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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
Knowing about the past helps people understand the situation in-hand more thoroughly and thus results in better decisions. Experience is nothing but the learning from past mistakes and experience is what is demanded in most of the complex situations. Thus one can conclude that knowing about the past is something that helps in taking better decisions today.
To begin with, most of the important decisions are taken only after considering past records be it in business or education or personal life. When it is known that the impact of decision in hand is going to be a vast one, we always consider all the perspectives including past and present as well as future. Take for an example, the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook, although the CEO of both the firms were already friends but only after thoroughly analyzing past performances and popularity of the Messaging service the internet giant decided to own it.
Moreover, previous records are the only footprints that can judge where the next step is going to be. Therefore most of the universities and colleges look back on past performances of candidates before granting them admissions. Same can be observed in industries, where the only thing that matters is your experience and its relevance to your job. Without the existence of past the legitimacy of present is compromised.
However, reasoning that we are not able to make connections between current events and past events until we have some distance from both, does not provide much insights on why one should not consider past records. One can say that future is something that is ever changing and your past experiences shall not hinder you from moving forward in life. The reasoning in itself appears to be flawed.
On the other hand, we might encounter few situations where there is a contradiction between what our experiences suggests and what we might want to do. For example, a kid who got injured after falling from bike might not want to ride the bike again, but on the inside he might feel like getting on the bike again and learn how to ride it properly. There are several circumstances similar to this one in our day to day life, in these kind of situations if taking a decision is difficult, one can always seek help from elders or seniors or friends.
Conclusively, taking a decision without considering the past is like building a sky scrapper without making a solid foundation. Therefore one shall always try to take deep understandings from previous experiences, to be ready to prepare for the worst and hope for the best .
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 252, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...nded in most of the complex situations. Thus one can conclude that knowing about the...
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Line 5, column 103, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...dge where the next step is going to be. Therefore most of the universities and colleges l...
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Line 7, column 156, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...me distance from both, does not provide much insights on why one should not consider...
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Line 7, column 283, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
...omething that is ever changing and your past experiences shall not hinder you from moving forwar...
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Line 9, column 428, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'these kinds'?
Suggestion: this kind; these kinds
... to this one in our day to day life, in these kind of situations if taking a decision is d...
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Line 11, column 129, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...pper without making a solid foundation. Therefore one shall always try to take deep under...
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Line 11, column 273, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...pare for the worst and hope for the best .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, kind of, as well as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 55.5748502994 142% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2139.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 434.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92857142857 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56428161445 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74209031961 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 204.123752495 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520737327189 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 665.1 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.471057884232 425% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.3780125549 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.833333333 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1111111111 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.05555555556 5.70786347227 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.302060801083 0.218282227539 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.090513885816 0.0743258471296 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110333539369 0.0701772020484 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154881178818 0.128457276422 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.125213474326 0.0628817314937 199% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.