Some believe that history has little to teach us about today while others think that the study of the past helps us to understand the present. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

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Learning from the previous time make people have different opinions, some think they can little learn from it about nowadays
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others believe history teaches them to realize the present situation. From my point of view, we can adapt the past knowledge to invent the new thing to use today. On one hand, some people who think they can little study from history said, some information in the past is not updated,
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using it to learn about these days is not appropriate. Teachingnowadays,
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, involves many technologies
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as using the internet to search for information and having an online course. If they learning from the previous time, it will not be up to date. Because it uses only textbooks and a blackboard to teach.
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, others argue that it helps them to understand the situation today. Some events in the past teach them to do not to fail in it again.
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, the Tom Yum Kung crisis which occurred in 1999 in Thailand made a large number of citizens go bankrupt.
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, the Thai government had a more strict policy regarding the economy. It represents the administration learns from the failure in the previous. From my perspective, I believe we can learn from history to adapt the old knowledge in order to invent new things. Namely, former, we had the glider which could travel by air. From the innovation, we can learn and develop it to be a plane these days. In conclusion, some can gain little learn from the former about the present because some info in the previous time does not update,
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others disagree with it because they believe the past help them to recognize the situation today. I consider that we can acquire knowledge from the old days to improve it to be a new invention.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • valuable lessons
  • insights
  • root causes
  • current problems
  • past mistakes
  • repeating
  • generations
  • informed decisions
  • irrelevant
  • unique
  • contemporary solutions
  • technological advancements
  • thorough understanding
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