Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership

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Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.

Leadership position is very crucial and involves using all the necessary arsenal in other to leave a good mark and be remembered long after the person has left. Even in family, the head of the family must be adequately prepared for tough challenges so that any decision he takes will go a long way in solving the required problems. In doing all this, one must take cognizant of past happening of similar events in order to act on and take a meaningful decision on current happenings.

In Nigeria, the bitter lesson of harsh and cruel military regime in the past has made the present rulers to adjust and make laws in order to prevent such happenings. For instance, in those days of military regime, the Head of State is overtaken with ease by the military thriugh "Coup de tat" that involved blood shed in case the Head of State refused to give in easily and also the killing of top government officials. During the last military regime of General Sanni Abacha, who died on sit. Nigeria has learnt a great lesson and has amended her constitution in such a way that will be difficult for any coup to happen. Also, when Obasanjo becomes the President of Nigeria in 1999, he retired all the miliatry chiefs. He did this to prevent any coup, having once been in that position before and he knew all what they can do. Meaning he learnt from past events to take a decisive decision on present event.

Furthermore, after world war two, there were establishment of many peacemaking organizations such as UNO and others, this is to prevent another war from happening having learnt from the disastrous effect of past wars and what led to them. Ever since then, this unions have been trying their best to settle dispute among nations,curb the production of weapon of mass distruction, all this have made peace return to the planet ever since then even though we still have few civil wars that happened in some countries after then but overall, the significant outputs of this organization have been very effective.

Even in a family, parents must learn from their past mistakes when advising their children so that their wards will not make similar errors.

In conclusion, it is important to ruminate on past events and see if similar or near similar situation has happened before taken any decision as this will enable us to make effective change on cerrent situation.

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Average: 8.7 (2 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: these
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, so, still, then, for instance, in conclusion, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1970.0 2235.4752809 88% => OK
No of words: 411.0 442.535393258 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79318734793 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51524792771 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542579075426 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 626.4 704.065955056 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 77.706833939 60.3974514979 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.714285714 118.986275619 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.3571428571 23.4991977007 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.78571428571 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.102209448065 0.243740707755 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.035533711385 0.0831039109588 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0384896951275 0.0758088955206 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0545787297437 0.150359130593 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0380252623542 0.0667264976115 57% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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