The main benefit of the study of history is to dispel the illusion that people living now are significantly different from people who lived in earlier times.
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.
According to the author, the principal advantage we can take from history is to free us from the false belief that people living now are different from people living in the past.
Of course, it would be pleasant if history permitted us to learn that there are more analogies than differences between the current world and past world. First, in this way we could effectively predict events. If we knew that people under Fascism were very similar to people living now, we are more likely to avoid a return of a fascist system. Second, if history has the function of make us near to the past, there would not be certain viewpoint according to which we are superior than people who lived in the past. For example, if, after all, Middle Age’s people were extremely similar to us, we could consider them as inferior – as happens (the label “Middle Age’s” itself indicates the inferiority of the period to which it refers).
However, we cannot take such advantages from history. The assumption made by the author is that we are similar to people who lived in the past – only in this way, studying history reveals the analogies between the contemporary world and the past. This, however, is extremely questionable. Really, is a Middle Age’s person similar to us? Many of us may answer negatively. There are a plethora of differences that we can point out. For example, Middle Age’s people were extremely religious while the number of religious people is decreasing. Middle Age’s people lived under monarchy, while most of us are citizens of democratic states. Middle Age’s people were mostly illiterate while a great number of people, at least in the Western World, go to school until 16/18 years old.
The real benefit we can take from history is learning the origin of the current world. Moreover, if we are aware of the history we have and where we come from a certain world, we surely have a more complex view of the world we live in. Why is there an agreement between the government and Church in Italy? Why does Italy host a phenomenon such as mafia? These are questions that could be answered only by looking back at Italy’s past.
In conclusion, the author’s idea is not convincing, although it hides good purposes. We are not similar to people who lived before us and this fact prevents history from freeing us from the belief that our world is different from the past. The primary advantage of studying history is learning the origin of our world.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 483, Rule ID: SUPERIOR_THAN[1]
Message: The adjective superior is normally used with 'to'.
Suggestion: to
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Line 3, column 503, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, look, may, moreover, really, second, so, while, after all, at least, for example, in conclusion, of course, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 14.8657303371 34% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2077.0 2235.4752809 93% => OK
No of words: 429.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84149184149 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61719975738 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 215.323595506 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.452214452214 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 658.8 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 55.3774469049 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.3043478261 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.652173913 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.86956521739 5.21951772744 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20174554372 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0649937043691 0.0831039109588 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.072454385229 0.0758088955206 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1564766193 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0679318386559 0.0667264976115 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.1639044944 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.55 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 100.480337079 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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