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.
The action of our past lays the foundation for our choices today and even to our decisions in the future. To know about the past is to be able to comprehend the consequences of choices we made then and hence, to be able to apply them as necessary in the present. The prompt suggests that the past is not important for our decision making in the present. I mostly disagree with the prompt and contend that knowing and understanding about the past can help people to make important decisions today as delineated follows.
To begin with, we should learn about our past for our mistakes, if not for the progress we have made. If we can deduce what mistakes we made in the future, we are more likely to avoid such actions and consequently, devise a better decision today. For example, during the second world war, Winston Churchill, the then prime minister of the United Kingdom, analyzed his field experience from the first world war to come up with plans to get the upper hand in the war. What he learnt from the first world war, the mistakes he made and the choices he made, certainly affected the decision he made later in the following war. This transformed the outcome of the war in favor of the United Kingdom and in many ways, helped shape the world as it is today. So, knowing about the past certainly allowed Churchill to make better decisions today.
Moreover, Knowing and understanding about our past is an inseparable part of our history, our personality and our thought process. For example, If the people in Europe were oblivious about the past, the Holocaust and the reason why and how the war started then the population might share a distorted view of the past which will certainly affect their decision making. Whereas, knowing about them, has made them aware about the horrors of war and they will certainly work towards preventing decisions leading to war and hatred. The past has made them prudent and that can be seen in their cognizance of consequences of their decisions. Hence, knowing about the past helps people make important decisions today.
However, if the present situation is such that the past knowledge has no bearing on the current state then knowing the past might not be much. For example, if a decision is to be made about the use of a nascent invention with no history whatsoever then the past cannot provide us with guidance for our next step. The past might have pros and cons for a similar case, but for unprecedented events it might not be much help. In such cases, it might be more beneficial to look into the future and decide based on how such an invention might be used. So, knowing the past might not seem beneficial all the time.
The past can certainly have significant effect on our decision making for the better or the worst. However, from the above discussion it becomes clear that the past can work more towards our favor in making the world a better place. While, sometimes past events might not seem much relevant in the present scenario, it will certainly help in guiding us in a better direction.
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, look, moreover, second, so, then, whereas, while, for example, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2527.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 540.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.67962962963 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82057051367 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43411045148 2.79657885939 87% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 215.323595506 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.407407407407 0.4932671777 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 774.0 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => 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: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.3855037952 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.869565217 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4782608696 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.30434782609 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227207175623 0.243740707755 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0934889806344 0.0831039109588 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0797181955407 0.0758088955206 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148156545256 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.051692890998 0.0667264976115 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 48.8420337079 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.16 12.1639044944 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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