{"id":2329,"date":"2020-08-28T16:19:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2020-08-28T16:19:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:19:51","slug":"kayla-oconnell-blog-post-for-08-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/08\/28\/kayla-oconnell-blog-post-for-08-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayla O&#8217;Connell Blog Post for 08\/30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After reading the first chapter of \u201cA People\u2019s History of the United States\u201d by Howard Zinn, I was filled with disappointment. Throughout the first chapter,\u00a0 Zinn paints a portrait of Christopher Columbus &amp; other conquerors who exploited the people of their new conquered lands. Zinn describes the inhabitants as both kind and extremely generous with both their belongings and manpower. Despite their kind efforts, Columbus exploited, raped, burned, and killed these innocent people. Throughout the chapter, Zinn continues to illustrate the disgusting truth behind numerous other unethical acquisitions in the Americas. Sadly, many other historical pieces of literature continue to ignore the truth behind these different historical events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I reflect on these different events, one of Zinn\u2019s questions remains prominent in my mind. Zinn asks, \u201cWas all this bloodshed and deceit&#8230; a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilizations\u201d(17)? Although the Native Americans were forced into this new form of \u201ccivilization\u201d, they should have been given the choice. In fact, the destruction of these peoples didn\u2019t benefit their own civilization, but rather the white, European world. If Christopher Columbus and others never found the Americas, what would civilization look like today? I also have begun to question other important moments of history and how the removal of these events would have changed our society today. That goes to show how important historical events are to the formation of present day events. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the first chapter of \u201cA People\u2019s History of the United States\u201d by Howard Zinn, I was filled with disappointment. Throughout the first chapter,\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/08\/28\/kayla-oconnell-blog-post-for-08-30\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kayla O&#8217;Connell Blog Post for 08\/30<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4905,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}