In the Columbus poem, why are there parentheses around one line? Plus, you still have a mix of past and present tenses in there. Please make them either all present tense or all past tense.
The Chief Red Jacket poem ... wow!
Did he even know the Tainos?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C3%ADno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Jacket
You should also study his speech here:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/nativeamericans/chiefredjacket.htm
In addition, you need to get control over the verb tenses in the second poem, too. You're mixing past with future! What?
When you have redone these two poems, post them again.
I have to write a poem about Christopher Columbus and the tano's and I'm really stuck :( please help :(
Christopher Columbus:
My name is Columbus.
I had my first voyage in fourteen-ninety two.
I sailed across the ocean, big and blue.
With my three ships, Piñta, Nina, and ol’ Santa Maria from Spain,
We sail during cold shivering nights, sunlight, wind and rain.
On the day of October 12th 1492 the Pinta sees land so we set ashore.
We leave our boats and ships and explore.
We plant our anchors in the ground, securing them.
(There I found very many islands, filled with innumerable people.)
Fore then we unfurled the King and Queens banner, claiming the land.
The Indians do not argue with us.
For we were the people they gave their trust.
Chief Red Jacket:
The White people have found us.
The white people we have given our trust.
They will force their religion upon us.
They have claimed our country.
They are killing our people with their diseases.
They are starving our people.
The number of Taino’s grow low.
For the white people we gave trust, have taken our land.
Have over taken our people.
I don't how to write this ;-;
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Also ...
These ships' names are not quite right: "Piñta, Nina"
They should be Pinta and Niña.
These ships' names are not quite right: "Piñta, Nina"
They should be Pinta and Niña.
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