compare and contrast the diffe
In my essay I compare and contrast the different ideas of de Vaca and Handsome Lake about Christianity. Both of them used Christianity in their writings as an element, however they had different viewpoints on it. De Vaca used it to treat people in a bad way like he sees them as miserable people, but Handsome Lake used it to treat people (Indians) in a better way. And I will try to prove these things in my essay. De Vaca behaved toward Indians very badly. When we read his text about "Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca" we can clearly understand his bad pattern of behavior and also we understand that he was always in war with Indians. The Christians destroyed the Indians land and burned their houses. He thought that this war was necessary. "Through the mercy of God, the wind did not blow from the north in all this time, otherwise I should have died." He believes in Christianity and he has strong religious beliefs. First of all he believes in God and he is thankful to Christianity and the protection of people by God in every conditions. He unfortunately thought that only with Christianity that things would reach in its best. In the book we can easily see that he saved all tribe from death. He prevented one tribe's extin
Indians are the people who live very calmly and in an isolated world of them. They live in tribes, they own land, they hunt and do agriculture in order to survive. They have different believes which are quite strange to outsiders. Handsome Lake as he
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Approximate Word count = 960
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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