here.

Nicki

10/12/2020 12:16:10 pm

I think that we should absolutely not honor him, he didn't do anything. He descoverd somthing that was already being inhabited. If anything we should honor the thousands of native Americans that were murdered because of him.

Wyatt Linger

10/12/2020 12:16:14 pm

Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover America for the Vikings were first in their discovery of it years before so he was not the first, also the native Americans who lived there knew about it from a time we aren’t sure of yet before that. So he can’t discover something that is already discovered. Yet it is not a myth that he found another continent that Europe was unaware of. Yes it should be a honored holiday because he was the first to entice countries to settle in America, that led to us having the country that we have today.

Colton

10/12/2020 12:16:36 pm

I believe columbus should be celebrated. The flaw with the myth is columbus discovered what had already been inhabited and he wanted the land purely for the gold and better trade routes.

Emily

10/12/2020 12:18:05 pm

Columbus defiantly wasn't the first to discover America so we should not have a holiday celabrating it.

Anthony

10/12/2020 12:18:42 pm

Yeah that pretty much sums it up.

Anthony

10/12/2020 12:18:10 pm

There are many reasons in this article that say why Colombo was awful. I would have to get more opinions but I believe he and his holiday is over rated. He did not discover the America’s because there where already people living there. “He discovered the Americas like the meteor discovered the dinosaurs.”

Brooke

10/12/2020 12:18:28 pm

He didn’t even fully discover the new world there was already life here. He just wanted the money and to be known for a “discovery” cause his life wasn’t doing so well. I feel like they should change the name to something involved with native Americans since they were here and was treated really bad by Columbus.

Miriam

10/12/2020 12:23:11 pm

It’s true that he was just in it for the money and the fame.

Jordan

10/12/2020 12:19:52 pm

I don't think columbus should have a holiday because he did not discover the new world and was not a very nice guy but was super greedy. He should have some credit for wanting to and moving to the new world, but not much.

Taylee Matthews

10/12/2020 12:19:54 pm

I believe that the whole holiday should not be celebrated about him. He wasn’t the first person to discover it. Yes he should have credit for being on the journey. But I think it should not be just about him.

Miriam

10/12/2020 12:21:38 pm

I agree with you fully.

Emma Dahle

10/12/2020 12:24:03 pm

You have a great point that he technically was not the first person to discover America.

Lexi A

10/13/2020 12:11:49 pm

I like your point of view

Miriam

10/12/2020 12:21:08 pm

I believe that Columbus should be taught in our history book because he started a new era. On the other side of that I think that there is no
reason why it needs to be a national Halliday.

Emma Dahle

10/12/2020 12:23:02 pm

I agree he should be taught in history but should not have a holiday.

Emma Dahle

10/12/2020 12:21:20 pm

Columbus should not be honored by a holiday. He was originally set to find another area of the world and happened to run across America. While he did find this land in the process, Columbus did awful things to the natives and all the people he came across.

Lexi A

10/13/2020 12:11:27 pm

I agree in this, very well said

William

10/12/2020 12:24:33 pm

History from that period has a lot of holes and inconsistencies, sometimes villains are championed while others are forgotten. Columbus is just an example of a gold-seeking villain from that period who somehow ended up being championed as a hero-discoverer.

Lexi A

10/13/2020 12:10:55 pm

I feel like he shouldn’t be as celebrated as he is. He gets more credit than is deserved as he wasn’t the first to discover the Americas. He was just the first from his world. He brought two worlds together

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