Issue48 写在牛年除夕，求拍 by ieyangj08

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Issue48
The study of history places too much emphasis on individual. 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.

Who is maker of history, the famous few or the nameless groups of people? In my view, the latter played a more important role than the former in the process of history making, although they have left little markers in the history of mankind. Admittedly, the leaders or the representations of the people, the famous few, contributed a lot to the significant trends and events in history; however, it is the groups of people who are the wisdom resource, the direction decider, and the effective executors of the famous individuals.

In the first respect, the illustrious achievements of the significant individuals are mostly based on the wisdom of their predecessors and their contemporaries. History is replete with examples of this assertion. Li Shizhen, a famous doctor in the Ming dynasty in China, wrote the great medical work, Ben Cao Gang Mu , which described in detail thousands of medicinal materials and greatly influenced the medicine development of China. In writing his book, he need to get tremendous useful information about the medicinal materials, most of which were from plenty of patients, preceding doctors and his contemporaries. In other words, we can say Li Shizhen is just the summarizer of those people’ wisdom and experience, and it is the numerous nameless people who are the real editors of the famous medical work, Ben Cao Gang Mu. There also still many other similar examples in politics, science and other realms to illustrate this point, from which we can conclude countless people are the real wisdom power of the major historical events.

In the second respect, at many historical turning, it often seems that important individuals were the direction choosers of history, however, actually they were so strongly influenced by the most people’s will that we can even say that it is the groups the people who decide the direction of history. We are known that only when the significant historical individuals got support from numerous people, can they finally achieve great success. For this purpose, the famous few should stand on the side representing the interest of the most people, and act in the direction reflecting the will of numerous people. The president selection in United States is a proper example to illustrate this point. During this political war, every candidate will fully advocate that if they were selected they will solve problems of the serious unemployment, the slow increase of the finances, the nation security problem and so on, all of which are on the benefit of their target electors. Consequently, the winner is always the candidate who can represent more people’s benefit, and there is nearly no exceptions that the elected candidate didn’t stand on the most people’ interest.

In the final respect, many great historical individuals’ works are finally worked out by the numerous people, and we can’t image only by the individual alone history will full of so incalculable human made miracles. A case in point is the launch of artificial satellite, which has so enormous workload that we can’t believe the whole work was mainly enforced by the chief designer; instead the main success should be attributed to the numerous engineers, mathematicians, and manufacturers instead of the chief designer. The famous pyramids of Egypt are another proper example, and it is the numerous nameless workers not the owners or the designers of the pyramids who are the real creator of the miracle.

What we can’t deny is great historical individuals indeed played an important role in the development of history, and actually they are the sponsors, the leaders, and the promoters of the significant history events. Nevertheless when the key individuals betrayed the groups of people, and stood on the opposite side of the most people, they would fail devastatingly. History tells us that people’ will is greater than the benefits of the key individuals.

In sum, admittedly, in the long history river, countless great individuals contribute lots to the history development; however, numerous nameless people are the real creator of our history.

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题目有两部分内容：
1。The study of history places too much emphasis on individual.
2。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
我觉得前者是重点，后者是次要的。 但是文章中开头只是回应了后者，是否有些不妥。