Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
There is no doubt that nowadays, the courses which students take at the university have a significant role in their future and no one could deny this fact. However, there has always been a controversy among people whether taking specific courses should be mandatory or not. A vast majority of people are of the opinion that students should not be required to take classes like history. I, contrary to the popular belief, contend that students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is. In the following paragraphs, I will delve into the most conspicuous reasons and examples.
One of the reasons coming to mind at first is that history is one of the most fundamental subjects that every person should have moderate knowledge. Furthermore, knowing about such matters makes that person more knowledgeable and makes him seem more professional in whatever job he has. In my opinion, people who only pay attention to their field of expertise and do not care about other matters are making a big mistake. Subjects such as history, are a must-know for all of the people. Consider an Iranian doctor who has no idea who Cyrus the Great was or what the Torkamanchai Treaty was about. If a discussion comes up between him and his patients about one of these matters and he confesses he has no idea about it, the patients will think less highly of him. They might think if he does not know about such a simple subject, god knows what he does not know about in his profession.
Another equally noteworthy reason supporting my opinion is that history has so many valuable lessons that can be used by people in contemporary times. It is a proven fact that life is just like a cycle which repeats itself. Although the shape and form of the problems and situations have changed in modern times, the nature of the issues is the same. Paying attention to historical events helps people broaden their perspective and helps them better handle the predicaments they face. If you take a look at the problems of before and today, you will soon discover that many of them were and are about matters such as power and money in large and small scales. The measures that people take today can be based on the same strategies that people in the past have used, even in different forms and shapes.
The last but not the least reason is that empirical studies have shown that successful people have a vast knowledge of history. A study was conducted at Oxford University in 2011, which I had actually read about in Forbes yesterday. A series of historical questions were asked from a hundred successful politicians and entrepreneurs. The results showed that about 92 percents of them answered about 80 percent of the historical questions right. Furthermore, most of them stated that they had passed a history course during the college years. So, it is wise to consider this factor as an influential parameter in their success. I presume most of the students want to be powerful and likely world leaders in the future, so it is better for them to pass this course.
To wrap it up, all the aforementioned reasons and examples lead us to the conclusion that studying history at the university is necessary for all students. However, that was a story in a nutshell. Actually, there are more reasons and examples elaborating on this idea which are not mentioned above due to the shortage of time. Finally, it is suggested that students take history classes at the university, no matter how irrelevant it might seem to their field of study.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, look, so, no doubt, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 15.1003584229 212% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 13.8261648746 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 11.0286738351 236% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 64.0 43.0788530466 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 81.0 52.1666666667 155% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2940.0 1977.66487455 149% => OK
No of words: 616.0 407.700716846 151% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.77272727273 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.98190197535 4.48103885553 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59260108148 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 295.0 212.727598566 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478896103896 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 927.0 618.680645161 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6003584229 141% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.6154468951 48.9658058833 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.379310345 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2413793103 20.6045352989 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.41379310345 5.45110844103 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.314400447517 0.236089414692 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0771162511471 0.076458572812 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0890865783127 0.0737576698707 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186640422052 0.150856017488 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.124372233451 0.0645574589148 193% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 86.8835125448 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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