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Does history make the person or does the person make history?

January 18, 2008 - Posted by dosteele | 4th Grade | | 11 Comments

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  1. Hey, Jack Here. You may have seen my BIOGRAPHY comment. He(Joe DiMaggio) set rookie records for triples and home runs, was a 3-time MVP, and hit safely in 56 consectutive games. He was elected to the hall of fame in 1956. He died in 1999.

    Comment by Jack | January 18, 2008

  2. I think a persons history makes who they are. If you had a hard life you can’t just hope to get out of it, you have work your way out of it. If you have a good life growing up then you still have to work to keep it that way.

    Comment by Spencer | January 18, 2008

  3. A person makes history. Take Mickey Mantle as an example. He was the league leader in HR’s, RBI’s, and BA in 1956, winning baseball’s Triple Crown.

    Comment by Riley B. | January 18, 2008

  4. Meriweather Lewis started out as just a normal kid. He then became the president’s secretary, because he knew Thomas Jefferson. He was then set on an expedition. When he came back he was famous!

    Comment by Joe F. | January 18, 2008

  5. In my case people make history. Because Annei Oakley was a famous sharpshooter.

    Comment by Maddie O. | January 18, 2008

  6. I think its even. History preserves what happened when, where, how, and why. But the person decides when, where, how, why, and what when THEY want it to. Does that make sense?

    Comment by Chase L. | January 19, 2008

  7. For my biography person, John Muir, history made him and vice versa. He was surprised by the pollution and development of mankind and encouraged him to contribute to nature.

    Comment by John Lim | January 20, 2008

  8. I think that in both ways a person can make history and history can make a person. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. made the famous speech “I Have a Dream.” This made history, but when somebody is inspired by something that happened in history, history makes a person

    Comment by Jordan H. | January 21, 2008

  9. I think that a person makes history and history makes a person. I think this because George Washington didn’t have history make him who he was. George Washington made history. But then again history made him what he is now days. So I guess I could lean both ways depending on who the person is. So I can’t go to one side of the fence. I would be sitting right in the middle of a debate of this question.

    Comment by Lukas P. | January 23, 2008

  10. I think history makes the person and the person makes history because they have to be inspired to become history.

    Comment by Austin H. | January 24, 2008

  11. Looking at other peoples history makes a person decide what they want to do. Then a person makes history. In that case a person makes history and history makes a person. Kind of like what Austin said.

    Comment by Spencer | February 6, 2008


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