After reading this lecture about Lieutenant Nun, i just realised that she was a brave woman but also a desperate one. First of all, I think this kind of adventure started in the first place because her parents listed her as a nun and this was a very common thing in those times. The second and the most important one that I am going to talk about later is that she had this very soldier thing attached to herself because her parent was a captain so i deduce that she wanted to be like him but she never spoke about this.

I also perceive many thoughts from Catalina De Erauso that shows anger in a very first place because when she started to travel and received help from other guys like her uncle, she always had to do bad things like flirting with other girl and did not care about consequences, she was a rebel young girl to me.

A very important thing in this lecture is that she wanted to be a soldier or a fighter because of two main causes: She was travelling in one of the most powerful countries in those years (in which period women were not treated as free women) and the second one she wanted to be treated as a man, you can notice that she was always following and seeking for men jobs.

I need to say that it caused to me the same feeling as when I was reading Christopher Columbus, she was not a hero at all because she always wanted to seek advantage from anyone, like stealing money or for example when playing as a gambler she did not how to control her anger and of course always causing problems to other people.

Finally, comparing this lecture and the last one I found that religion was a very important matter in both lectures because two of the main characters used this to show that they were benevolent (at the end or were they in trouble) but that was not true.

Ultimately, i have these 3 questions that I would like to know:

1. What was the main reason that she wrote her biography by herself?
2. Why she did not talk to her parents about being a warrior?
3. We can see by her actions that religion was very important to her… So, why did she decided to be a soldier?

After reading this amazing lecture i just realized that Cristopher Columbus was a great leader and of course, his most important characteristic was loyalty at least for me, this is because he always was doing lots of things thinking of his majesties, and not by himself at all. Among other things, he also used to see people in a not very good way, it was obvious that he just wanted people to work for him, i might think he sees them as objects and not for their true value, i mean we all are humans in front of God.

But i think that the most important thing was his religious, he used to say thanks to God for every action, no matter time and circunstances he was a very passionate, loyal and religious person.

I also noted that distances in Columbus journeys were very tired for all members of his crew, but instead of saying desperate thigs to them, Cristopher always acted in a very enthusiastic way, thing which was very useful for his journeys and of course, the main reason of this is that he was giving hope to all of the people that he was leading in this mission.

On the other hand, Cristopher Columbus goals besides gold of course, were religion and language. When he was conquering or visiting some place he always started to think on how those people from those lands could be useful for his own matters, and he was trying to see them as how will they serve to his majesties by knowing spanish and in the mean time by showing their true loyalty through this faith that i mentioned before.

Also, one thing that i noticed is that people from Latin America is also related with Cristopher Columbus because both of them have same characteristics, focused on religion and language.

Questions
1) What was the main reason of Columbus obsession with religion?
2) What was the main reason that Columbus always wanted to be very loyal to his majesty?
3) Why he used to see people as things and not like humans?

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Hello, my name is Adrian Gonzalez and im studying Law at “Tec de Monterrey”. First of all, I am from Monterrey, Mexico which is near from Texas, United States of America. I arrived here in Vancouver 1 week ago, and i really like this city for many reasons, I mean the life, people, weather, among other things. Im really excited about this class because i really want to know how the canadians and people who is living here think about countries like Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador and of course where i come from, which is Mexico.
On the other hand, I have traveled to some interesting cities, things that i like to do, for example Madrid, Prague, Cracow, Budapest, Rome and some other cities.
One of my favorite things that I like is politics, i enjoy reading about these kind of things which are so important in Mexico right now, and of course what is happening in neighbours contries like the U.S. in this precisely moment.