Columbus’s and Casas’s Journal Entries…

Columbus’s and Casas’s Journal Entries…

2 pages response paper

For this RP you will use especially a chapter from A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

The URL to the document is here:

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncol1.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)

Response Paper Options:
Answer just ONE of the following questions.

1) Zinn and Foner offer differing portrayals of the Columbus story and of colonization/imperialism in general. Discuss these portrayals, keeping in mind that Foner might be a bit more difficult to interpret because his version is presented in a bit more subtle (but no less biased) manner, while Zinn is not keeping any secrets regarding the motives and actions of Columbus, his men and other Europeans.

The questions that historians, and with the Columbus issue, cultural activists and critics, have been considering include the following:

2) Compare Columbus’s log entries with Las Casas’s journal entries.

a. Identify differences and similarities (e.g., how each describes the Arawaks).

b. Identify topics the other did not discuss.

c. What accounts for the differences? the similarities (their goals, their job functions, their status in relation to the other Spaniards)?

3) What sources are the textbook authors using? Pay special attention to Zinn’s sources; they give his history a certain credibility on this topic.

4) If communities share common interests, did Columbus and Las Casas belong to the same community? If so, what are their common interests? (What was Columbus in the Caribbean for? Las Casas?) If not, what interests separate them into different communities? Did Las Casas have more in common with the Arawaks than he did with Columbus?

This is requirments

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After you’ve read the assigned chapters for the week, consider writing a brief response to the material.
Use this as an opportunity to discuss some of the larger issues or themes in the readings. While you will need to re-state some of what is in the textbook as evidence for formulating your answer, you must elaborate on what you’ve read. Create an informed opinion.

Be sure to:
–answer the question
use only the textbooks to write your Response Paper unless otherwise instructed
provide specific examples from the textbooks for your statements
quote your sources (the textbooks)
cite your sources–provide page numbers

Notice in the class Schedule that while you only have to do 6 Module Activities, you have 7 opportunities to contribute to a Module Activity. I suggest that you not wait to do so. You’ll want to give yourself a cushion in case you have to miss an opportunity to turn in an RP or contribute to a discussion or in case one of your RPs is not accepted or you receive a low score on your discussion. If you choose to do 7 Module Activities, the instructor will not grade all 7. The first 6 will be counted toward your grade. The instructor will not count the seven best.

Submission Guidelines for Response Papers:
1. Deadlines for each Response Paper are listed in the schedule. NO LATE PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

2. You must use the following format for your Response Papers:
–Chapter Number:
–Module Number:
–The Question (copy the question that you are answering):
–Answer: (250-350 word answer).

3. Yes, your response must be between 250 and 350 words in length. When calculating word count, don’t include the heading or question in your count; count only the words in your actual answer.

4. For each Module, you will either
a) see a link to specific Response Paper prompts
OR
b) see a link to appropriate textbook chapter questions. In this case, you must choose to write your RP from chapters listed for the current week’s Module. You may not choose a question or prompt from a previous week’s Module or for a Module that we haven’t yet covered.

5. Answer just one question per module.

6.Not every RP is accepted.
The most common reasons RPs are not accepted:
a) The RP is too short.
b) The RP doesn’t evince that the student has followed the instructor’s advice given in a previous RP (eg.: Regarding your previous RP, the instructor said that in future RPs you need to quote sources and you don’t do so).
c) The RP doesn’t answer the question or address the issue.
d) The student does not do their own work on the RP. See the “Academic Standards” document in the Course Overview.

If your RP is not accepted, you MAY NOT REVISE it. You must move on to the next Module.

The textbook is the website I gave you

ANSWER PREVIEW

Q2. Compare Columbus’s log entries with Las Casas’s journal entries. Identify differences and similarities (e.g., how each describes the Arawaks).

Columbus’s log entries were different from Las Casas’s journal entries. Columbus’s description showed how the Arawaks were naive. In his journal entry, he described that “they do not bear arms, and do not know them” (Zinn, 2015 p. 1). This showed how they could not even fight back. Columbus later argued that few men of his …

 

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