Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Knowledge about the past does not guarantee an outcome when applied to today's decisions. However, such knowledge informs people to make smarter decisions.
People who accede that knowledge about the past cannot help make today's decisions would argue that every situation is unique, and therefore, a successful decision in the past cannot be applied to achieve the same today. Take for example, the movement of stock prices. One cannot make decisions about the future from past behavior with certainty. In such a case, one cannot guarantee that a decision made today based on Company A's previous stock prices will be successful. However, many believe that being informed of past behavior will help them make smarter decisions.
We learn history to learn from past mistakes to make better decisions today. Granted, we will not be faced with the exact same circumstances today. However, today's quagmire will parallel at least one instance from the past. For example, take the case of the nuclear bombings that ended World War II. Because humanity observed the atrocities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the cataclysm effected by nuclear weapons, not only those in power but all of humanity knows we must take heed in deciding to employ such weapons in the future. Knowledge of what happened in the past is informing people to be more careful in making decisions.
Previous records of natural disasters help us to make more informed decisions today. Hurricane Sandy was a destructive force that wiped out a part of the nation, leaving many to despair. Speculators claim, however, that the extent of the damages would have been lessened if smarter measures were taken. Recently, in preparing for Storm Hercules, the government based its decisions on Sandy to be smarter in facing a forthcoming natural disaster of similar scale.
Even intuitive decisions are informed by knowledge formed in and of the past--a bestselling author, Malcolm Gladwell, claims in his book "Blink". Gladwell explicates that those successful decisions that were made in a blink of a second are actually a product of years, often decades, of experience. A head firefighter shouts at his crew to leave the burning house and a moment later, the whole house crumbles down. During an interview afterwards, the firefighter recalls that his decision was intuitive. He had not deliberated his decision. However, Gladwell proves that it was his years of experience as a firefighter that helped him at once to gather up knowledge of past experiences to quickly--although subconsciously--make a smart decision.
Although gainsayers may claim that past knowledge cannot guarantee the outcome of current decisions, learning from the past will veritably inform us to make smarter decisions. Knowledge about the past does not guarantee an outcome when applied to today's decisions. However, such knowledge informs people to make smarter decisions.
People who accede that knowledge about the past cannot help make today's decisions would argue that every situation is unique, and therefore, a successful decision in the past cannot be applied to achieve the same today. Take for example, the movement of stock prices. One cannot make decisions about the future from past behavior with certainty. In such a case, one cannot guarantee that a decision made today based on Company A's previous stock prices will be successful. However, many believe that being informed of past behavior will help them make smarter decisions.
We learn history to learn from past mistakes to make better decisions today. Granted, we will not be faced with the exact same circumstances today. However, today's quagmire will parallel at least one instance from the past. For example, take the case of the nuclear bombings that ended World War II. Because humanity observed the atrocities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the cataclysm effected by nuclear weapons, not only those in power but all of humanity knows we must take heed in deciding to employ such weapons in the future. Knowledge of what happened in the past is informing people to be more careful in making decisions.
Previous records of natural disasters help us to make more informed decisions today. Hurricane Sandy was a destructive force that wiped out a part of the nation, leaving many to despair. Speculators claim, however, that the extent of the damages would have been lessened if smarter measures were taken. Recently, in preparing for Storm Hercules, the government based its decisions on Sandy to be smarter in facing a forthcoming natural disaster of similar scale.
Even intuitive decisions are informed by knowledge formed in and of the past--a bestselling author, Malcolm Gladwell, claims in his book "Blink". Gladwell explicates that those successful decisions that were made in a blink of a second are actually a product of years, often decades, of experience. A head firefighter shouts at his crew to leave the burning house and a moment later, the whole house crumbles down. During an interview afterwards, the firefighter recalls that his decision was intuitive. He had not deliberated his decision. However, Gladwell proves that it was his years of experience as a firefighter that helped him at once to gather up knowledge of past experiences to quickly--although subconsciously--make a smart decision.
Although gainsayers may claim that past knowledge cannot guarantee the outcome of current decisions, learning from the past will veritably inform us to make smarter decisions.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, may, second, therefore, well, at least, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 28.0 12.4196629213 225% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 30.0 11.3162921348 265% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 60.0 33.0505617978 182% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 150.0 58.6224719101 256% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4682.0 2235.4752809 209% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 880.0 442.535393258 199% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32045454545 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.44653963066 4.55969084622 119% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87504850839 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.254545454545 0.4932671777 52% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1456.2 704.065955056 207% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 48.0 20.2370786517 237% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 52.2556316742 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.5416666667 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3333333333 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.64583333333 5.21951772744 32% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 11.0 4.97078651685 221% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 12.0 7.80617977528 154% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 28.0 10.2758426966 272% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.195157331812 0.243740707755 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0623800350655 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0492443831777 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111828575043 0.150359130593 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0602445949182 0.0667264976115 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.68 8.38706741573 80% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 100.480337079 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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