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Christopher Columbus Case

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I would say Adam and Eve defined how human beings became knowledgeable and concretely conscious about evil. Their act of eating the forbidden fruit caused the people to believe on the traditional belief that man is the source of evil in his self and that all man have sinned because of the action of the a woman that they have a kind of fault which is strictly forbidden to be done. When we go deeper in the story they compare the snake that was in the Garden of Eden which was Satan with the bad twin. Just like satan Everything the bad twin attempted to create seemed to be a failure when compared to what the good twin made which represented God. So it seems everything he does is meant to counter what the good twin does. He tries to take all of the animals away from the humans but, the good twin is more powerful then the bad twin so, he just brings them back. A letter which Don Christopher Columbus, viceroy and admiral of the Indies, wrote to the most Christian and most mighty king and queen of Spain, our sovereigns, in which he notified them of that which had occurred on his voyage, and of the lands, provinces, cities and rivers, and other marvellous things, and where there are mines of gold in great abundance, and other things of great richness and value. A generation earlier, Barlow's The Vision of Columbus (1787) -- an epic-style poem rarely read today -- imagined the explorer as blessed, at the end of his life, with a Mount Pisgah-like vision of an American promised-land future. Throughout the Western Hemisphere, cities, universities, rivers, and a country were named for him -- and in pious and prophetic robes, he is memorialized with countless statues and courthouse frescoes.

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