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Issue110. "When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we become storytellers. Because we can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit. All historians are storytellers."
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Hyder White, a famous historian in the United States, protests that the sensitivity of historians rests with the ability of creating a convincing story from a succession of historic data and facts. As a non-scholar, I firmly believe that historians are first storytellers in that history, full of logic and vividness is the production of creative thinking and analysis. 【不错的开头,很新颖的观点】
It is historians' creative mental activity【activities】 that makes fragments of past data, fact and materials a systematic knowledge called history, and endows them with extraordinary meanings. Since the real history is a bypast fact 【bypast facts】which is difficult for us to verify, the history we refer to means a record, expatiation, and evaluation of the past materials and a recombination of past【historical】 fragments. When individuals retrospect 【这个是名词】the experiences and course of their lives, they are likely to organize each part of live by making them a story according to their own patterns. Similarly, facing the past data and materials, historians comprehend them with various aspects and cultural backgrounds. for example, the most famous historian in ancient China Simaqian, compiled history of Qin period and Han period with different attitude and comprehension, for the limitation of the historical material. Since people could not obtain complete and absolutely accurate material, but have to construct them by interpreting evidence and exploring them with different perception, which may make the same history a tragedy or comedy. From this perspective, there is no virtually difference among the work of historians and fictionist and dramatist. 【很好的论点,论述的也不错,不过司马迁的例子解释的还不够,而且,最后一句的结论优点仓促】
On the surface, history is merely the documentation of past dynasties and events with dramatic and fascinating words. Virtually, the connotation of history is the reasoning and research of the truth and the demonstration of the origin of a historical fact【facts】; the purpose of studying history is to provide people with a further cognition of why and how historical events happened so that we can better absorb the quintessence of the past and correct the drawbacks so that we can manage our future well. 【前面说的不错,后面的manage our future well太简略了】 Only by recognizing the hypostasis of human civilization and the development of society, distinguishing the difference of various periods in each nation and region, and exploring the factors which effected human history, that is, only by historians’ creative thinking and reasoning of the truth of historic information and their philosophic summarizing of previous events, can they make their judgments on historical materials and reach the purpose of composing history. 【这段交代了历史研究的作用,很符合你的观点,不过,从布局的合理性和逻辑顺序来看,这段应该放在B1,然后现在的B1做为B2,再加上只有这样才能实现历史研究的目的的总结】
Admittedly, some people claim that historians should faithfully write history according to the past materials and it is unnecessarily for them to make creative search for the reason that from the perspective above, when history appears in our minds, it is not simply an objective document, but a fictional【这里用creative会不会好一点,说成fictional是不是走的太远了】 story. However, this proposal will to a large extent restrict historians’ mind and make the research method only a confirmation of the historical materials, and hence history will become some fragments but not a systematic and logical subject. Historians’ creative thinking does not necessarily means juggling or cheating, but represents their correct and objective judgment on historical materials, philosophic foresight and sensitivity on history, which is the scientific attitude when studying history. 【论证的不错】
In sum, similarly to any subject, history also needs further exploring and creative thinking, which is a basic research method in learning knowledge. Historian should first be storytellers so that they can endue the past facts with a clear skeleton and further discover the rule of the development of society and at the same time help people to create an appealing future.
【从全文来看,首先是观点很新颖,不过更难得的是论述的很清晰透彻。语言和逻辑上面都有了很大的进步。不过,一个问题就是B1B2顺序的问题,另一个问题就是,虽然历史的例子不好找,但是,还是举一些具体的例子更好一点。加油!】 |
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