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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."
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TIME: 00:45:47
DATE: 2011-1-30 13:55:48

With the development of history, there always has been new events coming to their births and old events sleeping in human's memory. When it comes to who had made historical events, there are a host of different opinions. Do individuals cased all significant events? Admittedly, we mostly learn about historical events by studying individuals, however, groups of people did have their contributions to those events.

Hard as considering that all historical significant events and trends were accomplished by an individual or a few. Throughout the development of history, significant events and trends always performed under specific historical backdrop and encountered many factors such as technology, feasibility and so on. Take the Apollo Moon Landing Plan for example, due to the limitation of space ship's room, only a few man could took the first steps on moon. So result of that it seemed that the whole events had been made by these few men, even though behinds this few men groups of people consisted by engineers and scientists spared their efforts on planning the project, making space ship flying in the exact orbit. It is not feasible to ship everyone into the space and technology limitations at that time may not allow people to build a larger space ship for more men. Finally, groups of project faculty helped history remember Armstrong, the astronaut.

Admitted that, groups of people, not only individual had contributed to occurrence of many historical events and trends, however, it was several individuals as keys to dramatically expand the development of history. As we come to the reviving of Socialism Revolution happened in China in last century, as the socialism army meet its crisis of perishing because mightiness of its enemy, Chair Mao stood out to led the army and won several crucial campaigns, so that social army were able to keep alive and win the revolution at last. In addition, study of history admits the contributions consisted by groups of people, however, it does not photograph historical events and trends. It is impossible to record all people, soldiers, civilians who had devoted themselves in Chinese Social revolution. As a result, it is difficult for the study of history to record the contributions of groups of people, even though it has admitted those contributions. As a factor for more records about individual were showed in the study of history is that they were easy to record and retell.

As we carry out further inspection on essential of history, we find that history is indeed a subject of human self-knowing and humanity unearthing. It is more likely to be a tool for successors to tell the stories about human nature according to their understanding of humanity. No matter in which forms do history remember the significant evens as Chinese Socialism Revolution and the Apollo Moon Landing Plan, by records individuals or memorizing groups of people, it demonstrate human nature of pursuing on freedom and exploring.

In sum, even though famous few of individuals as stars shine in the long river of history, yet groups of people as dusts also help forming historical stars. Literally, study of history should not discriminate efforts of famous few individuals or groups of people, but should emphasis on telling history according to human nature, while using either one of them or both.