Everyone in this world is presumptuous. Whether we like to admit it or not, everyone has been selfish in their life; writers like Christopher Columbus, John Smith, and William Bradford are guilty of this. Through their writing, we see how much they were influenced by their perspective. While John Smith seemed to be very selfish and Bradford selfless, when you look at their situation it seems almost inevitable that they would write this way. Because these authors knew they would go down in history, they wrote in a way that made them seem like the main characters so they could take all the credit. Christopher Columbus, Captain John Smith, and William Bradford were different people in terms of bearing, and this was evident through their personal writings. Christopher Columbus knew that what he was doing was revolutionary and would end up in the history books after his voyage. However, Christopher Columbus was not the most altruistic explorer. Since Christopher Columbus knew that other people would read his accounts, he wanted to make sure it looked like it...