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Is  it   meaningful to study history only when it has correlations with our daily lives? I tend to agree with the speaker's view. It is true that in some special cases humans spend time and force on some topics which is non-related with our modern lives, but in the most times, history research is valuable when it correlates with our daily lives.

I concede that sometimes people are curious about some certain parts of history, such as the source of human beings. Although it is not so relevant, nevertheless, everyone wants to know what one抯 ancients are like. Hence, when the research comes to the development of our human beings selves, the situation becomes somewhat different. However, to some extent it is also relevant to our modern lives: no one can assert that there is no relation between one and his predecessors. In one word, sometimes history that is not completely meaningless indeed seems to have no correlations to our daily lives. Though, to some extent it could be thought as having fewer connections as do the relevant history.

Firstly, history, mostly defined as a mirror of modern society in all aspects, is of considerable significance in being the paradigm for the people nowadays. History is all the ways people have walked, all the mistakes people have committed, all the honor people have owned. For example, with concrete and careful research in the World War 2, we can always find a lot of useful experiences that we now need to avoid. After the two molecular bombs dropping in Japan, millions of innocent people are involved in, and the radioactive rays covered the regions for tens of years. There then appeared a number of strange creatures whose gene was changed by the deleterious and harmful radioactive rays. The experience made us understand the drastically bad influence that the atomic energy have and so the Genevan Compact was raised later. In short, history which is relevant to our modern lives is so useful that it could help us not commit huge mistakes again. In short, it is only when history is relevant to our daily lives that history means so much for us not to commit the same mistakes again.

Secondly, sometimes it is the history that could even help us foresee the future. History is the happenings occurred in the past; however, everything that had happened has a higher ratio to happen again than those had not happened. The weather report synthesizes the past a few days weather conditions to predict the future. Similarly, historian can always synthesize the history to predict the events taken place in the future, too. George Bush, for example, once successfully predicted the situation of the President election with the help of history. He said that when it came to the period of war time, the president was always could be reelected again. Then the fact happened later proved exactly what he said. In one word, although history is past, it is always meaningful for the future when it is relevant to it.

In conclusion, I concede that history that have no relevant to our daily lives is sometimes useful for us because of our curiosity, nonetheless, it is only relevant history that could give us experiences which can help us get out of the labyrinth composed by the outside appearance of the events taken place in our modern lives and grasp the essence of the happenings. History could also give us the power having foresight of the unknown future. (585)

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