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Impact of chrisopher columbus to America
Christopher Columbus, was born in genoa. Then he got a job at merchant ships. Christopher Columbus is widely acknowledged as the first European explorer to discover the Americas when he landed in late 1492. Although Columbus is said to have discovered the American continents and subsequent communication with Spain that led to ultimate travels to the Americas and colonization by European settlers, when he got to he found people who lived there. He first worked as a part of the crew on a merchant ship. He had stayed his crew until the day the boat sank at the coast of Portugal when the French privateers attacked the boat. He survived by floating on a piece of driftwood all the way to Lisbon where he went to school and studied navigation, astronomy, cartography and mathematics.
This is considered to be the place where he first came up with the idea of making a transatlantic voyage (Washington, 2013). Although he is acknowledged with discovering America, Columbus wasn't the first European to make a transatlantic voyage. It is believed that Viking Leif Eriksson made the journey from Europe to North America five centuries before Columbus's discovery of the America
Christopher Columbus being an explorer in the 15th century. He set off on his historic journey to Asia after convincing the king and queen of Spain to finance him. After discovering the new continent, he returned to the king and queen to report his discovery. This led to three continuous visits to help establish settlements in the America. He returned to Spain in 1504 to live out his days Between 1492 and 1504, Columbus made four different transatlantic voyages.
His voyages were sponsored by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I of Spain. In April of 1492, Columbus was given the title Admiral of the Ocean Sea and was enrolled in the Book of Privileges. After his visit to the new continent other voyage started arriving after him. Because of this he introduced a new phase of civilization (Conklin, 2013). Those who benefited from the resources and acquired land during colonization regarded him as a hero and cities were named after him. The USA honor him with the Christopher Columbus national holiday. historians, however, now take different view, and advocate for removal of the public holiday regarding his actions cruel because during colonization he introduced violence and subjugation.
Child labor and chocolate is about children that were or are surrounded by poverty which lead them start working at a tender age to help their families. Some children end up the cocoa farms because they need work (Ryan, 2013). Other children are sold to farm owners by their relatives not knowing the danger of the work or even the environment thus they lack education. Traffickers kidnap the young children from small villages and taken to the cocoa farms to work and that is always the end of them. Most of the children laboring on cocoa farms are between the ages of 12 and 16, although it goes down to 5 years of age. 40% of these children are girls, and some stay for months, while others end up working on the cocoa farms through adulthood. The girls face rape and molestation. They work from six in the morning and end at eight in the evening.
A child's workday typically begins at six in the morning and ends in the evening. Children at Cocoa farms often work up to 100 hours per week They use big, heavy, dangerous knives which are the standard tools for children on the cocoa farms, which violates international labor laws and a UN convention on eliminating the worst forms of child labor. Child workers are a part of cocoa industry, especially in Western Africa because poverty surrounds them, children work to help support their families. They are exposed to pesticides and use dangerous tools which often lead to injuries. They work the same as an adult laborer in the cocoa industry; but they are paid less. They do not have off days and when seen resting they are beaten (Stearman, 2012). Children work in cocoa farms because they need work to support their families. Traffickers lure them by telling them the jobs are easy and pay well. The traffickers have cars and thus lure the children with promises of prosperity. Sometimes families are too poor to feed their children. Traffickers lie to the them and children and tell them that their children will receive education and work skills. Most children are unable to escape because the farms are 100 of miles from the closest towns and are surrounded by forests and they do not have money to travel or buy food on their way.