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TOPIC: ISSUE120 - "So much is new and complex today that looking back for an understanding of the past provides little guidance for living in the present."
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1 人的本性和道德是不变的,我们可以学习历史人物的高尚道德,并作为榜样指导我们的生活。
2 历史提供给我们标准去理解现在。比如法国大革命的自由平等博爱。
3 历史给我们教训,让我们在今天能更好的解决问题。
Today's world is new and complex, which seems little linked with the past. Looking around the things nearby, for example computer, which brings us a miraculars mean of communication as well as probelms like computer crime, both of them can be hardly imagined before. However,is that everything be totally changed therefore looking back to understand the past provides little guidance for living in today? I disagree with the assertion. Actually, the sociation with the past is more masked and suspended than disappearing, and the understanding of past indeed benefit today.
Firstly, although today’s world seems as brand new, for the repaidly developing technology and different lifestyles comparing with past, the human natural and moral was hardly being changed. We learnt about hero's story from very young and regarded them as a model of oueselves, such as the American founders, the greatest scientist,or other famous social activists in history; their spirit spur us to make our own achievement in life. For instance, the courage of Washington, the perseverence of Madame Curie, the self-confidence of Helen keller, and so forth. Looking back to the past, we will find some similarity in different people, who was bron in diverse times but hold the same morals. Morals, act as the innate power of oneself, are never changed----from the past to future. Heightest morals, which is the most important thing to help the history people succeed, surly, will encourage us in our life's journy.
Secondly, learning about the past provide us a good way to understand the world, even to judge the changing of today is towards bright or dark. From the French Revolusion, we know the words" freedom, equality and fraternity", which regard as the the motto in today's world. Then we have democracy, as a way to achieve the above. Today, we have well-designed election process, we built legal systom to prevent life-long preisidence, and we hold the flag as equality to against the racial discrimination. All our awareness of right was largely stemed from the French Revolusion. And it is the history which bring us wisdom. Also, we hold the old motto to examine the World War Two, to examine the laws today, or even to judge the justice of Iraq War. Indeed, history provide us the criteria to understand today.
Thirdly, history teaches us lessons. Without knowing the terrible results of war, we may still wage wars to deal with the problems. As with the high speed of globalization, more and more countries related to each other and disagree with the policies, but we choose a peacful way---- negotiations to discuss and reach a agreement instead of war. Certainly it is a prograss. Now, the win-win solusion of negotiation was used in many areas from business to politics to aviod expensive cost as war in history.
In sum, even though today's world is new and complex, it still have association with the past. Anyway, we human beings are not alive in the air without history. And the understanding of past surly benefit us in understanding and dealing with today. |
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