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.
As far as I know there is a famous adage in Persian culture regards the value of the past and its influences on the current and future decisions. It says the past looks like a torch that illuminates the dangerous path ahead of us. In my opinion, people have to study events of the past, the fate of dynasties and the biographies of prominent figures who lived in the past to make wise decisions. The following paragraphs will mention a few examples from different contexts to emphasize the value of the past to decision making process of today.
The practice of writing a research paper is a good example to emphasize on the values of the past for new scientific study. Academically speaking, every enthusiastic student who likes to conduct a study and write a powerful paper knows the principles of scientific research methodologies such as research sampling, experiments and so on. One Of the required principle by most journals to publish a paper is literature review in which scholars have to find relevant studies to their subject and write them in a shortened form to create a comprehensive view in that subject. They also get some insights and avoid a repetitive study by reviewing other works. This little principle therefore shows that knowing about past is useful to conduct a new study and make consequent decisions.
Furthermore, Another benefit of knowing about the past is detrimental effect which it may have on the governments. In other words, the leaders and decision makers of a society always have to take a look back to identify the reasons behind the rise or fall of powers. For example, during Arab spring If colonel Qaddafi, former leader of Libya, was watchful to what happened to his counterparts in other Arab countries in the region, then there was a chance for him to escape from his tragic destiny. Thus, because making new decisions without prior knowledge could be dangerous for leaders, they have to study the history to find possible experiences and take lessons from them.
Finally, After all we have been given an ability to memorize and remember things which is called memory. Despite of its constraints, the memory is designed to help people remember what they did in the past which also includes their experiences, knowledge, skills and so on. This could not be useless since in many situations we need to remember something from the past to fulfill our today’s tasks. For example, the order of alphabet is among the very primary lessons we took at school and may seem so far from our current projects but how about finding meaning of a word in a dictionary when the Internet is not working. You probably need to know the alphabet order you learned in the past to find your desired word. Therefore, knowing about what we learned in the past will be useful in times of need.
In summary, knowing about the past should not be considered as old-fashioned behavior. On the contrary studying the past and perceiving its values could be helpful in many situations such as writing a scholarly paper for a journal or making new decisions for a society. After all having an ability in our heads which is called memory is another fact that indicates we have to know about the past.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 271, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “After” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... or making new decisions for a society. After all having an ability in our heads whic...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, if, look, may, so, then, therefore, thus, after all, for example, in summary, such as, in my opinion, in other words, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 106.0 58.6224719101 181% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 12.9106741573 8% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2674.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 555.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81801801802 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85370353223 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65950096406 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493693693694 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 842.4 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.9947698597 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.545454545 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2272727273 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.54545454545 5.21951772744 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232207511921 0.243740707755 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0711303929203 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0496312355984 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131318717212 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.039866107901 0.0667264976115 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 100.480337079 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => 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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