Atlantic Ocean

“In fourteen ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue”. This phrase is taught by elementary school teachers around the world. Christopher Columbus is said to be a world renowned hero, but is he really? Today the question is, Christopher Columbus, world hero or dark minded villain? In 1451 a soon to be hero was born unto the world in genoa Italy. Christopher Columbus the eldest son of Christian family father Domenico Columbo, and wool worker and merchant mother Susanna Fantanarossa.…

in 1897. As a young girl, Amelia and her sister spent a lot of time at their grandparents’ playing baseball, fishing, and activities that were not common for girls to participate in (“Amelia Earhart, 1897-1937: First Woman to fly Alone Across the Atlantic” 1). Amelia’s family moved many times because her father was an alcoholic and had a difficult time keeping a…

Every part of the process was undeniably violent. In Africa, salves were captured “in wars and raids conducted by African polities” (Empires 157). The voyage was notoriously deadly, as was the fated that awaited the salves on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The renowned Dutch East India trading company (VOC) used slaves to grow spices into the eighteenth century (Empires 160). The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, published in 1751, reported that the VOC “makes peace and war at…

their owners standing by them. They were preparing for a big storm. They know of the storm because a magic ring had told them that the storm was coming. It was 1980 in the South Atlantic Ocean, there was a storm that had been growing for 6 hours. A medical researcher named James Smith and his crew of 7 were out on the ocean that day transporting a herd of elephants. The elephants were going crazy destroying almost everything they could and some were killing themselves by walking off cliffs or…

Have you ever wondered what happened to the first woman that flew across the atlantic sea alone? Amelia Earhart was born on 24 July 1897 in Atchison, Kansas, the daughter of a lawyer Edwin Earhart. Amelia was a great rider, swimmer, tennis player, and shooter .She did her target practice with a .22 caliber rifle. She learned to read when she was four years old and since then, read many books, but was especially intrigued by adventure novels. As a result, despite her belonging to the “weaker sex”…

In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. His many voyages paved the way for European exploration. But did Columbus really discover the Americas on his own? No, it is known that millions of people lived in the Americas before Columbus. For most of human history, archaeologists have found modern humans originating from Africa about 400,000 years ago (Of The People, 4). During the last ice age, glaciers expanded that the sea level dropped and created a land bridge between Siberia in Asia and Alaska…

Iceland is located in the North Atlantic sea, near the arctic circle. Iceland is 40,000 square miles large, which is approximately the size of Virginia and Kentucky combined. Only around 20 percent of the island is inhabited, and it is smallest country in Europe based on population (Geography). Some refer to the island as the land of fire and ice due to the presence of both glaciers and volcanoes (Gunnarsdóttir, Nanna, 2016). Volcanoes can even be found beneath glaciers. Glaciers cover more than…

One explorer, in particular, stood out as a champion voyager at around this time, and his name was Christopher Columbus. This paper examines him as the person of interest in the discovery age and discusses his four trips made from Spain across the Atlantic…

reputations were built on the backs of African slaves (Bailey, 2011) Compare and Contrast In comparison, the New England and Southern colonies were very different, but also the same. They both had access to water from lakes and rivers as well as an ocean to sail between England and America. Both initial colonies came to America to begin a new life with aims at spreading a religion. After first landing in America, the colonies starved due to their unpreparedness. Religions were few at the…

I ran down stairs to get dressed. My mom, dad, and my little brother Danny were already down eating breakfast. “Guess what day it is!” said my mom. “It's April 14!” I exclaimed to my mom. Today we were going on a big adventure across the North Atlantic Ocean. The shuttle was going to take us to our cruise boat at 7am. I was a little bit nervous for our trip because I have never been on a boat before. My mom said to think of this trip as like we are in an apartment building except there is a…