The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives.
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Does the study of history has value only when is relevant to our daily lives? The question will gain a positive answer, but something it suggests is not the case.

Above all, we should be aware of one thing that the study of history relevant to our daily lives does be useful. Take an important human requirement such as identification. Through biological procedures, scientists could identified one’s DNA which may tell you how you like your ancient on genetic level. This is considerablly advance. But a person, as one of her/his group, has a history. For many persons, studying the history of their own family is the most obvious use of history, for it provides genetic information and understanding of how their family changed and varied. Who am I? Where do I come from? How my parents, parents of my parents, etc. look like? How did they live? Are there any thing remain the same between me and them? All these questions can not be solved in technique way only. History is indispensable in explaning and understanding these problems.

How about those which do not refer to our daily lives? Do they contribute our lives? My answer is not, however not because they are not valuable but I don not think there are history that is indifferent with modern life, that is what the title statement suggest and I think is not the case.

Let us focus on the definition of history. History is the way people in the past did things, the remaining of prehistory society, old buildings, old books, old things of techniques which reflect cultures, peoples, society in the past. Things happen continuously without being break out, which means we can not just seperate the whole precess of human being into several past one of which called “history”. What is in history is something in modern life too but in different ways. In short, there is no history indifferent with out daily lives.

History gives us experiences, history gives us beautiful apperacne, history gives us knowledge about how things changed. History helps resolve long-term problems. To fully analysis a long-term problem, it will be neccesary to handle plenty of material of different eras which need historical records. History contribute to moral understanding. History is the main way in which people establish good citizenship. History exists nearly everywhere.

Admittedly, there does be things of history which seem to have no practical use such as a stone-axe which may be used by pr**** people, a small house built thousand years ago, some strange cloth material found under the ground. Although these does not play the same role in modern society as in their own era, they will absolutely have new things to do. The stone-axe may be evidence of certain brand of ancient people, the small beautiful house can stimulate local trip industry and local economic in turn, the strange material can be good researching material. In another word, even those historical factors which seems useless have their own position.

So, now do you think study of history has value only when is relevant to our daily lives? Since all study of history are relevant to our daily lives, we will surely give a Yes.

The author give an explanation of the charities’ “non-average” gaining of donations that educational institutions are less in need of donations than are other kinds of institutions. However, the author provides neither enough evidence about the unfair condition of donations nor sufficient support to his reason for the phenomenon.

As cited, Religious groups and environmental groups gained 55 percent of donations in the last year while educational institution experienced a 3 percent increase in donations. Obviously, the author try to present that educational institution gained less donations than other kind of institution, which, however, has nothing relevant to what the author provided. Without mentioning any other type of organizations, the article has no negative evidence that the rest part of the total donations could not be gain by environmental, which takes up 45 percent of all, which is much more than religious groups’ 30 percent. After all, we have no idea about the donations number of educational institution last year. If only the number is big enough, what we assume is totally possible. What is more, the number of those organizations involved in this poll is just 200 while the total number nonprofit groups is not provided. We can not assure the validity of the poll’s result which can affect our conclusion very much.

The author claims that differences in donation rates must result from the perception that educational institutions are less in need of donations than are other kinds of institutions. To find the reason of the differed donation rates, one should make a full analysis of changes in donations rates in the past. When did the differences occur significantly? Once we determine when the difference began, we can try to identify which of factors present at the time combined to set the donations difference in. However, the author has not done any similar work, or has not provide at least, which unfortunately makes his convincing unsound.

In summary, to give explanation to certain phenomenon, there are two important things. For one thing, one should carefully identify what the phenomenon exactly is, when did it occur and provide available factors which can contribute to the phenomenon. For another thing, one should make full analysis and compare to find out the real reason other than simply select one as the final answer. As far as this article is concerned, the author do neither above well, as a result, the conclusion is not credible for me.

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It seems wise for the trucking companies to raise their drivers’ pay and limit the overall numbers of hours their drivers drive in order to reduce their accident rate. However, the author does not provide sufficient support to his conclusion.

Quoting the evidence of the Longhaul trucking company, the author try to present that by following these policies of Longhaul, one trucking company can easily reduce its accident rate, which need further consideration. For one thing, we have got no signal that after these policies being granted, the accident rate of the Longhaul trucking company did declined. What the author provides is that the number of accidents in the next year is half of the year before. But as we all know, the accident number and the accident rate is totally different concepts. With the total miles of driving declined, it is very likely to have a higher accident rate than before even though the number of accident declined too. For another thing, there is no evidence that these policies do have something to do with the reduced number of accidents. Are these things cited in the article all the company has done to improve the accident condition? Are there any Global factors such as an economical crisis which make the trucking market considerably shrink so that the total number of truck-driving reduced as well as the total accidents number? To establish a relationship between the phenomenon and the changes, the author should show a full analysis.

The survey about the highest-paid drivers who has least possibility to have an accident does not lend any support to the conclusion too. To arrive at the final conclusion, it is necessary that it is the highest-pay which makes the least possibility of accident, which is, however, obviously not the case. Truck accident is something can change one’s life markedly–for example, making one dies. In another word, driving carefully is something very relative to the driver herself/himself, it is impossible for a driver to not drive carefully risking losing her/his life just because of low salary. When is driving, whether the driver is careful depends usually on an instinct skill other than fully considered conduct. So, the correct explanation should be it is because their careful driving that those drivers get the highest-pay, which ironically undermine the author’s reasoning.

Reducing accident rate is one of the most important things of a trucking company, it is direct relative to the total cost of a trucking company and consequently relative to the final profit. To reduce their accident rate, the author should make further consideration. For example, among the policies the Longhaul trucking company applied, there was an item that the company increased its training standards. Driving is some kind of skill, it can not be improved easily by emotion but through long-term training. This policy may be the core-policy which contributes to the low accident number very much. However, the author pays no attention to this element.

In summary, to make suggestion for reducing accident rate, the author should provide some practical method with fully proofs of their feasibility. As far as this article is concern, I can not agree with the author merely based on his viewpoint.