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.
A Chinese old saying states that history enables us to learn from the past, and predicts for the future, which indicates the importance of understanding history. However, the claim suggests that understanding about history cannot help people make decisions today, because there is some distance from past to now. I mostly disagree with the claim due to the following reasons.
First, people have learned from history in the field of politic and international relationship. To be specific, the world where we live now advocates the importance of peace between countries. In the past decades, it was easily to issue international war. Perhaps that a country wants to showoff its own excellence of developing weapons, or maybe one country envy other's natural resource. However, wars do hurt people and environment. For example, the starving children did not go to school, instead they wandered in the field to search for their next meal. Or the widows expected family gathering, however, she cried every night since she lost her husband and sons during the war. History proved that the war is harmful to human being. Thus, governments in every country tend to communicate with others rather than abuse the violence.
Admittedly, the situation from past to now should be different, people should not make all of the decisions based on history. Take an historical event from ancient China as example. Once upon the time, there was a huge mountain block the traffic between villages. The locals had to climb on the mountain for a day for accessing the neighbor village. And one day, an innocent man decided to remove the mountain by digging its soil daily. Hence, he asked all of the neighbors to participate the mountain digging routine. In the end, the mountain became a ground, then transportation issue was perfectly solved. However, we are now in the world full of automotive tools, this kind of history is not suitable for us. In other words, it depends on different circumstances to decide whether we should learn from historic event.
In conclusion, I disagree that the history is useless for decision making since the knowledge from the ancient deserves us to reference. And people need to judge whether it is suitable for duplicating the same action from the past before making decisions.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, however, if, may, so, then, thus, for example, in conclusion, kind of, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1929.0 2235.4752809 86% => OK
No of words: 379.0 442.535393258 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08970976253 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68746947618 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.572559366755 0.4932671777 116% => OK
syllable_count: 593.1 704.065955056 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.8514337444 60.3974514979 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 83.8695652174 118.986275619 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4782608696 23.4991977007 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.30434782609 5.21951772744 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.24142136058 0.243740707755 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0625161327255 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0800390280729 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159666464908 0.150359130593 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.074045203547 0.0667264976115 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.8420337079 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 100.480337079 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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