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Why Communism Still Exist?

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“History is a narration of the events which have happened among mankind, including an account of the rise and fall of nations, as well as of the other great changes which have affected the political and social condition of the human race.—John J. Anderson. When asked to recall history the first thing that comes to most people’s minds is boring class in high school that involved memorizing dates, people’s names, and a bunch of other things that they cannot remember. The main thing most people fail to realize is that without history, we would not exist, there would be no science, art, or culture. If these things did not exist, then we would have nothing, and we would simply forget what we are and where we came from. Throughout history the greatest …show more content…

It would be hard to imagine why we do such things like saying “please you” after someone sneezes without history, what would be even harder though is accepting how the world came to be. Though the facts of the world we are able to understand why things are the way that they are, it would be hard to explain why communism still exists without a detailed explanation of the lazy human who created it in the first place. This goes the same way with why we care so much about all these different gods that we cannot see and do not even have a definite proof of their …show more content…

Are all forms of though not the same? The simple answer to that question is no. A philosopher attempts to understand the meaning of human existence. While a literary scholar attempts to understand not only text but art as well. Finally you have historians whose goal is to understand the reasons behind all the amazing, wonderful, good and downright horrifying things that have happened over the course of time. Since a historians cannot observe or experience the past, the must use what are called primary sources. The use of primary sources is important because they offer the true and unaltered version of history. They are key to the work of a historian because without them there is no way to have a true unaltered, and more importantly unbiased version of historical events. Also they are help regular people understand history better. This is because often people see history as only facts and truths that come from an oversized textbook. When a person uses a primary source they learn that a textbook is only one person’s interpretation of history and not the whole truth. Primary sources show the true unaltered history that is not biased, misinterpreted, and that adds a raw passion to the lessons we are reading about. “Primary sources help students relate in a personal way to events of the past and promote a deeper understanding of history as a series of human events.” - Library of

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