History

Pick a GCSE subject, and write about what sort of knowledge and/or ‘truth’ this subject conveys.

Subject: History

From the subject history, we are able to gain all sorts of different knowledge and truths. Not only do we learn about events of the past, but we are also able to learn about human psychology and the complex system of our society.

If you’ve never learned history in detail, it would seem like a subject with full of accurate facts and truths. But actually in some cases, the ‘truths’ that we think is true, is not as true as they seem to be. This is because all the facts that we learn about comes from the compilation of stories and opinions told/written by various people who were involved in that certain event. And although those stories and opinions seem reliable, everyone has different ways of perceiving things, and there is nothing to ensure that the stories aren’t exaggerated or made up. After people experience horrific events, they tend to exaggerate what happened in the event and make it seem even worse than it actually was. Take the Nazis for example. They didn’t always tell the truths, especially if they brought negative consequences. When the Reichstag building burnt down, it was reported that a Communist had set fire to the building. But after the Nazi rule were over, they confessed that it was actually them who set the fire.

Although the things we learn in history are true, the proof that we are given can deceive us to perceive things differently than how it actually was. So in the end, it is up to us to determine what is true by carefully looking through the knowledge that makes up the fact and finding its faults and proofs until there is nothing else to find.