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Question: Is history bunk? (Henry Ford Quote)?

“History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history that we make today.” (Chicago Tribune, 1916).

I want an in depth view of Why history is important to society.

Answer: First off You are mistankly taking the quote and running with it rather than examining it’s context. The quote was not about history itself but about the current times (1916) and how Ford felt WW1 was being fought in part because of greviances from far past and not because of its present time. An example (all be it a bad one) would be if some group that had one point been treated horribly wrong lets say Jews, blacks, or Native Americans started a war now because of what had hapened to them in a different time. Some people would feel what had happened to them had been a long time ago and therefore the history did not matter.
To the second part of your question of why history is important it is because history is what makes the present. think of it this way, take a moment in your life, and imagine it as if it had never happened, lets say a move when you were young, that changed your life, a marriage that led to children without those kids your life is different right? So now take that context and apply it to the world if that war had not been fought who would be in charge?, If that philosopher (lets say Confuscious) we might not have Buddhisim, etc. Do you see what i am saying? Another thing about history is it is the only science that encompasses all other fields of study, in math we deal with srtictly numbers yet in historical math we learn how people came to use their particualr counting system and why, when it changed, etc. In Literature we study the use of words to tell stories and define what those words mean, in history we relate how those words could and would be said because of the time frame it was written… History is populary taught as a social science and not one of the three R’s (reading, writing, arithmetic) yet without history we have none of those. History is not learning facts about who did what when and how and why but it is the study of when how and why we are now.

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart Wed!

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Henry Ford: Important Historical Information

MMA’s Kevin ‘Monster’ Randleman has settled down from wild life

Kevin Randleman, left, fights Mike Whitehead at a recent MMA match. (Esther Lin/Strikeforce) Kevin Randleman has lost seven of his past 10 mixed martial arts fights and at age 38, the one-time UFC heavyweight champ recognizes the importance of his fight Saturday against Roger Gracie to his continued livelihood in the sport he loves.

Yoshihiro Akiyama – KBS 2005 – (4/6)

Question: Ford Lightning Performance Upgrades?

I have a stock 2003 Ford Lightning. I would like to know what some good upgrades would be for exhaust, air intake, pulley systems, etc…. and to get the most house power. I would like to gain 200 hp. I do not want to rip the engine apart, just bolt ons.

Thanks,
Henry

Answer: your best bet is a underdrive pulley for the blower, raise it to 10-12 lbs

Task force members

DEARBORN — The following individuals are volunteer members of the city’s new Community Task Force:

Henry Ford Health System: 2009 Media Highlights

The good, the bad and the ugly of 2009

The year 2009 may not be looked fondly upon by many on the Main Line as it acted as a reminder that prosperity is not a constant, even here.

It’s long been known that an Academy Award is strongly correlated with money and fame for the recipients. A new study shows that the Award recipients are also better fit physically, tend to live longer and have more kids than most people.

An explanation may be that the Award is an indication of certain superior physical traits of the winner. “This is a clever study and a fun dataset”, said the evolutionary biologist Michael Ryan at the University of Texas.

The Award showed a strong correlation with the life span. It was a matter of course to research whether Oscar awards are also correlated with reproductive fitness, said the behavioral ecologist Mark Hauber at New Zealand’s University of Auckland.

Hauber looked into the demographics for more than ninety actors between 1929 and 2001: age, how many times they were married, number of children, Academy Awards. The result showed that male winners have an average of nearly four kids, Marlon Brando being the front rank with eleven children. Concurrently ordinary Americans have an average of 1.2 children. Hauber called the Academy Awards a signal of superior quality to potential mates.

University of Texas’s Ryan also agrees with two of Hauber’s explanations: actors who win Oscars already have features that appeal to potential mates; and Oscars gives them more money and time for kids.

However Hauber’s theory was challenged by professor Mike Wade of Indiana University. Wade says that the signal is false because of “the immense political and social machinery mobilized by the movie studios to promote their products”. He also thinks Hauber should have compared Award winners with actors who were just nominated Winners live longer than actors who are just nominated, according to Science Magazine.

Actresses who are Oscar winners have an average of 1.5 children, which is slightly more than average American women, found a new study from the Journal of Ethology. The study did not count whether the actresses were divorced or remarried.

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David Gibbons “In Discussion” Broadcasts Special Program with Actor Michael York OBE on VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network

Celebrated Actor Michael York OBE to join David Gibbons on his program “In Discussion” on Wednesday December 30 at 3.00pm Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.

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