are you so different from others?”‚ and “Why is the way you dress unique?” I give them all the same answers‚ I tell them I am who I am today because of my past experience. I never go into details about telling people what my past experience was that made me who I am today‚ but at the inner most part of my mind I knew that it was because of my past experience in boarding school and the influence my mom had on me at that time of my life that made me who I am today. I was nine
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must‚ if we are to understand our world. If we know things of the past on a larger time scale‚ we may seek possible outcomes to our future or answers to our recent world history. History is like one big puzzle‚ and there more pieces you put together‚ the bigger the picture becomes. David Christian talks about looking at the whole of time in historical
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perhaps one of the few countries globally to welcome people despite their variable backgrounds and still remain collectively competitive. Indeed‚ credit is due to Singapore’s society past or present‚ had been seen to be shaped with a strong sense of history in mind‚ in order for the country to progress for the past 4 decades. This development has proven to be of utmost priority in the society moving forward‚ taking into consideration our multi-diversified nation with a myriad of cultures and races
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Assignment: Is it necessary to know the events of the past to understand those of the present? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples take from your reading‚ studies‚ experience‚ and observations. Everything that has happened now has a link to the past and it is important for us to understand what had happened before to avoid making the same mistake in the future. Sometimes‚ even if the mistake is repeated
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understand change and to learn how the society we live in came to be. History can open doors to your heritage and Identity. In addition to helping you understand ‘who we are ’ and ‘how we came to be’ History can also teach us about mistakes made in the past by others so that we can avoid making them again. If you don’t know History you don’t know your culture or your way of life so you might as well never learn you place or part in the world. That’s why most modern nations believe its important that
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biography of kings and famous personalities. It is instead the investigation of the past intended in ample sense; and it comprehends the study of culture‚ thoughts‚ habits‚ political institutions and many other aspects of society. This concept was very clear to Herodotus and Voltaire‚ two historians that‚ although lived a totally different period and contest‚ share some affinities in the way in which they write about the past. They both were interested in the cultural history‚ in the usefulness of history
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you pay is with your own time‚ and which you will not be able to recover: all that you lived up until now is gone — you just can’t reclaim that time. Stop clinging to the past and make the most of your life right now. One of the most important lessons about economic costs is that sunk costs are sunk. That means they are in the past and the best thing to do is to just forget about them and not let them affect future decision-making. So as an example of this‚ in 1988‚ Apple Computer bought memory chips
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a mocking tone and a provocative tone to express that humans nowadays take their lives for granted and they do not realize that not everyone in the world has such an easy life. Dillard does a tremendous job on describing the lives of humans in the past and the present‚ mapping out scenarios describing the “easy life” during a certain time period. As well as trying to get the reader to appreciate what they have in life‚ she also reminds us of how we need to challenge our worldview. Her overall
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part of who and what we are‚ and it can determine what we will become. As humans‚ we possess free agency; we can determine our future to great degrees with one simple decision‚ we may deceive ourselves into believing the past has no impact on us; however‚ the choices we make and past events we have witnessed have very profound and long-lasting impacts on any decision we have made‚ are making now‚ or ever will make. Heritage is an unconscious accumulation of heredity‚ judgments‚ and environmental factors
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and also lastly living in the present. What I realized was‚ Peter one of the characters is always dwelling on the past. He makes the audience realize that he has missed his opportunity‚ but if he were to be given a chance he would want to go back in time and change his choice of leaving Kari. In the play he kept asking for a second chance from Kari. He knows what he did in the past was wrong and he begged for the narrator to go back a million years so he can redo the decisions he made. But the narrator
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