Write an essay of about 250 words to express your opinion on the following topic: Learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

There is a saying that ‘

History

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is who we are and why we are the way we are.

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is not just the past.

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is the present.’. While some people claim that learning about what happened in the past has nothing do to with us who are living in the present, I believe that it is important to study

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for some following reasons.

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with, studying lessons from the past is essential to mankind’s development as we can learn from forebears’ experience. The development of the world today is followed by the

past’s

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past

successes and failures. As lessons are drawn from historical events, man

learn

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learns

from ancestors’ mistakes and avoid repeating them in the future. It is particularly important for a

country

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’s citizens to learn about their

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so as to develop the

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without causing

catastrophe

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a catastrophe

. To cite Vietnam as an example, it is a Communist

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country despite

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country, despite

having been for centuries a colony of

France which

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France, which

is a prosperous Capitalism

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at that time. Throughout the

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, Vietnamese learn to know that Capitalism had tormented their people and only Socialist revolution could save their

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. The victory of Vietnam in The August Revolution is a lesson for other enslaved nations in the world to follow and achieve success.

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, the

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tells how fiercely their forefathers had been fighting for peace and independence.

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, they

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understood

the loss and the misery in the past and appreciate what they have today. Learning about what happened in the past makes them feel the gratefulness and the responsibility to develop the

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.

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, learning the

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is important as it teaches us to think. There are people saying that learning about what happened in the past is useless because the

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is just the record of place and time but it is more than that. When learning about the past, people think of the greatest question man could ever ask “Why?”. A historical event can be seen from many different angles and how it is judged makes it bad or good. In

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case,

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teaches us to see everything from other views and ask why

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.

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would deepen one mind and be helpful in other aspects of life.

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, if a person wants to study major in Politics, studying

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is vital to be

a

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an

excellent politician as it teaches him to see the problems from other perspectives and understand deeply the situation. In short, learning about the past is not useless at all. It is considered the

first

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step to building a better future for both individual and his

country

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.