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. 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
This topic raises a controversial issue of whether knowing about the past would have a significant effect on the decisions people make today since the world is more complex that it was in the relatively recent past. Indisputably, change they say, is a constant process. We undergo changes at every point in our lives. Nevertheless, these changes can be occurrent, multiple times, at different stages of life. Thus, i generally disagree with the opinion that knowing about the past cannot help make important decisions today because of the complexity of the present and would argue that the past is more involved in making present day decisions even with its complexity.
First of all, experience they say, is the best teacher. I would like to point out that going through an obstacle once, would help you understand that situation better than you did at first. To illustrate, let's look at scientists. If scientists do not go through works done by experts in the past, science would be less viable than it is now. Scientist of the present, have modified and verified most of their researches by looking through past scientists works, thereby finding loopholes in theirs and correcting them to give us the science we all know now. Imagine if Graham bell had not invented the first telephone, we would not have the smartphones we have today because a prototype wouldn't have existed which would have affected us today. In this circumstance, obviously, without previous works to fall back on, we would have more problems than we had in the past. Consequently, it is pretty obvious that knowledge of the past, greatly influence important decisions of the present.
Furthermore, If the knowledge of the past cannot help with decision making today,then we would be like sheep without a shephard leading us because we would be elusive about how those before us faced circumastances that arose during their time. For example, Paleoecology which is the study of vegetation and biodiversity of the past, helps us understand how the vegetation of the past was, the changes they went through, how they reacted to these changes, how these changes are affecting the vegetation of the present and even how the vegetation of the future would be. So understanding the past, gives us an insight on the present and even how the future would be. Both common sense and personal experiences have told us that the decisions today, we make affects our future, what if the future they talked about is now? Hence, all the evidences above demonstrates that, the past affects our decisions even more than we know.
Admittedly, the present is a standard on its own and shorld not be dependent on any factor. This is true especially when it comes to the bible where it says,"Old things are past away, Behold all things have become new".In addition, there are some experience in life that occur only once and after that it doesn't happen again, that is, these decisions are once in a lifetime. However, the above argument does not constitute a sufficient support to claim that the present is independent on knowledge of the past.
In conclusion, although, the topic claims that the past cannot affect decision making in present time due to its complexity, this is flawed and does not hold water. As long as some measurements are performed, or some areas are involved, knowledge of the past can help people to make important decisions today even with the complexity of the present.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, nevertheless, so, then, thus, for example, in addition, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 65.0 33.0505617978 197% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 91.0 58.6224719101 155% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2887.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 582.0 442.535393258 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96048109966 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.91168771031 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70940407529 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 215.323595506 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46735395189 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 887.4 704.065955056 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.9120487126 60.3974514979 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.52173913 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3043478261 23.4991977007 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.21739130435 5.21951772744 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.83258426966 248% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.321366861648 0.243740707755 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0946006799932 0.0831039109588 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0952317007935 0.0758088955206 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197317883938 0.150359130593 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0934111805498 0.0667264976115 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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