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Many persons believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it. But others have just the opposite view. They see old memories as a chance to reckon with the past and integrate past and present. Adapted from Sara Lawrence- Lightfoot, I’ve Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation.Assignment: Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point and examples taken from your reading, studies, experiences, or observations.
My homework:
Our memories serve as valuable experience for us to struggle for our future. As a mercurial element in our lives, experience not only decides our destination, but also trouble we will get into on the odyssey. I agree with Sara Lawrence’s opinions. No past, no satisfying future.
Francis Bacon said that learning history could make people wise and sensible. Take an example of Second World War. We know American government helped lots of countries rebuilt after this war, such as Germany, Japan. It seems that some countries receiving funds from the U.S may not reciprocate the U.S in the future. Nevertheless why did U.S execute this ridiculous apparently decision? In my opinions, America just wanted to prevent the wars like the Second one happening again. We know Germany, serving as the most gigantically military country in Second World War, went through serious depression caused by World War I during that period. In order to prevent similar situations happening again, America comprehended it should assist other countries in rebuilding both economics and politics, which would make these regions stable. Obviously, America learnt a lot from the World War I. Besides it still obtained lots of profits and values, likewise Germany or Japan. I deem Bacon’s saying makes sense in this situation.
In my personal experience, my memories not only make me more mature, but also offer me lots of living knowledge. I still remember my peers spoke ill of me when I was studying in elementary school. I always believed I treated others friendly and generously. My classmates, however, considered me to be selfish and arrogant, which ruined my ego and confidence for long time. I overcame this mental trouble, for I remembered there was a saying that the world is full of varieties of people, what you can do is being yourself. I began to do my own work ignoring how they talked about me. In middle school ,this situation happened again. I comprehended I should use my memories, my experience to guide myself. Fortunately, I took overlooking neglecting them for accounted. I was still fine.
Experience, whatever it is good or bad, always plays an essential function in our lives. I have a dream that one day we can judge according to our remembrance, for the paradise is just a place where we can decide our ways sagaciously.
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