Reflection on Heat wave Video

The Chicago Heat Wave videos were interesting.  A part that really interested me was the effects it had on different areas of the city.  The obvious was how it effected the poorer areas more and the rich less.  Like we talked about if you went up to someone who was wealthier at that time and asked them if they remembered it, they most likely wouldn't.  I asked my mom and dad about it and they said they don't remember a big deal about it but they remember warnings about the heat.  My parents lived in lincon park then like they do now and that was one of the areas that was hardly effected.  When I talked to them about it they said there was a area near lincon park that they remember having a big issue.  My dad said he remembers people sleeping by lake michigan to stay cool.  My 26 year old sister said she remembered kids staying inside because of the extreme heat.  I think that because of this event that happened that our city has become more aware of the heat.  New york didn't have as many deaths because they were more prepared in the long run.  They had that heat before and knew what to do with it and also they knew the heat was coming their way.  The heat hit Chicago unexpectedly and thats why there were so many deaths.

Christopher Columbus's Impact on the World

Christopher Columbus had many different impacts in the long and short term when he arrived to America.   One of the hardest part of getting there was finding a wiling crew to travel the waters with him.  The majority of his crew were people who had a reason to leave Spain.  So that meant a lot of criminals.  It all started out as a a shock to arrive in a new land that was thought to be india.  When he got to America he found out the large amount of resources and quickly returned to Spain to explain his findings.  When Spain found out, all of Europe started to hear of this new found land.  Franch, Spain, and England then started heading towards America.  Natives of America were slaughtered by the Europeans.  The scramble for land then began, pushing the Natives into smaller and smaller spaces.  In the future the government would provide preserves for the Natives.  But over time they would get smaller and smaller because of the Land grabs.  Yet all of the settlers from Europe was the first step of the development of the America today.  So you could say that Columbus was the founder of America in one impacts, and also the apocalypse for the Natives.
      Columbus in my eyes is a good man.  His intent wasn't to rid the Natives of America in the first place, he wasn't even trying to go to America.  His set path was to India but he never made it.  When he got to America, he found good resources and good land so his first idea was to claim it.  It did start the land grab but i think if lets say America found a large amount of land with need resources then they would try to claim it if it was scarcely habited.