Issue110 【黄金十二宫】第七次作业(6.7)

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TOPIC: 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."

outline:
1.回顾历史建立一些史料之上.
2.回顾历史同样需要创造性的想象力.
3.历史学家另一项任务是去伪存真.

issue:
For the sake of truth, one way to make a better comprehension about the history is that to look through the ancient person’s eyes and think at their stands, which is one part of the historians’ mission. Although this task need creative consideration, their work is more likely to be a discoverable process, not story’s make-up.

It is true that the construction of our history is more related to the subjective interpretation based on the evidence for we do not have opportunities to make an access to the foregone events. Just through this approach we can acquaint with the past things. For instance, none of us experience the prosperity of Pompeii which did not survive from a break-forth of volcano. However, by studying those existent documents, such as travel notes written by some contemporary people after visiting Pompeii and letters describing civic lives in there, we can know that Pompeii was a well-preserved center revealing the nature of ancient economic activity or of social, or religious and other structures and so on. Not only because these events happened long time ago, and sometimes people cannot survive due to brutal wars or severe plagues. In that case, none but these fragmentary evidences will help us to reconstruct the impression about those lost things.

Meanwhile, the construction of history is more or less a process needed creative imagination. Because it is impossible for us to discover and collect all the evidences, sometimes fragmentary proof, we need ample imagination to make them united, and therefore recognizable and meaningful. For example, the lines and geometrical figures on Nazca plateau has became an enigmatical puzzle to people for many ages. On account of their hugeness, the lines and figures can really only be seen from the air. No one knows who scraped the stones away to create these strange pictures and what their significance is. With numerous supposals, people began to agree with the theory that those figures were groundwater channels which symbolized them belong to different tribes. Without abundant creative thoughts, we cannot reach those answers which indwelled many centuries ago.   

However, besides two tasks above, historian have a constantly important aim—to find out the truth and eliminate the false, particularly when sorts of theories existing simultaneously. Attitudes towards things varied from person to person, so there are always subsisting different versions about one thing. The similar illustration about Homer will explain this statement. At the very beginning, people thought Homer was a single person to write the Iliad. After some time, other people thought that Homer did not really exist and lots of bards to create Iliad by telling stories. At this stage, whether Homer existed or not relies on historians to riddle.

To be brief, it is not correct to consider historians as storytellers even though discoveries of history need creativity, rather than unrestrained but well-founded imagination.


感觉这篇文章相当不好写,一开始想不到例子,之后想到例子却记不清名字,还是得google...

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TOPIC: 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."

outline:
1.回顾历史建立一些史料之上.
2.回顾历史同样需要创造性的想象力.
3.历史学家另一项任务是去伪存真.

issue:
For the sake of truth, one way to make a better comprehension about the history is that to look through the ancient person’s eyes and think at their stands, which is one part of the historians’ mission（我个人感觉历史学家好像不是干这个任务的吧，只是个人观点）. Although this task need creative consideration, their work is more likely to be a discoverable process, not story’s make-up.（论点）

It is true that the construction of our history is more related to the subjective interpretation based on the evidence for we do not have opportunities to make an access to the foregone events. Just through this approach we can acquaint with the past things. For instance, none of us experience the prosperity of Pompeii which did not survive from a break-forth of volcano. However, by studying those existent documents, such as travel notes written by some contemporary people after visiting Pompeii and letters describing civic lives in there, we can know that Pompeii was a well-preserved center revealing the nature of ancient economic activity or of social, or religious and other structures and so on. Not only because these events happened long time ago, and sometimes people cannot survive due to brutal wars or severe plagues. In that case, none but these fragmentary evidences will help us to reconstruct the impression about those lost things.（历史学家的作用）

Meanwhile, the construction of history is more or less a process needed creative imagination. Because it is impossible for us to discover and collect all the evidences, sometimes fragmentary proof, we need ample imagination to make them united, and therefore recognizable and meaningful. For example, the lines and geometrical figures on Nazca plateau has became an enigmatical puzzle to people for many ages. On account of their hugeness, the lines and figures can really only be seen from the air. No one knows who scraped the stones away to create these strange pictures and what their significance is. With numerous supposals, people began to agree with the theory that those figures were groundwater channels which symbolized them belong to different tribes. Without abundant creative thoughts, we cannot reach those answers which indwelled many centuries ago.  （需要想象力）

However, besides two tasks above, historian have a constantly important aim—to find out the truth and eliminate the false, particularly when sorts of theories existing simultaneously. Attitudes towards things varied from person to person, so there are always subsisting different versions about one thing. The similar illustration about Homer will explain this statement. At the very beginning, people thought Homer was a single person to write the Iliad. After some time, other people thought that Homer did not really exist and lots of bards to create Iliad by telling stories. At this stage, whether Homer existed or not relies on historians to riddle.(去伪存真)

To be brief, it is not correct to consider historians as storytellers even though discoveries of history need creativity, rather than unrestrained but well-founded imagination.
不好意思，刚改了一篇作文，现在才知道新的顺序应该怎么执行。头脑很乱，简单说一下。
你的论点是：their work is more likely to be a discoverable process, not story’s make-up.
但是你的论证对论点的支持不足，你过多地偏向于论证历史学家的作用，但是至于他们为什么不是故事家并没有过多的论述。这样就跟题目结合得不紧密。

其实考虑到问题的复杂性，应该这样论述：先说历史学家的局限，不能原貌复原历史等。 再说历史学家是按照科学方法。。。。进行的工作，故事家是。。。。
所以他们不是故事家。。。在分析一下历史学家的作用就好些了（仅个人意见）
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