issue 48 -----by ringtailbunny

ringtailbunnyUID: 2579853

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."
WORDS: 627
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010/2/26 15:53:16

Whether we should emphisis emphasis more on the individual or on the groups when we analyse analysis the history is a complex issue-one that is fraught with the distinction of different peirods periods and the hypostasis of history. Taking all these facets into consideration, I agree with the topic.

In the first place, I admit that individual plays the crucial role to change or help accerlerate accelerate the pace of history by their creative impulse, unbearable persistence and institution and authentic passion. Tulin made a stiking striking example to this statement. He was treated as "Father of Modern Computer ", who sloved solved most vital problems in the concept of computer's architect, including the common process of solving problems, the memory for data, algorithms and etc. It is not exaggerate to say that Tulin invented the computer mainly by himself as well as changed the whole society. However, these instances of these celebrates usually appear only in the initiation of the fields like Newton who founded the base of the classical physics with his three main force laws, and with the developping developing of the history, science and technology, these examples become less and less.

Nowadays, it is prevailing to change the history as a group rather than as an individual because of the complexity of each field and the necessity to combine several fields together for crucial performances. Take Charles K.Kao as an example. Charles K.Kan, who was regarded as "Father of Fiber Optics" and awarded half of the Noble Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievement concerning the transmission transmission of light in fibres fibers for optical communication" published his theory 40 years ago. However, we have waited for another 20 years to see the programmatic appication application because the technologies of EDFA, the glass for media and the semicondutor semiconductor optical amplifer amplifier need more time to be mature. I have no intension to overlook K.Kao's significant contribution to history, but we should also concede the impossibility to change the history as an individual especially in the modern society.

Besides the endeavor of science and technology, the similar examples to K.Kao abound. Levis Mandela, the first president in South Afican with black skin, took pains to pursue the freedom and equality in his country and his goal came true after his life in prison for 20 years. Without the efforts from his group, how could he changed change the history in the prison? It is always as a group to change the history in the realm of politics, warfare and environment because the ultimate goals of such fields do much more to the mass public than to one person.

Someone may emphasis the effective function of the vital person, who shined in the stage of history, to inspire his group to weaken this issue. However, by digging the hypostasis of history, it is just like a remake of a classical movie with new players but the same scripts. The few vital persons are dispensable now or ever. For example, Qin Dynasty in Chinese history is famous for its security brutality and bloodiness, high tax, and severe militery military employment service. It was this hell-like situation rather than vital person determined the dynasty’s end. Although it survived the campagin insurgence leaded by Cheng Sheng and Wu Guang, it was destroyed by the movement piloted by Xiang Yu after 5 years of the former one. In sum, it is the whole society and the groups founding the stage for the vital player that always pushes someone to the limelight to be the key to change history. In this way, the study of history placing too much on individual is incoherent.

All in all, to help people form a more reasonable method to analysis problems and draw more objective conclusion of the history, we should put more effort on the groups who plays fatal roles in the stage of history.









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qisaimanUID: 2703629

1： emphasis is a noun and emphasize is a verb
2: the example in b2 and b3 is not consistent.As far as I know, modern computer did not emerge after Turing claimed his ideas. try some others to avoid paradox.

ringtailbunnyUID: 2579853

额，我也觉得第一个例子不好举。我看了下，确实tulin有问题。。主要是自己后面没怎么给自己第一段留退路。。

ringtailbunnyUID: 2579853

还是要举自己专业的例子，以后什么计算机就不理睬了。tulin还是有点出名。。
全部近代物理好了。。。估计rater也没几个知道的。。

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