【喜洋洋杀G大队】7.12作业 by jahson

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issue 103


Michael Crichton once said:" If you do not know history, you do not know anything. You will be a leaf that does not know it is part of a tree." The value of studying history should be attached enough significance to, no matter whether it is relevant to our daily lives.
People are always emphasizing learning history relevant to our lives, because not only can it provide us great inspiration for innovations, but it can also help us avoid similar fallacies that once emerged.
An analysis of history is essential for us to be well-prepared for the coming challenges. After a review of previous human beings' achievements, we will better appreciate those crucial elements which contributed significantly to the former accomplishments; therefore we will be equipped with abundant experience and are more likely to turn opportunities into rewards. For instance, various science technologies, which are improving our daily lives, are based on science breakthroughs made by predecessors. By taking advantages of both founded theories and their procedures of successful researches, we are developing technologies at an unprecedented speed.
A scrutiny of negative history makes us reflect on misconceptions. Since we are familiar with what accounted for human beings' failures, we can recognize those which lead to terrible consequences more easily and rule them out. In this respect, a learning of past frustrations helps clear the obstacles away from our way ahead. Let us take science technologies for example again. When we made use of nuclear energy, we did not sense that its radioactivity would bring out a host of disasters. Later every country imposed strict restraints on nuclear technologies to prevent radioactivity pollutions. And that is representative of a general attitude towards the relationship between development and environment.

While more and more attention is paid to history about our daily lives, history that is not so close to our lives should be not neglected.
Our lives are too limited compared to the long history, which does not mean that the rest history does not make any sense. Instead, the other parts of history provide more unique perspectives for us to better evaluate human beings' nature and civilization. The history, which seems have nothing with our daily life, have indirect influences somehow on our lives. A review of it can not only further our understanding about our lives, but also can cultivate our abilities to analyze both our lives and other important issues.
As the society never stops its development and improvement, society's illness is never healed. Collisions and turmoil are always imposing negative impacts on the society, such as terrorist attack which is the most serious threat to human beings nowadays. We must not ignore the part of history about this which seems so far away from our daily lives. If we gain a more comprehensive realization of those threats, we will acquire more strength to defend the peace and harmony.
In conclusion, object history, whether it is relevant to our daily lives or not, is a frame of reference and provides us guidance to a better future. In a review of history, we can formulate mature ideas and values in every aspect of human beings' activities. Meanwhile, we should grasp today and prepare for future. History cannot be changed, today is changing and future is still wait for changes.

argument 161
In his analysis, two studies are presented. The former one, which is conducted by the University of Leeville and is concerned about people's reading habits, seems to indicate classics are more popular since most respondents said those are their preferences. The other, which is conducted by the same team and is of the same issue, is carried out with a result that the mystery novel is most frequently checked out. Through a comparison between the two studies, the author claims that the respondence in the former study is misrepresented.
The priority that deserves our attention is that without more details of the first survey, whether it is effective and can objectively reflect people's real attitude is open to debate. First of all, maybe the questions in the survey are leading and the answers given just as anticipated. For instance, if a person was asked "what do you like best to read" and was given only two choices, classics and science. And maybe most respondents said they preferred classics because reading science often needs professional knowledge. In the second place, there are no signs of that the sample is representative, which seriously invalidate the result of the survey. Maybe the respondents are quite a minority of the people participating in the survey and their answers are not representative of the general attitude. Additionally, there are no signs of random sampling, either. If the respondents are majorly elders who are supposed to prefer classics, we cannot make such a hasty generalization. To sum up, before we discuss about the results, we should make a scrutiny of the all procedures of the survey.
This goes for the second study as well. To valid the conclusion of the second survey, crucial evidence, that libraries have all kinds of books especially include classics, is essential. If libraries only have mystery novels and some boring kinds of books, it is obviously that reasonable mystery books are most frequently checked out due to the limited choices. Thus we cannot infer that the respondents in the first study misrepresented their thoughts from the second survey.
Furthermore, we cannot neglect another possibility. When asked about favorite literary works, we have a motivation to say literary classics are our favorite out of our vanity. We all care about what impression of ourselves others have and we feel like to be regarded as someone who is of elegance and a good taste. In this respect, actually the respondents hide their real ideas rather than misrepresent their reading habits.
In conclusion, without more information about how the two surveys are conducted, we cannot rule out many other possibilities that can account for the result as well and the author's assertion is presumptuous. To better evaluate the argument, we should know more about people's real attitude. And if the real thoughts are hidden as analyzed above, we should figure out some effective way of research.