Issue48 【0710G Victors互助小组】第五次作业

#十指飞舞UID: 2330769

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."

  There is much controversy over the issue of the real maker of most significant events and trends in history ,some people may embrace the idea that historical change by the accomplishment of great figures ,which serves as an ideological justification for the power of the minority, while others claim that history study places too much emphasis on individuals and groups of  nameless people should deserve more attention in history study. On balance ,i would argue that  individuals actually play a significant role in writing the history and groups of people whose name have slipped out of memory are  as important ,it is the concatenation of the two that makes the history .

   We should not deny the important parts that individuals play in the making of history .For example ,Gorge Washington, Martin Luther King ,Gandhi and so on, those name are carved into our mind as heroes . these famous ones ,to be supposed ,are the  mover and shaper in history. Abraham Lincoln was the very historical one ,cited as a sound example here, who was the central  leader of the North in the Civil War ,beat the South and emancipated  American slaves ,which was a milestone in human rights, his  contributions and spirit are memorized by generations.     

  Objectively ,individuals can not make history only purely by their own wills and strength, they do influence the rate of the historical process but have to follow the social trends and wills of the majority .Individuals can exert what they wish depending on the temporal major social condition. Martin Luther King may have dreamed of a society, where there is no racial discrimination ,people who are white or black, as children of the God ,enjoy the equal human right before constitution and laws ,but only with the awareness of people and accumulation of the suffering and inflammation had got to the point that black strive against racial inequality  and fight for freedom under the guidance of Martin Luther King ,which make such a world possible.  
  
  Groups of people exert as important influence in history as the "great men" do, despite they are usually forgotten but actually the basis of  successes of most significant events and trends. There are so many great and huge accomplishments achieved by the mass which reveal the mass' courage , efforts and excellent wisdom.Such achievements as the Pyramid in Egypt and satellite landing on the moon with people had never been fulfilled without the great effort of people .These people are not recorded in history books but their achievements will still exist.  
   
  To sum up , historians should not focus on the great figures while neglecting the far less  famous mass or only  emphasized the importance of the mass in history study ,because both  the historical individuals and groups of people are the makers of history ,they should be concentrated as two aspects of one integration and are very important to the process of history.

[ 本帖最后由 #十指飞舞 于 2007-6-2 19:39 编辑 ]

fengyinyangUID: 2321139

The speaker’s conclusion contains two points of statements, one of which is that the study of history emphasis too much on individuals, the other is that it is groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten that made the most significant events and trends in history but not the elites 我觉得这种分析性的开头如果没说到点子上或者漏了一点后果会比较麻烦,可以尝试其他的开头. I agree with that populaces is very significant to make history, while my points of is on the speaker’s opposite side of his first statement.
First of all, the populaces are important to make the history come true. Actually, the history which contains a lot of significant events and trends are driven forward by groups of people, not by the famous few. Without the millions of unknown soldieries who sacrificed their lives in the Second World War, the success of allied countries couldn’t have won the battle. Without the numerous populaces who lose their lives to build, how could the Pyramids, the Great Wall and other world-famous miracles come into being? Without groups of workers whose job is to accomplish each case come from their leaders, a successful enterprise would be a dreamer 我觉得吧,论题说的是历史研究,那么诸如士兵之类的对于研究来说就没多大意义了,可以举一些改革的实施,因为正是顺应了当时的大众的意愿,或者是当时社会的需求才能够实施,所以研究民众是能了解改革实施的背景的. So I concede that it is plebeians that actually make the elites’ ideals come into being, from this point of view, they made the history.
However, the way to learn about history is to study the famous few. On the one hand, the historical documents always contain only the elites who lead significant events. They represent the process of magnificent history changes for their activities to invent history. For their good ideas and correct tactics, the plebeians could confirm to make history come true. On the other hand, no enough space for populaces to be documented, yet it is unnecessary to do so. For they are confirmer of elites’ orders, who make the elites’ ideas come into being, they are passive. History couldn’t and it is unnecessary to write down numerous names of the groups of people who take part in those projects, miracles, companies’ dairy work and wars. Only if we learn history by learn the elites, such as the Presidents as Washington who created the United States and Jefferson who draft the “The Claim of American Independence”, Bill Gates who is a significant enterpriser leading Microsoft Company which is the most valuable corporation in the area of IT, that can we encourage ourselves to improve from success to significant.
To sum up, I agree with the second statement claimed by the speaker that populaces made the history. Without their industrious endeavor, the elites’ wisdom couldn’t make any value in history. However, I think the first statement asserted in the issue is too extreme. We should pay our attention to the famous few in order to learn history, for they really represent history. However could historian learn numerous groups of people without any emphasis?

我觉得虽然论题说的是谁创造了历史的问题,但是它开头说了一个历史研究,是不是应该针对这个问题说呢???可能是我的理解有所偏颇吧,加油~~

grant33zhouUID: 121557

It is true that most significant events and trends in history were made by groups of people instead of a single person, but without the single one as a leader, there was no such a meaningful event. The leader who play the most important leading role in the team always easily be remembered or written, not only because his ability to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute themselves to the team, but also because the leader is taken the responsibility for his team, no matter win or lose. So individual as a leader was always getting more attention in any event.

Human being are born to live with each others, we were raised by parents, go to school with classmates, make friends and work with colleagues, so there is impossible for anyone to make any progress on study or work on his own. So there is no success was made by any person along. As the NBA legend Michael Jordan, his successful basketball career was made by his great work ethics and also by the supports from his teammates and coaches. Even one person sports like Golf, Tiger Woods cannot make his legendary story only by his talent without the help from his Dad, coaches and others. All the famous celebrities’ progresses were made by great work from themselves and contributions from others.

It is hard to ignore the big efforts made by groups of people in the meaning event, however, as we all know the leader always take greater responsibility and lead the team to win or lost. For example, Napoleon from France, his innovation, revolution efforts influence not only in France but the rest of nations in Europe, his modern concepts of military lighten the world; Chairman Mao from China, give new life of China as a nation over two decades of civil and international war, advance the social and economic development of Chinese society. It is unfair to acclaim those contributions from others are not worthy to identify, but, those leaders made the right choices and worked harder than anyone to make the history.

There is always a controversial topic arguing about the relationship between identified few and  their crews, but leaders are paying much more than average to be the leader and supposed be more indentified.

不知道合不合适跟这个贴，自己刚写了一个也是练笔，现在还没有找到组织。谢谢

[ 本帖最后由 grant33zhou 于 2007-6-5 04:17 编辑 ]

lemon71500UID: 2335516

Issue48 【0710G Victors互助小组】第五次作业
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."

  There is much controversy over the issue of the real maker of most significant events and trends in history, some people may embrace the idea that historical change by the accomplishment of great figures[这句话是不是有问题啊,by前是不是应该有一个被动式?], which serves as an ideological justification for the power of the minority, while others claim that history study places too much emphasis on individuals and groups of nameless people should deserve more attention in history study. On balance, I would argue that  individuals actually play a significant role in writing the history and[and好还是but好?] groups of people whose name have slipped out of memory are  as important ,it is the concatenation of the two that makes the history .

   We should not deny the important parts that individuals play in the making of history .For example, Gorge Washington, Martin Luther King, Gandhi and so on, those name [names] are carved into our mind as heroes. These famous ones, to be supposed, are the mover and shaper in history. Abraham Lincoln was the very historical one, cited as a sound example here, who was the central leader of the North in the Civil War, beat the South and emancipated American slaves, [前后数不相同,或者叫偷换主语]which was a milestone in human rights, his contributions and spirit are memorized by generations.     

  Objectively, individuals can not make history only purely by their own wills and strength, they do influence the rate of the historical process but have to follow the social trends and wills of the majority .Individuals can exert what they wish depending on the temporal major social condition. Martin Luther King may have dreamed of a society, where there is no racial discrimination, people who are white or black, as children of the God, enjoy the equal human right before constitution and laws, but only with the awareness of people and accumulation of the suffering and inflammation had got to the point that black strive against racial inequality and fight for freedom under the guidance of Martin Luther King, which make such a world possible.  
  
  Groups of people exert as important influence in history as the "great men" do, despite they are usually forgotten but actually the basis of successes of most significant events and trends. There are so many great and huge accomplishments achieved by the mass which reveal the mass' courage , efforts and excellent wisdom. Such achievements as the Pyramid in Egypt and satellite landing on the moon with people had never been fulfilled without the great effort of people .These people are not recorded in history books but their achievements will still exist.  
   
  To sum up, historians should not focus on the great figures while neglecting the far less famous mass or only emphasized the importance of the mass in history study, because both the historical individuals and groups of people are the makers of history, they should be concentrated as two aspects of one integration and are very important to the process of history.

语言组织的很不错哦, 看来我英语水平的确不够,而且像是在瞎涂乱改,师姐看看即可,我的英语能力还不足以从一个高度来审视师姐的文章呵呵,希望大家都加油进步.