The main benefit of the study of history is to dispel the illusion that people living now are significantly different from people who lived in earlier times.
I concede that basic human nature has not changed over recorded history, and that coming to appreciate this fact by studying history can be beneficial in how we live as a society. However, I disagree with the statement in two respects. First, in other ways there are marked differences between people of different time periods, and learning about those differences can be just as beneficial. Second, studying history carries other equally important benefits as well.
I agree with the statement insofar as through the earnest study of human history we learn that basic human nature---our desires an...
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 828, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...d appears to be away from reform toward a 'tough-on-crime' approach, to...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'well', 'at least', 'for example', 'for instance', 'sort of', 'as a result', 'as well as', 'to sum up']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.2390625 0.240241500013 100% => OK
Verbs: 0.14375 0.157235817809 91% => OK
Adjectives: 0.103125 0.0880659088768 117% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0484375 0.0497285424764 97% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0546875 0.0444667217837 123% => OK
Prepositions: 0.1265625 0.12292977631 103% => OK
Participles: 0.04375 0.0406280797675 108% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.99028743528 2.79330140395 107% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0265625 0.030933414821 86% => OK
Particles: 0.00625 0.0016655270985 375% => OK
Determiners: 0.053125 0.0997080785238 53% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0078125 0.0249443105267 31% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.009375 0.0148568991511 63% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3610.0 2732.02544248 132% => OK
No of words: 552.0 452.878318584 122% => OK
Chars per words: 6.53985507246 6.0361032391 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84713113593 4.58838876751 106% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.45652173913 0.366273622748 125% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.378623188406 0.280924506359 135% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.264492753623 0.200843997647 132% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.159420289855 0.132149295362 121% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99028743528 2.79330140395 107% => OK
Unique words: 292.0 219.290929204 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528985507246 0.48968727796 108% => OK
Word variations: 65.7024072797 55.4138127331 119% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6194690265 112% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.380412469 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.1674786849 59.4972553346 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 156.956521739 141.124799967 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 23.380412469 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.608695652174 0.674092028746 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 61.8623188406 51.4728631049 120% => OK
Elegance: 1.6582278481 1.64882698954 101% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.29241754694 0.391690518653 75% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0956222833633 0.123202303941 78% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0682954193059 0.077325440228 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.496769211509 0.547984918172 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.124888084055 0.149214159877 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112475269555 0.161403998019 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060411241369 0.0892212321368 68% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.359359477371 0.385218514788 93% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0364079315466 0.0692045440612 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.199320383472 0.275328986314 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0459430002359 0.0653680567796 70% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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