issue48 伟人与平凡人在历史中的意义 高频 留下链接,有拍必回

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7issue48, "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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When we encounter the problem in the study of history, we usually focus our attention on the famous few. Some people argue that the common people play the most vital role in our history but have long been forgotten. This may be not necessarily the case. I concert that we should study the famous few and regard the public as they both contribute to the study of history.

The famous few make a great contribution to the development of disciplines. The great scientists, artists and also philosophers, ideologists contribute to their own principles and are remembered as the sages of those fields. It is their devotion, creation to the study and their braveness to sustain aloneness that improves our world. The special and general theories of relativity are the brilliant research of Einstein; and the famous compositions written by Beethoven are his eminent works praised by people. These can illustrate the significance of the brilliant few.

In the reform history, the brilliant ones are also part of the whole people. Individual to our society is what molecular to the compound. As a professor in my university said” There must be a person stand out and take the main responsibility of this society; we just cannot infer who he is”. This means the famous few are those representatives of our era. No matter who they are, they come from public and stimulate our will and behaviors. Take the example of Ze Dong Mao, the president and reform leader of China. He represent of right of the poor people in China. With his brilliant though to reform and stratagem to rebel the rulers, he lead Chinese to win the internal war and rebuild People’ Republic of China.

The focused studies on famous ones do not mean the oblivion of the public who are also make effort. First, the famous few function as the leading factor to inspire the public to improve their society. They make the program and strategy for people as their spirit powers. Second, their thought and opinions represent the need of the public and their hopes. We study these individuals to have an overview of people at that time and study the characteristics of the past history. Thirdly, it is also meaningful for us to remember the historic accident including the many groups of people through the study of famous few. Examples as Washington and Abraham Lincoln are well illustrated for this statement.

Above all, as I illustrate with examples and reasons, both the famous few and public are essential to our study. In some fields, it is equal to attribute the achievements to the sages, while, in the history it is not denying that the public should be forgotten, even though we do not refer them in the history study. To conclude, times call for brilliance and history would never forget those make great contribution to the society.  The study of history placing emphasis on individuals is anything but the denying that the public who create the history are of no value.