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.

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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.

Ans: To make important decisions in life, the first and most prior thing that we need to do is weigh the pros and cons of the situation regarding which we are making the decision. In order to do so, we have to have some inkling or knowledge of the past if that is possible. Today, the new age might have evolved with a great variance from the past, and situations that arise in our day to day life might not be similar with the ones in past, but I refuse to ackonwledge that dissimilarity of events between different time gaps has as much of a major impact as the claim suggests. To make decisions, it is not always necessaery that there should be a connection evident between situations that we have faced previously and situations that we haven't encountered before.

I disagree with the suggestion because people learn new things everyday with time, and time is not constant. In most of our lives, we are faced with a new and different incident that we have not experienced earlier every new day, and yet we learn and store the lessons from what we have faced because they have taught us a novel aspect of any sort of situation. Scientists making new discoveries do not always approach a substance or subject from a predecessor's point of view. When Alexandar Fleming discovered penicillin, he did not know about its effects on bacteria from any great scientists before him. But does it imply that when he initially started studying about bactreria, he did not learn from the scientific revelations that those said scientists had made in that field? When Mark Zuckerburg created Facebook, he did not decide to make the website that is so popular today based on any connection from any previous discoveries relating to it, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he had not applied any feature in his creation which is absolutely irrelevant to what he learned from past, maybe as a child.

With respect to our daily lives' happenings, it is somewhat true that we sometimes have to distance ourselves from the past experiences, in order to see through things in a new light, so that we can exercise an absolute new idea to a theory, to change the orthodox perspectives regarding the matter. However, to distinguish between past and present occurences and to completely disregard past experiences, claiming that they are completely valueless are very different, and I find choosing to follow the latter path as an unwise choice.

I conclude that no matter whatever the situation is that we experience and shove it in the back of our experiences, even if it will not have any cxonnection to any future cases that are upcoming, we should always learn from them. Because to make a decision, it is not mandatory for situations to be connected, but the knowledge regarding the issue we have faced is, as factors of knowledge are not always directly proportional to each other.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 228, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...r to do so, we have to have some inkling or knowledge of the past if that is poss...
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Line 1, column 435, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the past'?
Suggestion: in the past
...life might not be similar with the ones in past, but I refuse to ackonwledge that dissi...
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Line 1, column 743, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
...faced previously and situations that we havent encountered before. I disagree wit...
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Line 5, column 64, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...gestion because people learn new things everyday with time, and time is not constant. In...
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Line 5, column 183, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d with a new and different incident that we have not experienced earlier every ne...
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Line 5, column 965, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...us discoveries relating to it, but that doesnt necessarily mean that he had not applie...
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Line 11, column 119, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
...mes have to distance ourselves from the past experiences, in order to see through things in a ne...
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Line 11, column 388, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
... occurences and to completely disregard past experiences, claiming that they are completely valu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, regarding, so, sort of, with respect to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 25.0 11.3162921348 221% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 64.0 33.0505617978 194% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2390.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 498.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79919678715 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74085719963 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483935742972 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 753.3 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => 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: 35.0 23.0359550562 152% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.2345977978 60.3974514979 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 170.714285714 118.986275619 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 35.5714285714 23.4991977007 151% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.92857142857 5.21951772744 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.339099041456 0.243740707755 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118295758034 0.0831039109588 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0573048236154 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206254546831 0.150359130593 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0837929792733 0.0667264976115 126% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.0 14.1392134831 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.41 48.8420337079 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.1743820225 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 11.8971910112 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.0 11.2143820225 143% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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