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.
As the old saying ‘History always repeats itself’, I generally agree that the benefit of history study is to point out the similar patterns between the past and present, so that people can learn from the past and avoid the same mistakes again. However, it is equally important to note that with technological disruptions, certain fields do differ from the past, so we should learn but not limit ourselves from history.
To begin with, it is never rare to see revolutions from the past to nowadays, which indicates people still live under unequal and violent conditions as before, no matter how much self-claimed improvement we have achieved. Revolutions illustrate the eternal quality of human beings to seek for better lives and we do experience and memorize the importance of protecting people from discriminations in light of the slave history in the US or other western countries, as well as the dictatorship in North Korea and China. Therefore, by studying history, we are constantly reminded of the bloody wars that are against the well being of the mass, and learn the duty to keep them from happening since they will not disappear due to human’s similarity in fighting for resources and power.
Furthermore, just like what is mentioned above, lots of human behaviors and characters, such as fighting for power and dominance, don’t really evolve along with the time, so it is meaningful and imperative to learn from history and avoid the same mistakes. In other words, because we believe that history reveals the core of a society which lasts over decades, learning from history becomes possible and effective. For example, Taiwan has done brilliant jobs in controlling the outbreak of Coronavirus due to the lesson learnt from the SARS in 2017. It perfectly shows that by assuming that the past and the future share certain similarities, we do learn from the mistakes before and become better in the future.
History does teach us numerous lessons, however, several aspects of the society do change in response to the technological disruptions. Nowadays, we are super connected with the whole world thanks to the development of infotech, which leads to both positive and negative outcomes. For instance, social network apps, such as facebook and instagram are common but definitely not mentioned from history. Therefore, it is premature to assume everything is the same compared to the long past history. What’s more important is to cultivate the ability to identify what should be remembered and learnt from history, while what else should be open to innovation.
In conclusion, it is always beneficial to learn from history, but at the same time, we should keep in mind that the world is able to advance better even if the topic is not recorded from history.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, really, so, still, therefore, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as well as, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2334.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 459.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08496732026 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62863751936 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74716697633 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529411764706 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 731.7 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 23.0359550562 130% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.0769604347 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.6 118.986275619 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.6 23.4991977007 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0666666667 5.21951772744 212% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175951213927 0.243740707755 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0598924044042 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0426147853693 0.0758088955206 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101146842607 0.150359130593 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0385385431137 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 14.1392134831 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 48.8420337079 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.78 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.15 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 11.8971910112 151% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.2143820225 125% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.7820224719 153% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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