History Of Christopher Columbus: The Founder Of The Newfoundland

History they say is the study of past events; it is the body of knowledge about the past made known to us by historians. Whether it actually happened or they are just a made up stories written, by historians, is a fact we are yet to prove and since these events have no scientific value, its only purpose then is to educate. A popular quote says, “you can fool some people some of the time, but you can’t fool everybody all the time.” Historians and publishing companies have succeeded in modifying and manipulating history for so long, hereby giving students the wrong notion about history. If historians however fail to educate the public properly, but only modify or lie about the past, then all their historical learning is useless since it educates just them. History, although has no scientific value is also an important aspect to the

When comparing the class readings to the way these topics are portrayed, it is so easy to see the difference in the arguments. When we look at Chapter one of lies my teacher told me, we see how deceitful and cruel Christopher Columbus really was. This analysis of present articles opposes the general awareness that Christopher Columbus, who was heroified and called the founder of the Newfoundland because a modified version of his history was described in history text books. Due to these differences in the perspectives of articles, it has been established that the understanding of the subject of history has resulted into high level of difficulties in establishing the actual events that took place at a particular time interval. When describing historical events such as the journey of Christopher Columbus, it is established that there is a sharp contrast regarding the actual processes through which his journey occurred across the Atlantic Ocean compared with the views that have been expressed in a number of history