Choose one of the following questions and write one full page answering ONE of the questions. OR, you may decide to combine all the questions into one response, since they are related, perhaps even different ways of asking the same question. The point is to explain your answer in some detail.
(1) What are the different purposes or reasons for recording or writing history?
(2) Does history reflect events or does it help to shape events? Or both?
(3) If histories is not simply the recording of objective facts, why bother studying history at all?