14. Claim: Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today. Reason: The world today is significantly more complex than it was even in the relatively recent past.
The claim presented contends that it is superfluous to have knowledge of the past while making decisions in the present because the world we live in today is much more complex than what it was. In my opinion, I mostly disagree with this claim, and argue that it is indeed of extreme importance to accrue knowledge about the past to make cogent decisions for two reasons.
To begin, there have been major technological advancements in the 21st century. Consequently, the world we live in today has become exceedingly complex than the one our ancestors lived in. However, these developments have only become possible by learning from the fallacies of past developments. The progress in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, robotics, Cyber security , et al have been possible by learning from the past findings and scientific experiments.
Data scientists, machine learning experts, economists also traders use prediction analysis techniques to predict the future gains and losses to the company as well as the stock market. Such analysis is possible only by assessing the past trends. For instance, gaining knowledge about the Great Recession of 2007 that lasted through 2009 and by identifying its causes, economists can now look for signs in the current economy that might snowball into causing another recession in the future, and pre-emptively act to prevent it. The above examples, illustrate the need for historical knowledge for taking sound important decisions in the present.
In contrast to the arguments stated above, it is true up to a certain extent that having knowledge about the past does not always aid today’s decision making process. For instance, the learnings of a President who, in his term, had to combat terrorism more than the economical fluctuations of the country, are not going to be of much help to his successor who is battling a serious economic crisis. However, this does not mean that having knowledge about the different tactics to counter terrorism will not be useful in the future. Having knowledge about the past is always beneficial because only if we are familiar with the past can we better prepare ourselves for the future.
In conclusion, for evolution and progress to take place, it is important to learn from the mistakes of the past. Past knowledge helps us not make the same mistakes again and gives a definite direction of advancement.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, however, if, look, so, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast, as well as, in contrast to, in my opinion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 14.8657303371 47% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2008.0 2235.4752809 90% => OK
No of words: 390.0 442.535393258 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14871794872 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44391917772 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80110820583 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548717948718 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 621.0 704.065955056 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.8892599253 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.5 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.375 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.4375 5.21951772744 181% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266941745437 0.243740707755 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0913981142022 0.0831039109588 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.078846423277 0.0758088955206 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163506107248 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0942513590487 0.0667264976115 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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
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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.