Does history matter? Explain.
Off course history matters!! many times people, like me, believe that hisstory is rather boring sometines. But i do believe that it matters! History is the bulding blocks of our country and pretty much the whole world. We do need history because based upon it we can learn of the mistakes that were done before from previous generations and try make better of it!without history we wouldnt know were we come from, and if we didnt know that, i think it would be a little problem! History defines us and our growth in all aspects.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
lies lies lies!!
"History is the lie commonly agreed upon." What did Voltaire mean by this quote?
I believe that Voltaire meant many things by this quote! Since we are in elementary school we learn about history. All types of history : american, world, etc. previous to this we didnt have any knowledge, so everything that we were told we believed!! i didnt know many things were a lie until i got into my wonderful history teacher Mr.Meechin's class! so know i see that what this quote means is that history is the lie that is commonly agreed upon because we believe what we hear! we believe everything because we accept it as the truth, as we are not previously knowledge on the fact that is all a lie! so we all agree upon history as we are told it!
I believe that Voltaire meant many things by this quote! Since we are in elementary school we learn about history. All types of history : american, world, etc. previous to this we didnt have any knowledge, so everything that we were told we believed!! i didnt know many things were a lie until i got into my wonderful history teacher Mr.Meechin's class! so know i see that what this quote means is that history is the lie that is commonly agreed upon because we believe what we hear! we believe everything because we accept it as the truth, as we are not previously knowledge on the fact that is all a lie! so we all agree upon history as we are told it!
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