issue221 0906G三月底AW“永不言弃”互改小组第六次作业 by victor883 8#

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ISSUE221: The chief benefit of the study of history is to break down the illusion that people in one period of time are significant different from people who lived at any other time in history.

WORD:466                                                                                 09.02.10  

In this argument, the speaker contends that the study of history mainly serves to a new recognize to the human nature, that is something never changed over the span of human history. In some sense I agree with the argument that one of the primary contributions from the study of history is to make the people a notice that people in one period of time have little different from ones who lived in the other time of history. However, in my view the study of history also plays a significant role in the process of searching for the differences between the precursors and ourselves. Moreover, the study of history benefits us a lot in culturing our personalities and avoiding repeating mistakes, and lifting up the appreciate ability of culture.

First of all, the study of history can make us have a better knowledge of some historical events and find some general rules in the complexity and difficulty of the history, which can encourage us to face our failings and foils in the business of everyday lives and then enables us to develop health personalities. Through the learning of the biographies of some personalities we can obtain some charming characteristics of them, such as diligence, persistency and tenacity. For example, a native and authentic history story about a climber who surmounts lots of difficulties and adversities reached the peak successfully at the end, can largely spur learners to pursuit their aims in their own fields.
Secondly, an important role of studying history which should not be overlooked is the lesson of some mistakes. The people who know history a lot may avoid to repeating any mistake which took place in history, and our whole society may take some shortcuts in the path of development because of the lessons of history.
Moreover, to learn history is also conducive to the form of people’s appreciating abilities, especially in some history heritages. And it is this ability that makes us aware the importance of the protecting these heritages and at the end enriches the whole society.
Admittedly, the study of history can make people to concern themselves clearly such as the unchanged nature of human. Wars and violence
cannot be avoid in any period because of the human nature of selfish, while the further continuing study and research in every endeavors of human manifests the innate charter of curiosity. And understanding these stable characters make the social members not too cynic to the whole society and guard us to deal with problems correctly.
To sum up, the roles of studying history are various and should not be limited to find out the commons between people in different eras. And we can attain a lot in the process of studying history not only for the individual but for the whole society.