Why shoudl we learn about Tragedy?
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Well, it's a good warning of what not to do.  \n   Consider the Shakespeare play Othello.  Othello was actually a pretty cool guy -- strong, honorable, and a very good soldier.  But he didn't know how to pick his friends.  He listened to that lying fukk Iago and believed him rather than his own beloved wife, Desdemona.  \n   It is a good example of the wrong way to live your life.
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Yup. I heard about 2days ago. I live in Detroit so it was one the local news not to long after it occured. It's a really sad thing. And I hate to say this, because of the outcome, but it usually takes a tragedy for people to understand consequences.
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Try this you may be able to sift through all the information and decide on where students may be able to help:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_management\nThere are many related external-links at the bottom also.\n\nGiven all the natural and man-made tragedies in the world, it sounds like a great project
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I'm WAY too curious of a person to be ignorant. I enjoy learning and understanding why things happen and I am constantly asking, "what if?" Definitely intelligent. If you learn about something and why it happens, you can understand it better and see a possible outcome, or different outcomes, and not be so stressed. Of course there are always things you'd like to be ignorant about, like accidentally seeing your grannie naked when you're a kid. Some things just weren't meant to be seen by young children!
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We hate because we are taught to hate, if hatred is not taught there can be no hatred, it is simply those that incite hatred in the world today, because of the hatred they have been taught themselves, and that is why there is so much hatred in the world today, it is sad for all of us that mankind nourishes such an emotion as hatred.
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And that is the whole point. And it means so much more than that!!  In drama, it's a term for "tragic flaw".\n\nGreek is such a wonderful language.\n\nAristotle used the term quite a bit.  As did the writers of the Greek tragedies:\n\nThe Greek word that describes what many people refer to as the "tragic flaw" of the hero of Greek tragedy, "hamartia" has a complex meaning which includes "sin," "error," "trespass," as well as "missing the mark" (as in archery–missing the bull's-eye). \n\nThe "mistake" of the hero has an integral place in the plot of the tragedy. The logic of the hero's descent into misfortune is determined by the nature of his or her particular kind of hamartia. \n\nAn in-depth study of the New Testment in Greek is required reading at seminary.
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What is the story about?  What does it teach us?
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We study this subject and others to "never forget" the horrible things people can do to each other and to keep them from happening again.  But alas, in my life time the world has allowed these things to go on over and over again!  Africa - Bosnia - the Middle East!  Other countries don't want to get involved until it affects them in the pocket.  Sadly, most wars through the centuries have been politically motivated rather than for the cause of humanity even though that is what is used as the pretext.\nStudy well, and make a difference!
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Life is all about choices.  Even when we are presented with horrible conditions, we always have more than one reaction or action possible.\nIf fate puts us where we are, our choices determine the outcome.
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unfortunate tragedy and beautiful scenery
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The purpose for us to study history is to learn from past mistakes and understand how our world came to be what it is. However, its funny to see that the thing we learn from history is that we don't learn at all. History will always repeat itself. However, the repitition won't be exact and sometimes not as severe. Looking at our situation,  its more than likely that we'll relive some aspects of history, and depending on the situation, the outcome may or may not be positive.
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I think that history plays a major role in our lives. How would we know anything or be able to do anthing without knowing what happened in the past first?
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Humanity. For we are all sailing in the same boat of pain and suffering, thus it is difficult for us to remember the lesson of compassion to fellow beings.
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I think because we have a true fear of violence and death and there is a tendency to be drawn to things that we fear.  Maybe to better understand it and maybe so that we can experience it outside of ourselves.  I also think that there are some really sick people out there and they thrive off of harm to others and want to do the harm themselves but do not want to deal with the consequences of those type of actions.
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That the war was not glorius. That it was torture for ALL the men who fought for their country and defenitely those who got injured or worse were killed. I mean we think of the World Wars and we study them but will we really understand what happened and how gruesome it was? No. But these movies will bring a close understanding to us about what it was like. Probably not close enough, but still close. It also teaches that the Nazis were wicked horrible men, men that were led in the wrong direction by a very wicked man, Hitler.
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Because, with out the pain, there would be no joy. With out the hard times, there would be no good. You learn from pain, and it's the sad truth. Pain turns into so many things, wisdom, strength, knowledge. Learn from it, don't be scared of it.
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People are people. Sometimes that means they need to convince themselves there's a reason they were lucky, or that they had some sort of aid to keep them going, or even that all the terrible things that happened in the 'hard times' happened for a reason ("they must have, the world couldn't be that cruel"). People have been using gods or stories about them to explain everything from the weather to lines of succession probably since before recorded history, it's not really surprising some people still need this sort of reinforcement now.