When Alexander first conquered the Greek empire everyone called him great but to this day there is a discussion wether he is great or not. Today Alexander's perception has changed because of the time and distance there is from the time that he conquered countries and the spread of hellenistic culture to today. This relates to a game that many kids have played when they were young, telephone. The first person starts with a simple phrase and through out the line people start to question what the phrase is. When the last person finally receives the phrase they say it aloud and the final phrase is completely different from the starting phrase. This shows that as time and distance pass humans question and wonder the past events that have happened in history.
Time and distance doesn't just apply to people it can also apply to ideas internationally. For example, during World War II Adolf Hitler used massive gas chambers to kill a large mass of people. Currently Syria has done the same thing but after many years. Majority of humans think that chemical weapons should not be allowed and especially to kill several innocent children and adults. During World War II it was ok to use chemical weapons but as several years have passed and people think that the use of chemical weapons should be banned. The same concept applied for Alexander. Alexander killed many people to conquer the countries that he did, but as time has moved on and years have passed people wonder is he really great. When the Romans told the story of Alexander they made the killing of thousands of people sound fine. The more the story was passed through years the thought of the massive killing changed every time and the discussion has caught up to modern day.
Someone's popular perception or universal idea can be impacted by just time and distance. Alexander is called Alexander the great, but today the question "Is he really that great" has developed over time. No matter what someone did or how great an idea is time and distance will eventually change the way humans look at what happened in history.
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Good use of facts and more modern examples, but try to better link your examples to the question. Explain why your examples represent the answer to your question. Good citations. Try to go more in-depth into your information.
ReplyDeleteI feel like you are answering the first question
ReplyDeleteStill, good ideas and examples just maybe link them to the question a bit more
Also a little awkwardness in some body paragraphs
Introduction was a little irrelevant in the beginning
The 3rd paragraph was a great connection to the question, but I feel that you are talking more about greatness. I would put more emphasis into time and distance, rather than talking about the background that Alexander had. In the conclusion, I would make it a bit more universal.
ReplyDeleteGood structure. I don't know what most of it had to do with popular perception though. You are the only one to use Syria as an example, good job.
ReplyDeleteGood job Austin. You made some good points. the #1 thing that popped out at me is that you kept talking about the first question. Get rid of all that. I'm not saying its wrong, its just irrelevant. Besides that you had some good ideas and good organization.
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