Claim: Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
Reason: We are not able to make connections between current events and past events until we have some distance from both.
Knowledge of our rich past is a major luxury we have in modern world. We have come a long way in terms of societal development, but hadn't we at some point looked back and rectified the mistakes of the past - our legal systems, our government systems etc. would have been in complete chaos today. I believe, that given the dizzying pace we are developing today, understanding the past has become even more important. Our knowledge of history has helped us sift through a variety of social structures and tecnological mishaps, and has helped us better judge on what we think is the best way forward....
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Sentence: We have come a long way in terms of societal development, but hadn't we at some point looked back and rectified the mistakes of the past - our legal systems, our government systems etc. would have been in complete chaos today.
Error: hadn Suggestion: hand
Sentence: Our knowledge of history has helped us sift through a variety of social structures and tecnological mishaps, and has helped us better judge on what we think is the best way forward.
Error: tecnological Suggestion: technological
Sentence: However, behavioural scientists around the world seem to concur on the fact that all our acitons are in some sense a reflection of our past knowledge and experience.
Error: acitons Suggestion: actions
Sentence: This owuld have not been possible, if we had simply forgotten the incremental progress we made in the technology and science space.
Error: owuld Suggestion: would
Sentence: What we did in technology world, was - acrrue our past knowledge and then make these ideas substantially complexer to fit the needs of future.
Error: acrrue Suggestion: accrue
flaws:
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Don't put two paragraphs starting with 'however'
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Score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
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No. of Words: 676 350
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Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.099 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.797 4.6
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Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
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Sentence Length SD: 8.554 7.5
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Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.452 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.177 0.07
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