Some people think that history has nothing or little to tell us, but others believe that studying the past history can help us better understand the present. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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It is believed by some individuals that past has no majority in people’s lives, while others consider that people ought to know the past in order to have a more certain view about today's days.
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the past is not accurate science,
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, it can be represented as a list of failures educating us over
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ntire dwell. I do agree that the past has a big impact on people’s development and state at
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time. On the one hand, the past is inaccurate science due to the fact that it is made by researching archaeological findings and might be viewed with various points. Historians have tones of debates about any research and theory and some scientists believe that the past does not deserve its calling as “science” due to these uncertainties.
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, humanity cannot be absolutely sure about the past.
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, preceding mistakes made by ourselves are lessons of life helping us to enhance the present. Nowadays, people are living in a developed world with a sustainable state because of looking back to the irrational preceding decisions and failures.
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, the economic crisis in the USA was caused by a tremendous stock market crash.
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the USA is one of the most developed states in the globe. In conclusion, both points of view have pros and cons.
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, most of the people are misjudging the importance of past since the whole discoveries were done by learning from the possessed experience, which is why it would not be an injustice to say that past has no value in what people have these days.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • insights
  • progression
  • values
  • beliefs
  • heritage
  • identity
  • applicable
  • biased
  • subjective
  • practical
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