Thursday, September 2, 2010

Dailies number 3.

Countries should not leave out their history even if it is bad. However convening them is not going to be easy especially to someone about making themselves look bad if its "bad news" for them. Also by covering these facts up you miss out on some of the most important details of that time. As well as lies are not always taken in the best of ways. Lies start wars, such as, the Spanish American War in which the president stated that the USS Maine was sunk by a Spanish mine, which in reality was blown up by a coal bin explosion. Not only has this time been an example but many other places in history have been lied to to start propaganda towards some goal that person wished to accomplish. If these parts of history were not lied/ left out there would probably be less wars.

Dailies number 2.

With out knowing history we cannot make progress. Without knowing what happened how can we make move towards the future? People will keep making the same mistakes over and over and nothing new could ever get done! Just as the great Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." we need history to stop messing up even though we do.



  Santayana, George. Quotations by Author George Santayana. QuotationsPage. Michael Moncur. 1994-2010.
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