【hawk】7月22日任务——Issue103

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103 "The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives."

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TOPIC: ISSUE103 - "The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives."
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TIME: 01:34:18
DATE: 2010/7/22 23:51:49

As an old saying goes, "history is the teacher of human live and of politics." The function of history is valuable for human daily lives. The content of study of history should have some value and this value may not be very tightly related to daily lives. In my opinion, considering some examples discussed below which seems far from daily lives have great value, the study of history has value not only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily live.

In old days, history is the best teacher for a prince. No better way than reading history can show them the passion and the interests, the good and bad councils, the right and wrong of events and so on. Likewise, the common persons well settle their minds the principles of morality and know how to make the judgment of the action of men. Analyzing historic people in history, some are heroes which hold up as examples, while some hypocrites go down in history as a symbol of infamy. Chinese children are encouraged to learn from one little boy named Kong Rong who at the age of four could yield the bigger pears. The spirit of respect to others was passed on from generation to generation by this historic boy. Hence, history could be our soul guidance.

Aside from soul guidance, the study of history prevents repeating the past mistakes. Just as the old saying goes, "Once bitten, twice shy." A myriad of mistakes happened in history, but the wheel of history should never turn back. The setting off of the first atom bomb over Hiroshima brought serious disasters to human warns us that we should not abuse the nuclear weapon again. The subprime-loan crisis which threatens the economy worldwide had given us an impression lesson. Hence, history promotes the society move in the onward and upward direction and progress can be achieved.

However, theory studies and technological researches are beyond ordinary lives, but they have great value in long term. For example, although the history of an ancient society does not interrupt ordinary person does daily live, it has value to the study of history and indirectly affect human live. It may show us a fairy tale or it may be proved to be the origin of some cultures. Another example is the history of science. Every science has history. The studies of earth, sun, and the cosmos are far beyond daily lives, and record and study from history help researches. Hence, history colorful our lives and helps doing researches and human may use the result to create endless new things.

All together, history has great value to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives and that is far beyond daily lives. Aside from making our lives more colorful, and helping do researches, history has endless function that I can list here.

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