Title: Should We Celebrate Columbus Day?
1Should We Celebrate Columbus Day?
- By Mr. Vuong
- Computer Class
- PowerPoint Presentation
www.orst.edu/Dept/philosophy/ ideas/92history.html
2Presentation Outline
- Who is Christopher Columbus?
- Yes, We should celebrate Columbus Day
- No, We should not celebrate Columbus Day
- Conclusion
3Who was Christopher Columbus?
- Genoa, Italy 1451
- Discovered America?
- Four Voyages
- Died May 20, 1506
www.orst.edu/Dept/philosophy/ ideas/92history.html
4Yes, We should Celebrate Columbus Day
- Civilized World
- Ideas and Achievements of Aristotle, Galileo,
Newton
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5Yes, We should Celebrate Columbus Day
- America was inhabited, unused, and undeveloped
- Life was short
- No language
- Little agriculture
tam.cornell.edu/basant/ digital.htm
6Yes, We should Celebrate Columbus Day
- Endless bloody wars
- Human sacrifices
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7Yes, We should Celebrate Columbus Day
- Dr. Christy Turner, Arizona State University.
- Indians in the Southwest engages in widespread
mass murder and torture. - Humans were butchered the same way as animals
8Yes, We should Celebrate Columbus Day
- What Columbus did to the native Indians were
wrong, but can we blame him? - Was he aware of what he was doing?
- Do we take the bad with the good?
9No, we should not celebrate Columbus Day
- Did he discovered America, no!
- Never set foot on American soil
- Natives were already here
- He discovered nothing
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10No, we should not celebrate Columbus Day
- Jack Weatherford, Anthropologist
- 1,200 Taino Indians sent to Spain
- Parades through the streets of Seville
- Sold as slaves in 1495
memory.loc.gov/.../ndlpedu/collections/
person/thinking.html
11No, we should not celebrate Columbus Day
- Lust for gold
- Forced natives to work as slaves
- Natives were beaten, raped, tortured and killed
- To celebrate Columbus Day is to celebrate a man
who is responsible for destroying countless lives
and entire cultures
projects.edtech.sandi.net/.../ genocidewebquest/pa
rt1.html
12Conclusion
- The decision to celebrate or blame Christopher
Columbus is difficult. Should we celebrate him
for opening America to the western civilized
world? Or should we condemned him for beating,
raping, and killing of native Indians? The
decision is yours.
www.vusd.k12.ca.us/washington/ decision.html