Final Assignment History Due November 19
Assignment: A Final Research Project will be due by Sunday night on Week 13 of the class at 11:55PM. The project will require the student to produce a scholarly research paper on any approved topic of his/her choice which covers any time period between colonization and Reconstruction. This topic will need to be approved by the facilitator by the end of Week 10. The paper will be 8-10 pages in length excluding the Title, Abstract, and References page. In other words, the body of the paper must be 8-10 pages in length. The Title, Abstract and References page is in addition to this requirement. A minimum of ten (10) academic sources will need to be used and it is highly encouraged that the student uses a combination of primary and secondary sources and all must be cited and listed in accordance with the current APA format issued at the time this course is offered.
What I would like to write about: For the Final Research Project, I will be covering the topic of colonization. More specifically, when Christopher Columbus traveled to what we now call America and discovered that there were in fact people living here and they had their own language and their own trading system. He wanted to learn the way that the natives worked and how they had lived on this so called new land that he had “discovered”. He wanted to learn how he could bring his people over from England, and teach them how to live just like the natives did for so long. The reason I picked this topic specifically, is because we all have to ask ourselves how we got to where we are now. It is interesting to me how so long ago, Christopher sailed the ocean blue to find a new trading route to China, but instead found this fantastic place we call home. I have found numerous things about Christopher Columbus that i did not know before doing the research for my Final Research Project. One is that he was convinced that he had landed in Asia. He saw the natives and the land and it gave him the idea that he landed in Asia. Another thing i did not know about him, is that when he got sent back to Spain, he was sent back in chains and shackles. The Spanish saw the way he treated the natives and thought that it was to brutal and harsh. So he went to Spain and was in jail for six weeks, then the king let him go and pardoned him afterwards
Source that I had to turn in: My second source that I will be using for the Final Research Project is howardzinn.org/columbus-lens-of-history. Although now two of my sources are from Howard Zinn, he is a very respected author in the History field and has many books on Christopher Columbus and he journey two the new land. I choose this source because it covers what Christopher Columbus had to go through when he landed on the new land. It covers what the Indians went through and what they had to do to stay alive. This source contributes to the project by giving me the information on the Indians
Another source that I had to turn in: For my third source, I will be using christopher-columbus.eu/voyage-1.htm. I am using this source because it goes into why Christopher Columbus took his first voyage and how he got back. It does not go into what happened when he got to this new land that he had discovered, but it goes into why and how. I think this source contributes to the Final Report Project because it can be used to see why he wanted to take the voyage in the first place. We all have different views of why he took it. Most believe it was for the money from the new land. Others believe that he wanted to find a new trading route to China.
