Christopher Columbus is quite a controversial figure, being called a national hero and a ruthless and greedy imperialist. His logical and geocraphical ideas of a westward route to Asia were brought by the literature he read. To gain support for his project, he would attemt and fail a few times befor...

Ordinary Men In Ordinary Men, Christopher Browning discusses Police Battalion 101 and the men involved within it. He shows that these men were "ordinaryÕ, just like you and I, not the scum of the earth. Browning writes about the feelings of these "ordinary" men during each killing operation th...

Columbia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Columbia in 1830. A fourty year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Columbian government escalated during the 1990s, under girded in part by funds from the drug trade. Although the violence is deadly and large swath...