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发表于 2008-2-18 00:23:14 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

TOPIC: ISSUE48 - "The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten."

Do the individuals or the people whose names have long been forgotten play a more important role in the most important events and trends in history? The speaker claims so. However, I would agree that it is the individuals are more significant and necessary for those events and trends, and thus study on those individuals is dispensable.

It is true that the most participants whose identities were forgotten in history are necessary for those critical events. Without them, individuals who are leaders or have a significant role in those revolutions, war, or other events could not be as success as they were. Thus, if one historian does not concern the importance of the public, he could fail in explaining the beginning, development and the end of an event. As Chairman Mao, the first leader of PRC once said: "The power of people is mighty and invincible." This could indicate how significant role the Chinese people played in eliminating invaders in the middle of the last century.

Nevertheless, when studying history, researches on those groups of people who are in the events and trends is not effective enough. Historians, who are trying to explain and find the reasoning of a specific event in the past, do not have enough records and documents on every individual who belongs to the large amount of people. Thus, researchers can only search for the only files about several typical persons, or groups and discover their attitudes and actions in the event. For example, by studying court records in medieval Europe, we could understand a major reaction of people that time when they are debating on the court. Thus, it is unnecessary for us to emphasize major people in the history.

On the other hand, we have adequate reasons to emphasize those major individuals in the events. First, there are enough documents on those individuals, for example, autography, biographies, material documents, letters, public speaking or even secret orders. By scrutinize those documents, historians could have a inner aspect on him or her, understanding why he or she stands as he or she stands, why he or she give such a speech, how did he or she get to his or her position; in addition, by deeply understand one's thought, historians could have more detailed view on one event than studying many people and just have vague aspects on those people. Second, the individuals who were given significant attention possibly do have a essential influence on a certain incident, if so, to study the incident, it is necessary to study the influence and thus we need to know the his or her purpose, actions and attitudes. Therefore, if one does not pay one's attention on studying on these individuals, he or she would neglects important information on these events and trends.

In a nutshell, when we are trying to study the history trends and events, emphasize on individuals are more important and effective than study people whose identities have long been forgotten.

个人感觉:写的跟poop一样...限时50分钟没写完，又改了好久...