issue48 FlY AW小组第二十一次作业

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Throughout the long recorded history, the events are marked with tremendous brilliant individuals. As for this phenomenon, the author asserts that the study of history places too much emphasis on individuals, rather than the public. Scrutiny of this issue, I absolutely agree to the necessity of focusing on individuals, and the study of history is indeed focusing on those persons, yet at the same time the groups of people also exert their own functions in promoting the development of history.
Blessing or curse, our history events are usually directly linked to some specific great individuals. These persons served as either the impetus or even the causes of those events, performing their indispensable function of the great individuals on the evolution of the society. Without sagacious leadership of President Roosevelt,  America may not successfully walk out of the shadow of the great Depression and conquer the notorious fascism in the Second World War. Without emperor Qin, China would never be united. Without Einstein and his human intelligence as well as animal diligence, the theory of relativity will never come into being, thus the development of science would lack a sound theory and foundation. Again, without Claude Monet and his persistence in his belief, the Impressionism can only be suffocated under the pressure exerted by critics. Thus, the critical role of individuals in the history cannot be replaced by that of the masses.
In reality, our historians have being paying their much attention to researching the individuals. Thus the significant individuals have always been treated as the building block of the historical study. Opening our history books, every page is replete with the portrait and brief introduction concerning the achievements one ever made. Turning on television, the character show is always the most attractive program. When we investigate a particular incident, we would undoubtedly ask, who? Who made the holistic thing happen? Certainly, we expect the answer is concerning a particular person rather than a large group of people. The human nature, which etches in the genome of Homo sapiens, decides the tendency of public to peer into the particular person who have done a particular thing.
While conceding the necessary emphasis on individuals, groups of people also play a part in making the significant events and in leadig the trends in history possible, particular in the field of politics. Lacking strong supports from the demos, however brilliant and competent a politician is a loner can only doomed to be a loser ultimately. In the history, during the course of each and every movement, speakers and sponsors were invariably speaking to the public in a plaza or a rostrum, transmitting their views to the demos, in order to gain the public supports, for they knew clearly that obtaining more supporters would add more chance to the success. When Buddha Gandhi practice his non-violent behavior to fight, attracted the public to stand on his side, the compromise from the government declared his final win. Although Lincoln’s wise leadership combined with firmness, warmth and generosity are all crucial, the struggle of fighters who may sacrifice for the emancipation of the slaveand the help of the ordinary people in the dangerous battle field secured the victory with the life and blood. Without their influence on the progress and outcome of the war, the American history may be rewritten.When Napoleon lost his supports because of his intrusion which violate the mores, he is near to the final failure. In a word, without the supports from the public, many political movements or battles would declare their failure. The careful inspection of the history as a whole leads me to a realization that the study of history, in essence, is to tell the basic principle that govern the locomotion of the society, thus neither the function of great individual nor the mass should be overlooked.
In sum, blessing or curse, the role of individuals throughout the history is undoubtedly more critical and decisive, compared to the role of the groups of people. And thus the historians should and have being put much emphasis on individuals. While carefully studying the achievements or negative deeds of individuals, we should also be circumspect with the functions of the common persons, whose attitudes also determine the general trends in a specific events, thus can partly lead to the lose or win.