Christopher Columbus Research(Yijia Wu)

Yijia Wu(Miller)

English 1110.01, MWF 10:20–—11:15

Professor: Cathy Ryan

Assignment: Christopher Columbus Research

March 10th, 2017

1. Appleby, Joyce. ”Christopher Columbus unleashed curiosity.” UCLA.EDU. Web. 16 Oct 2013. <http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/columbus-unleashed-curiosity-248979>

Note: “Over the two centuries that followed Columbus’ initial voyage, robust questioning about the nature of the world turned an inward society outward, fueling an inquisitiveness that would eventually carry Europeans around the world.”

Abstract: This passage discuss about Columbus’s contribution to the Uncharted Era.

2.Desai, Christina. “The Columbus Myth: Power and Ideology in Picturebooks about Christopher Columbus.” Children’s Literature in Education, vol. 45, no. 3, Sept. 2014, pp. 179-196. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s10583-014-9216-0.

Note: “It is not difficult to discover that the reality was quite different. Columbus probably was born in Genoa. He did go to sea at a young age and educated himself in geography, astronomy, and navigation. He did plead for royal support and Court advisors did scoff. They, like other educated people of the time, understood that the earth is round, but were correct in thinking that Asia was too far from Europe to reach by sailing west. The crewmen were right to fear they might never see land again. Columbus did yearn for the glory of discovery but also for gold, and lots of it.”

Abstract: This passage talk about the life of Columbus in general and several great events of him.

3.MAYERS, KATHRYN M. “Christopher Columbus’s Naming in the Diarios of the Four Voyages (1492-1504): A Discourse of Negotiation.” Hispanofila, no. 176, Jan. 2016, pp. 216-218. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1353/hsf.2016.0017.

Note: “Christopher Columbus’s Naming breaks new ground. The study demonstrates clearly how the names produced through Columbus’s continual effort to negotiate between American, Asian, and European landscapes, visions, and nomenclatures produced a hybrid, transoceanic landscape that has gone unrecognized in theories that have thus far seen imperial naming as an act that annihilated and then invented over a tabula rasa a new (European) world order.”

Abstract: This passage mainly talk about the specific voyage that Columbus took.

4. Shean, Jack. “Christopher Columbus.” PSU.EDU. Web. 16, Oct 2015. <http://sites.psu.edu/jshean/2015/10/16/christopher-columbus/>

Note: “Columbus proposed the idea of sending an expedition west instead of south in an effort to reach Asia by circumnavigating the earth. Contrary to popular belief most European’s knew the world wasn’t flat. So Columbus’ round world theory was not at all revolutionary.” Demonstrating that Columbus has different perspective when comparing to others, which is a gift.

Abstract: This passage’s idea is about Columbus’s life in general.

5. Columbus, Christopher. “Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493” Web. <https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/exploration/resources/columbus-reports-his-first-voyage-1493>

Note: “In the island, which I have said before was called Hispana, there are very lofty and beautiful mountains, great farms, groves and fields, most fertile both for cultivation and for pasturage, and well adapted for constructing buildings. The convenience of the harbors in this island, and the excellence of the rivers, in volume and salubrity, surpass human belief, unless on should see them.” This is the first fortune and experience of taking a long voyage when Columbus was still a young captain.

Abstract: This passage mainly discuss Columbus’s first voyage.

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