The Importance of History

     Have you ever heard "he who controls the past controls the future"? A lot of people don't care about their history. Others say that what happen in our past doesn't affect our future, but they are wrong. History is really important for all of us. Our view of history shapes the way we view our present. If we know more about our history, we can understand who we are and where we came from. Also by knowing more about our history, we can learn from and try to avoid the mistakes we once did in the past. So I would say that our knowledge about our past is really significant for our everyday lifes.

The Truth Behind The Lie

     Who can tell the truth, the one that survived to write it, or the one that died and can't tell us? "History is the lie commonly agreed upon" said Voltaire. For many years, we have learned about history through the point of view of those who have survived to tell us, but how can you know that is the truth? Lets take Christopher Columbus as an example, was he really a hero like we have been told? How can we be sure about what really happened when neither Indians nor slaves could tell us about their point of view? So I think that history is the biggest lie we agreed upon, since we don't have the others' point of view.