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Monday, September 8, 2008

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My friggin blogger thing won't allow me to post my caption containing my information about the picture and how it relates to myessay (which was late because I have no internet >.<) so I am creating a new post.

The immigrant picture displays how America is being hypocritical when claiming they want all illegal aliens out of the country when, in fact, all persons in America are foregin to this country in some form of fashion. When Columbus "discovered" America, he seized the land from the native inhabitants, Native Americans, and claimed it as his. There, he was treated like royalty during the first and second voyage, but on the thiird and fourth, his name became disgraced with the harsh treatment his rebellious crew members had put him through (They resented his authority and felt he should no longer be in charge of commanding the ship and crew members.)
Native America went from a thriving land of growing crops, land, animals, and people to a bloody and disorderly land taken by forced seizure of Spainards. War and death soon followed afterward as a result to Columbus' discovery and it was all for financial gain that would soon lead to fued between nation over a piece of land that wasn't thier's to begin with.
My essay was a argumentative piece claiming that if Columbus hadn't discovered America, his honor would have stayed in tact, spanish sailors never would have lost their lives over a war between Native Americans and Spain, World fued over the American land never would have divided allies, and Native Americans would have stayed on their turf as the rightful owners of the American land. There is so much argument about illegal aliens in America and how America should only be for Americans. Americans themselves are immigrans and the Narive Americans are the original inhabitants of this land we reside on. Columbus' discovery not only tarnished his reputation but the future reputation of the American people as well. Our blind iggnorance to how we acquired this land demeans our intelligence to the point where our protests and bills aiming to be passed as laws preventing the importation of immigrants makes us seems like inarticulate hypocrites.
Columbus' discovery of America, although it had some cons out of a numer of pros, came at a price he had to pay with cruel treatment and temporary enslavement amongst crew memebers, But Native Americans lost their land, their respect, their dignity, and their entire culture as everything they once knew and lived on became stripped from them by once person who claimed he discovered the Indies for profitable gain. If Columbus hadn't discovered America, all warfare, iggnorant rivalry, meaningless conflict over land, and ethnic tension could have been avoided. America was stolen from the Natives and all inhabitants of America that are not decendents of those natives are aliens in themselves.

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