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blagie [28]
3 years ago
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IDENTIFYING POINT OF VIEW This is an excerpt from the essay “Why Study History?” by William H. McNeill. What is McNeill’s opinio

n of the study of history? Cite two specific ideas from the excerpted passage that support the author’s opinion. Do you agree with McNeill? Do you think knowing about McNeill’s past experiences and current work may help you better understand his opinion? Why or why not? “History offers innumerable heroes and villains. Reading about what people did in far away times and places enlarges our sense of human capacities both for good and evil. Encountering powerful commitments to vanished ideas and ideals, like those that built the pyramids, puts our personal commitment to our own ideals into a new perspective, perhaps bitter-sweet. Discovering fears and hopes like our own in pages written by the medieval Japanese courtier, Lady Murasaki, or reading about the heroic and futile quest for immortality undertaken by the ancient Mesopotamian king, Gilgamesh, stirs a sense of shared humanity that reaches back to the beginning of civilization and across all cultural barriers. On the other hand, studying alien religious beliefs, strange customs, diverse family patterns and vanished social structures shows how differently various human groups have tried to cope with the world around them. Broadening our humanity and extending our sensibilities by recognizing sameness and difference throughout the recorded past is therefore an important reason for studying history, and especially the history of peoples far away and long ago. For we can only know ourselves by knowing how we resemble and how we differ from others. Acquaintance with the human past is the only way to such self knowledge.”
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Hoochie [10]3 years ago
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Answer:

i really dont know

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