past experiences. When a child touches a hot stove and burns their hand‚ they quickly learn not to do it again and have a memory of experience that will help them make better choices in the future. This is probably why it is said “we get wiser as we get older”. The same concept can be applied to studying history. By taking others experiences and analyzing the outcome‚ one could save themselves from making a mistake or causing embarrassment. The importance of studying and understanding history but
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The Study of Prior History Winston Churchill is reported to have said: “Those who fail to learn from history‚ are doomed to repeat it”. And yet since the beginning of time‚ from biblical and ancient history to the present‚ history seems to be repeating itself. Going back about 2000 years ago‚ the Romans did not learn from the Babylonians when they invaded the Hebrews and a few hundred years later the Persians did the same. In the last century‚ Nazi Germany did not learn from Napoleon Bonaparte
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Garrigus It is both necessary and helpful to the study the context of prior history because it reveals who we are in relation to other people‚ cultures‚ and countries. They study of history can make up one’s whole being and how they live in a day-to-day basis. History can influence the way a person can process information‚ view other races and cultures‚ and even speak. There is an old saying “ If we don’t know where we come from‚ then we don’t know where we going”. Studying history helps us makes
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Why study history? -To know about our past (archaeology) -to learn from our past mistakes - History helps us understand change -to broaden our knowledge People live in the present and they plan for and worry about the future. History‚ however‚ is the study of the past. Given all the demands that press in from living in the present and anticipating what is yet to come‚ why bother with what has been? Given all the desirable and available branches of knowledge‚ why insist-as most American educational
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Why Study History? By Anita J. Rowe DeVry University May 11‚ 2013 Professor Betsy Anderson Why Study History? Why should we study history? Why should we study about the participants in that history? What should we hope to gain from these studies? I hope to answer these questions‚ but first we must think about where we get our information about historical facts. How reliable are they? How do we know the truth? The study of history is both interesting and beneficial but we have to have a
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Peter Sterns says that we need to study history and here are a few reasons why we should study history: History Helps Us Understand People and Societies- We can use history from the past to explain why we act the way we do. We can also use the past to formulate laws or theories about human behavior. History Helps Us Understand Change and How the Society We Live in came to be- we can use history to understand why things occur and history shows us a trend we can see what made a trend rise or fall and according
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passage Why Study History written by William H. McNeill‚ the most important statement is “Historical knowledge is no more and no less than carefully and critically constructed collective memory”. McNeill believes that history can both make us wiser when we are making our public choices and more richly human in our private lives. Sterns‚ the author of our textbook- World Civilizations‚ the Global Experience‚ has the same statement in the preface of the book. He states that “world history explores
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1) WHY AM I STUDYING HISTORY? I started doing History as an academic subject in high school and found it very interesting back then‚ and this fascination with the subject has continued to be there. Although many people disregard history as important and influential‚ I believe the opposite because for humans to develop as a race‚ we have to keep in touch with‚ or at least understand what happened in the past before we got to where we are now; why it happened; how it happened and who were the people
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Why Study History? The introductions for the topic “what is history”‚ one written by Edwin Fenton and the other by Peter N. Stearns each depicts why history is something essential and worth studying and the significance of history as how events from the past impacts the behaviour of individuals and changes in society. From the point of view of the introduction written by Peter N. Stearns on the importance of history‚ he demonstrates examples such as how history allows us to understand
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The question of why history should be studied is often asked‚ and many have worked to bring to light their opinion of how this question should be answered. History offers information about how societies behave‚ and people need to have some sense of how societies function to run their own lives. One can grasp how societies change‚ what causes the changes‚ and what elements of society endure despite them. Another perspective on human life is promoted through history. A student of history can test his
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