What is History?
History is anything that has happened in the past. This isn’t necessarily just important things that have happened but anything that has been seen or done. Everyone has a history of what has happened in their lives. For instance, I woke up this morning, ate breakfast, went to school, and started typing this article. My history is being made as the seconds pass by and so is everyone else’s. by the time that I have finished this essay it will be a part of my life’s history.
Of the four theories of history the one that I think is the best and most worth proving to be the whole entire concept of history is the Hegelian Theory. I am going to explain to you why I think this and what all of the theories of history are. When I am done explaining I hope that I will have grabbed your attention into why I think that the Hegelian theory is the best.
The Hegelian Theory is the most accurate way of describing how history happens through time. It is a cause and effect type concept that leads out into the final concept of the events that had happened in the past. Thesis + Antithesis= Synthesis. This is just coming from one event to the final outcome. When one thing happens another will follow in result of the starting event. For instance, in the summer X-games of 2008 a skateboarder had around 25 feet of air on a ramp, He misjudged the trajectory and lost his board and landed on his back, his shoes flew off his feet on impact and he broke his femur bone and was out for the season. This is an example of the Hegelian theory. This theory makes up the other theories.
The linear theory of history is showing us the range of the important events in history and what they were and when they happened. That everything was planned to happen that specific day that it did. Another concept of the linear theory is clumping all of the important dates in history into one area. But in reality everything happens for a reason and that reason is what makes the synthesis in the Hegelian theory. The linear Theory doesn’t go into any detail about how the event happened. It is only an outline of history. It only covers the broad aspect of what history is and that is that it has happened. When you look at how the linear theory is being brought by you it just shows you a time line with recorded ‘important” events in our history. The events on that timeline are important to the worlds’ history; but what about the history being made by us and our peers? I guess we don’t matter in this world. Linear is probably the most common way that people look at history. But when you look at it, it is not the best way. 
The next theory is the cyclic theory. This is the theory that history comes in a cycle. That when one thing happens it will come around and happen again. Take a look at the repeated events in history. You have the two ice ages, and the two World Wars. Both had repetitive events. In the World Wars Hitler decided to attempt to make a pure German power by killing off all of the other races. The main race that he despised was the Jewish religion. We have a firsthand account of that with The Diary of Anne Frank. A young girl named Anne Frank wrote sown the history of the events that happened to her during the World War. Then there is the two Ice Ages. They froze the earth and killed off many animals which cause them to go extinct. Such as the Wholly Mammoth and Some people have a theory that the two ice ages killed off the dinosaurs as well. But during this Cycle you have to put into effect that the Hegelian theory is what is proving these events to happen for the reason that they did. A cycle is reoccurring events or the same thing over and over again. But when it comes to history a cycle is only as good as the events that go through it.Then there is the Vortex Theory of History. This tells us how history fluctuates through time; in how it gets Large and then small, Large and then small. This theory is pretty accurate because when you look at the timeline for the linear theory than you can see that there is a larger amount of recorded history at times than others. But in reality the amount of history being collected is always the same. As I have said before everyone will make history but not all history will be recorded for generations to come. The Vortex theory to me is the same thing is the linear theory. You place the history down where it was recorded and then you can look at it on a graph. It’s a good way to show history but not a good way of describing how it has happened. The Hegelian theory will build up to the vortex theory by placing the events inside of it to create the fluctuating changes of the vortex.
In Conclusion, as I have described all of the theories of History and how they come together to make the broad aspect of History I have been proclaiming that the Hegelian Theory is the best out of all of them. It describes every event in life and how they have came to be. These events don’t have to be important to be a part of history. History is everything that has happened in the past; but not just the important things. I can make history and so can everyone else in the world but whether the history is important enough to be recorded is the real question. As I say this last sentence I am recording this in my history.
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