本帖最后由 carol.lj 于 2010-5-4 15:51 编辑
1认为是个别名人和大众一起创造了历史。
2在科技领域,很多成就都是由个人实现的
3在社会领域,虽然很多成就是由个人主导的,但最终还是由人民群众完成的。
4而现实中,人们总是忽视了人民群众在历史中的作用,认为是精英创造了历史。
who created the history, the famous few, or the groups of the general public? the author believes that the most significant events and the trends in history were made possible by the latter, whose identities have long been forgotten, rather than the former. As far as i am concerned, the famous few together with general public have created history. Firstly, human cognition defines the famous as the representation of a large group of people. Although society has such a powerful strength that the few famous persons can not change or hinder the progress of history, the famous persons are famous due to their predictable thought and their wise leading. The decisions they made are so significant that they are the catalysts of the steps of history progress. For instance, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, left Harvard and found the company. The company’s success made Gates one of the most influential figures in the computer industry. And, eventually, Gates made the word different due to his commercial decisions, which brings the opportunity of new technology development.Computers are so popular and widely used in a large number of companies and schools all over the word that we entered a new historical trend. Many achievements, in science and technology, are made by individuals. What’s more, those individuals play key roles in the critical moments, and construct a better society, such as Max planck, Einstein Albert, Harvey and so on. In a word, famous individuals with great feats probably indicate the main trend of history. They push the history this direction with their wisdom.
Secondly, many historic achievements, in the field of society, have been made by the personality, but finally completed by most of general people. For example, homer is famous for the two great works in western literature. Almost people are interested in the history of ancient Greek, which is famous at the democratic society, flourishing culture and high achievements of science. And all those have been recorded by whom, obviously, the general public record the history’s events. Furthermore, the general publics’ ideas, attitudes, behavior, and experience have made up of the frame of history. Admittedly, society is a group made up of one individual components. And history also is written by people.No one can ignore the importance of general people who impelled the development of human history, and everyone of the groups has his or her own role and function in the history.
However,it is hard for the readers to notice those limitations in human nature. For the readers, they simply take the famous few as the ones who made possible the significant events and trends. The real history should be created by the famous few and the general public.
In sum,the famous few are in active state, while the general public are passive to some extents. Both the group of people and the famous few determine the destiny of society. And the bias of attach importance on either one of the two is due to the limitation of human cognition.
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