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48"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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Looking back into the history of the human, we could found that every improvement were made beyond the people's blood and sweat. Without these people, human being would still be in the primitive society. So groups of people devoted themselves to the development of the country or even the world, who we should never forget. Although the study of the history places a lot of attention on individuals, it never focus too much because we acquire the achievement done by groups of people just through the study of these excellent individuals and it courages people to keep the society moving through setting these individual examples.
First of all, an old adage in China says: two men will be better than one. It is clearly that a
group of people will accomplish what one man can not do. And it is true in the history that all
of these great works and society improvements were done by groups of people. Just take pyramid
for example, although we have not known how ancient Egyptian built these amazing pyramids, we do know that all these great buildings were done by groups of people but not any individual. Another instance is the Declaration of Independence, without groups of people attribute to the independent war, there would not have a united and independent country, called the untied
State today ,event if there are 100 Washington. Therefore, we have no doubt on the achievement done by groups of people in the history.
However, we need to admit that due to the difficult of recording every person who contribute to the significant events and trends in history, and it is unrealistic to identify every soldier death under shield, but that does not mean we forget about them. In China, everyday people from all over the country go to Tomb of Unknown Soldier to monumentalize these heroes and their devotion to the peace of the country. And every present in the United State will visit old soldiers who fight for the peace in World War Two. All of these evidence shows that people in the modern time never forget these people who made the history, although we do not know their exact identities.
On the other hand, that the study of history emphasizes on the individuals does not equal to the miss of the importance of groups of people, and on the contrary, we memorize these people by studying the famous few in their contemporaries. It is not possible for Washington alone to accomplish the Declaration of Independence, but through the study of Washington, we realize that people in that time were anxious to be free and equal, and anyone of them would like to scarify for the independence of their country. Besides, Lu Xun, the great litterateur, fought with his pen with millions of Chinese people to against the enemy and through the study of him and his works, we acquire how eager were Chinese people want to have a contact and peaceful country and how much they scarified for the peace of China. Therefore, we should blame historians for paying too much attention on individuals.
The study of these famous few gives us chance to set examples for people to inspire them to stand out when they are treated unfair and push the wheel of the society moving on. There are millions of great mathematics professors, but as we set Stephen William Hawking as our young's adorer, young people began to be interested in science and in the vote of the most famous person in UK, more young people voted for Hawking than for Beckham, which shows the favor of young in learning and gives us hope to have more wonderful society in future. Therefore, the effort on the study of history of the famous few courages people to fight, to create and to improve.
To sum up, it is the gospel that history can not be written by the few, and we never forget or will
forget our processors and what they had done. Everyone contributing to the history should be respected and remembered, and pay attention to these famous few will aid us to achieve more in the future.
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