Voyage Article Reviews Samples For Students

Article Review: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress

The article “Columbus, The Indians and Human Progress” by Howard Zinn presents real facts of the exploration and discovery of the world by Europeans and how they conquered and ruled over the world. The article throws light on the great misconception that the lands discovered and explored by European explorers were uncivilized bare wastelands. On the contrary these were the lands of great traditions, society and in many ways better than European civilizations. In many of the cases the atrocities shown by great personalities like Columbus is coveted instead of becoming a matter of concern for modern civilization. The article ...

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Introduction

As the sun rises in Southern New Mexico, the Galactic takes off from Spaceport America carrying spaceship two, which has six passengers and two crew on board, sky rocketing away from the earth’s surface. At about 50,000 feet, the WhiteKnightTwo has its cargo and eight passengers ready for the next phase of the voyage, where the SpaceshipTwo releases itself from WhiteKnighhtTwo and blasts into spaces with thrice the speed of sound. It reaches the outside atmosphere where there is no blue sky, and gravity is almost zero. The sky is pitch black, and the passengers glance ...

1497-1498

These journal entries written by Vasco de Gama relate incidents in his voyage from Africa to India (1497-1498 CE). He and his crew anchored at the Bay of St. Helena, present day South Africa. They remained there eight days to clean and make repairs on their ships. During their brief encounter with the natives of the bay Vasco de Gama and his men showed them a variety of items such as cinnamon, cloves and gold in an attempt to determine if such merchandise could be found in that region, but they soon realized that the natives were not acquainted ...

Dr.

Introduction
In the excerpt "John Wilkes Booth killed Lincolnbut who killed John Wilkes Booth?" Jesse Hicks probes the ever-so-more confounding mystery of the death of Lincoln’s assassin, the famous/infamous John Wilkes Booth.

Thesis

This paper details the account she posits in the aforementioned article - a factual delineation of the official version of the assassination, John Wilkes Booth’s alleged escape, arrest and murder, the speculation regarding the murdered man’s identity, an uncovering of hidden secrets, conspiracies and a forthcoming of the ‘unofficial’ version of history, the increasing interest in the case of historians on either side of ...