Choose 7 people from history. What do you think their perspective on the present would be?
BTW, if you choose Jesus, explain why you would choose the historical Jesus instead of the ever-present risen Jesus.
2006-08-05 10:10:35 · 6 answers · asked by Wyld Stallyns 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
William Wallace – To inspire people to be willing to fight for individual freedoms.
William Shakespeare – Possibly he could revive an appreciation of the English language.
H. L. Mencken – If we ever needed an expert curmudgeon it is now.
Lysander Spooner – As one of the great writers of Constitutional law understanding and interpretation of Magna Carta, and individual freedom.
Walt Disney – Someone who kept his appreciation of childhood’s imagination.
Nikola Tesla – One of the great creative minds and the one who proved Alternating Current superior over Edison's Direct Current..
Jay Minor – He who developed the best desk top computer (the Amiga) and the best desk top operating system (Amiga DOS) using the best microchip (the Motorola 68000).
2006-08-05 13:57:17 · answer #1 · answered by Randy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps you are looking for a representative sample for your history report. :-) Let's see what I can come up with.
1) Albert Einstein - perhaps one of the greatest thinkers of all time
2) Sun-Tzu - wrote THE treatise on the conducting of warfare, which is still relevant today
3) Augustine, Bishop of Hippo - probably the most important figure in Western society in terms of sexual mores and theological views
4) Benjamin Franklin - a polymath, perhaps the finest citizen of early American history
5) Hippocrates - laid the fountation of medical effects that persists today
6) Catherine the Great, Tzarina of Russia - one of the most powerful women in history
7) Emperor Nero Caesar - because we need a bad guy :-)
Nero would probably approve of the increasing hedonism in modern society. Hippocrates would be impressed that we've developed an advanced knowledge of medicine without doing unnecessary harm on the environment. Catherine would rejoice that women are the heads of government in a significant number of countries. Augustine would be glad that the Christian faith has survived the rise and fall of empires. Franklin would smile at the thought that Americans have kept both their freedom and their sense of humour. Einstein might be horrified at how his work has led the world to the brink of destruction, but sigh relief that we haven't done it. Sun-Tzu would probably would be interested to see how his theories of warfare have evolved into the world of business and politics.
And all of them would find San Dimas, California, to be a most excellent place to be. :-)
2006-08-05 22:39:54 · answer #2 · answered by Ѕємι~Мαđ ŠçїєŋŧιѕТ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 Leonardo DaVinci.....Could you imagine what he could come up with today!
2 Mozart...the original rock superstar would set music on it's ears!
3 Benjamin Franklin...free thinker, visionary, what a Secretary of State he would be!
4 Albert Einstein...hook him up with Da Vinci, we'd be swingin' on a star!
5 Hercules.........because we could use a hero.
6 Mother Teresa..........because we could use a Saint.
7 Abraham Lincoln....he deserved another chance at life and the presidency
What would their perspective on the present be?
I believe they would think that we need to get back to work and clean up this mess.
2006-08-06 01:16:10 · answer #3 · answered by Muinghan Life During Wartime 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Jefferson - maybe he could restore a sense of democracy in America.
George Orwell (literary history, I suppose) - to show him what really happened after 1984.
Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Leonardo DaVinci, Galileo, and Charles Darwin - imagine what they could accomplish in these times.
2006-08-05 17:31:22 · answer #4 · answered by VerdeSam 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Socrates
Thomas Aquinas
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Rembrandt
Galileo
Mozart
Shakespeare
Why? I would love to discover their reactions to the world/technology of today. Also, I would love to talk to them about their past works, lost works, and misinformation.
(Jesus, Buddha, Mohamed - that is a WHOLE 'nother kettle of balled up wax fish)
2006-08-05 17:37:31 · answer #5 · answered by Tonks_Fan! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus...i want to see him, i want to believe in him and fight for him and not deny him three times, even if it meant my life.
John Lenon..i want someone who loves life like that to come bak.
the hippies, i want to live like that.
i cant think of any more
2006-08-11 09:17:22 · answer #6 · answered by Sue 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋