The chief benefit of the study of history is to break down the illusion that people in one period of time are significantly different from people who lived at any other time in history.
The author claims that the main advantage of studying history is to remind people that our society is not different from the past. In my view, although there are many events today are similar to the past, however, the author overly generalizes it and ignores other aspects of history.
I concede that many aspects of human beings perpetuate to modern society from the past. There are a wide range of foibles and vulnerabilities that coexist in contemporary world and the ancient time can be identified. For example, humans are greedy, which is the root cause of disasters. As we can see in the human history, looting and wars reoccur in every generation, and there is no exception of our age.
However, by comparing today’s society with the history, we are able to highlight a lot of improvements that we humans today surpass previous generation, from individual to the international scope. In the ancient time, there exist a lot of prejudices, that is, woman faced discriminations, low social status, and other unfair treatments. Nowadays, social groups have changed greatly: females now enjoy more rights and more job opportunities, also, people now, to large extent, recognize woman are no different with men, and thus treating each other equally. In the global scale, many institutes and organizations are established, helping human not to recidivate our faults in the past. For example, the Union Nation founded after world war commit to stop the invasion and warship of countries. World health organization takes responsibility to stop pandemic in the global world, which is one of scourges in human history.
Furthermore, we cannot ignore other things that the history brings to us. History helps us find our roots, remind us where we came from. The history of linguistic helps us trace back to the source of our languages, know how they connect with each other and how they evolve over time. The history of a nation remind citizen how their ancestors establish their countries and what are their values. Without the history, we are merely a flower without roots, floated on shaky bases.
To sum up, history events do recur again and again, due to foibles that we humans possess. However, it is too assertive to claim it the only goal and benefit of history. Excepting it, we can find the disparity between today and the past, and we did made a lot of progresses. Also, other purposes that history serve need to be take into account.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 196, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...it of history. Excepting it, we can find the disparity between today and the past...
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Line 9, column 251, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'did' requires the base form of the verb: 'make'
Suggestion: make
... between today and the past, and we did made a lot of progresses. Also, other purpos...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, however, if, so, thus, for example, in my view, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2044.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 411.0 442.535393258 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97323600973 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68510638436 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52798053528 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 647.1 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.3763474463 60.3974514979 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.3333333333 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5714285714 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.61904761905 5.21951772744 69% => 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 : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174440271724 0.243740707755 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0509575615657 0.0831039109588 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0541897420052 0.0758088955206 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0991351812593 0.150359130593 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.040550485253 0.0667264976115 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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