Claim: Though often considered an objective pursuit, learning about the historical past requires creativity.
Reason: Because we can never know the past directly, we must reconstruct it by imaginatively interpreting historical accounts, documents, and artifacts.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which the claim is based.
The modern world would make the understanding of the past events more difficult because many aspects of life have changed in the course of history. Therefore, it is correct that learning about historical past, in some cases, require imagination and creativity.
We can think about the past happenings that we had witnessed them in our lives. We can remember them sometimes in details and speak about them. However, the historical events that we have never had the chance of experiencing them would be difficult to imagine. Therefore, by using of the documents and artifacts that are gathered by the archeologists, we could have a better imagination about the historical event. Apparently, we use our creativity in imagining those historical pasts. That is why people go to the museums to watch the evidence and artifacts found in the historical sites. In this way, they can have a better and clearer thinking about the people that lived in those time, using those artifacts.
Nowadays, we have used numerous technological devices such as cellphones and digital cameras, in our normal life. It would be hard to imagine that how people in the past had been living without these technological devices. When a history professor shows a picture of a very old telegraph device belongs to 200 years ago, he uses his creativity to explain his students that how people in those days had contacted with each other’s. The students should use their imaginations to understand this concept. All of these uses of creativity and imaginations are due to the lack of our direct knowledge about the historical pasts.
When listening to the stories and experiences that our grandparents tell us about their past lives, we use our creativity to imagine their lives in that time. We create an imaginary life in our mind, imagine our grandparents walking in those old houses and playing with their siblings. There is no other way, but just imagination.
In conclusion, in reconstructing the past events that we had not seen them, we should use our creativity and imagination when watching the documents and artifacts from those times. We just can interpret what happened because we do not have direct understanding of them.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, however, if, so, therefore, in conclusion, such as, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.5258426966 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 60.0 33.0505617978 182% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1845.0 2235.4752809 83% => OK
No of words: 365.0 442.535393258 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05479452055 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37092360658 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85624815093 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 215.323595506 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.484931506849 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 585.9 704.065955056 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.7812895015 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.1052631579 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2105263158 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.31578947368 5.21951772744 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.336343036821 0.243740707755 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123994495179 0.0831039109588 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0816282160951 0.0758088955206 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.211084483097 0.150359130593 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0788165337893 0.0667264976115 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.1392134831 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 100.480337079 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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.