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In the movie The Dark Knight (2008), the District Attorney Harvey Dent, had 2 faces. One was good, one was evil. But, when we set him side by side to Christopher Columbus, we cannot deduce any good side of him. Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer, who was sponsored by the Spanish Kingdom, was guilty of multitudinous charges that include mass genocide, initiating transatlantic slavery, harsh treatment of workers and torture. The first time Columbus set foot on the New World, he encountered a native population called the Arawak. As they were very hardworking, friendly and amiable, they, without hesitation traded supplies, jewelry and food, some of which, were transported through the Columbian Exchange to the Old World. Columbus even wrote …show more content…

This cruel method was set up by Columbus for the reason that at the beginning, the Arawaks weren’t that disposed to reveal to him where the gold was situated at. Consequently, he organized an arrangement which functioned like the following; All Arawaks over the age of 14, provided that they desired to keep their limbs or even their lives, had to collect a large “hawk’s bell” of gold powder or 11 kilograms of cotton within the limits of 3 months. If they were fortunate with their findings, they received a metal token which indicated that they had kept their “freedom”for another 3 months, during which, they start gathering gold dust or cotton for the following …show more content…

Columbus didn’t just oppress and torture people, he also was quite fascinated by the sexual outlook of slavery. By assessing a letter written by Michele de Cuneo, “Columbus was rewarding his lieutenants with women to rape.” Unshockingly, being the vile and disgusting man he was, Columbus even wrote casually in his log, "A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand." Moreover, it is also worth noting that the Spanish soldiers murdered, dismembered, or raped over 2000 natives a

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This growing evidence has shown that Christopher was not a great guy. He was not the man that we thought of growing up. Christopher was known to sell young Native American girls into slavery. Many men who bought these young girls were very harsh to them. The girls would have been beaten and forced to do anything their owner would want them to do.

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Columbus, who was brave and admiring, had a different route to Asia led the journey west came upon the new yet to be explored American continents. According to Document E, it states, “His conquest of Atlantic the outer space of the fifteenth century - is as meaningful to the Americans of the space age as it was to our forefathers who pushed across the vast expenses of this continent.” This quote shows how Columbus’s conquest was an important milestone in the achievements of people of his time and even today. Despite his famous discovery, one of the main reason to set sail for this conquest was Columbus’s greed for riches and fame. In Document A, it states, “I was very attentive to them, and strove to learn if they had any gold.”

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Christopher Columbus Hero or Villain ? Christopher Columbus is a Villain. On some accounts he can be a Hero. But on many other accounts he's a vicious Villain. Yes he discovered America ;

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This shows how Columbus's crew, as well as him killed for amusement. Not only that he liked to kill in brutal ways like mutilation or being ripped apart by dogs. My second reason why Christopher Columbus was a villain was because was because of his involvement in the keeping thousands of

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America’s citizens are often very patriotic and love to celebrate those that have helped make their great nation, Columbus, supposedly, being one of these people. However, it is quite astonishing that Columbus Day is even celebrated as a patriotic holiday, considering all of the terrible things he did to the indigenous people of the New World. Citizens all over America express many different beliefs about the world, but the vast majority have a universal belief that murder and cruelty are wrong, so why celebrate a man who practically specialized in unnecessary, unprovoked cruelty. Many know the arrival of Europeans on American soil was terrible for the Native Americans, but few know the role Columbus himself played in the cruelty indigenous people

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As Arthur M. Schlesinger said in Columbus on Trial, European culture has "its share of monsters and atrocities" and that civilizations who had many conquests "did not show anything like concern for moral behavior and treatment of others" (Document 6). Ultimately, European explorers, conquistadors, and settlers from the Age of Exploration should not still be glorified and celebrated because they caused more harm than good, and tore apart others just to make a name for

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He later returned to the New World, but this time ready for war. He demanded the Lucayan people to hand over their food, gold, and woman. When they refused, Columbus and his men, would torture the Natives by cutting off their ears and noses. However, Columbus still was not satisfied, as he did not quite find the tresures he was looking for, so he captured 500 Lucayans and brought them back to be sold in the slave trade.

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Evidence: “When slavery did not pay off, Columbus turned to a tribute system, forcing every Taíno, 14 or older, to fill a hawk’s bell with gold every three months” (Huffington Post). Evidence: If the Taínos failed to complete the mission, “Columbus ordered that Taíno be ‘punished,’ by having their hands chopped off, or they were chased down by attack dogs” (Huffington Post). Acknowledgement: Columbus had to fulfill his

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The day Christopher Columbus step foot in the Americas, he began to manipulate the natives he saw. While they saw him as a potential friend, Columbus saw them as fine slaves that could lead him to what he really wanted － gold. When he found out how naive and friendly they were being with him, he started to take advantage of that fact. He forced them to show him where the treasure was, for his own selfish reasons.

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So while his actual story is presented and accepted as fact, details about his personality and treatment of Indians are not. It may be that the men with Christopher created lies to make him look bad on purpose as well, therefore there is no way to know what really

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According to Loewen, few textbooks explained how Columbus was involved in the slavery and the exploitation of Indians. Another error that we have learned in schools about Columbus is that he was the first person to “discover” America. However, this is an error because people from other continents had already reached America before 1492. In fact, we forget

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People have very different opinions on Christopher Columbus. My opinion is he was a very greedy man, the only thing he cared about was money. He would do anything possible to get it, even if he was already rich he would want more and more. Some things he did was took 10% of any riches in a land he might discover. Also, he didn't care whose flag he was sailing under, he only cared about getting the money.

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The film that will be analysed is ‘The Dark Knight’ which is a drama/ crime film directed by Christopher Nolan, which was released on the 16th of July 2008. The director is trying to convey good vs evil through Lighting, sound, props, costumes, setting, camera angles and camera shots. The main characters in ‘The Dark Knight’ are Batman/ Bruce Wayne (Christen Bale), Harvey Dent/ Two-face (Aaron Eckhart), Joker (Heath Ledger), Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman). The scenes which will be investigated are Wayne’s party, the SWAT car chase and Jokers interrogation.

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During the late 1400s and the early 1500s, European expeditioners began to explore the New World. Native Americans, who were living in America originally, were much different than the Europeans arriving at the New World; they had a different culture, diet, and religion. Eventually, both the Native Americans and the European colonists exchanged different aspects of their life. For example, Native Americans gave the Europeans corn, and the Europeans in return gave them modern weapons, such as various types of guns. This type of trade was called “the Columbian Exchange.”

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