[Big Fish]3月24日Issue48 by-Sansouci

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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: 470

TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010-3-24 16:15:49


As issue is whether the famous few or the group of people nameless contribute to the significant events and trends in history. The author in favor of the most significant events and trends in history were made by group of people nameless but not by the few celebrated person. From where I am concerned, I concede that groups of general people actually important to take part in events. However, the most significant events and trends in history were more made by the famous individuals.

Admittedly, it is important that the importance of general people. If no public people have in history, no history at all. Such most reforms need groups of people to participate, some of nameless war hero once a member of groups of general people which had made great feats for country and every of them should be remembered by people in today. On the other hand, lots of great projects were made effort by most of people. The Pyramid in Egypt and the Great Wall in China are a high-quality building in history. For example, Pyramid is a magnificent building symbols the flourish of Egypt and the well competence of Egyptian Pharaoh at that time. But this magnificent building couldn’t be built by Pharaoh himself but more built up by groups of Egyptians, which had to work to finish this big project laboriously by day and night. It is unfairly to forget these people who back of most significant events in history.

However, as see the history, the famous few are play an important role. In terms of the World War Two, Roosevelt, the American President during that time determined join the war facilitate end of the World War Two. Supposing without Roosevelt’s significant determination, even if there were thousands of allied countries joined fighting, how dramatically result would be? From this example, it is clearly that the preeminent individuals changed proceed of history. And at the science level, such electrical power machine was created by Faraday, which directly brought society into Electricity Times. Indeed, without the significant leading by famous few, it is impossible that most of groups created new things and innovative ideas.

What’s more important is we should give positive evaluate to public meanwhile study in famous people in history. For the reason that the elites in history usually a symbols of that time. For instance, by studying Lincoln we can learn more about significant events and social condition during his presidency. Therefore, there is no doubt that through studying the famous few, we can clearly learn tendency in history.

In sum, it is groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten, who shape history; it is the famous few, who concentrate events and trends in history. Two of them both consist of history and bring contemporary people something significant and ever-lasting value.