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.
Talking about history, what comes to our minds is the human struggle from being a cave dweller to landing on moon. The plethora of famous battles, icons and leaders who shaped the future of the mankind. But, if we have been progressing, as we see from our history, then how justified is to make a statement comparing the people living now are those who lived earlier?
The study of history shows us that we have constantly improved from what we were before. In all domain of life, from science, technology, society and economics we have invented solutions that has made our lives simpler. For example, the invention of wheel made transportation possible. Which, in long term lead to an increase in mobility, trade, exchange of culture and values possible. The history shows that life expectancy was low and innovation in medicine has changed that. Studying history once can see that lives are different than the way they were before. However, living is not only about living with comfort and for 100 years. We must analyze the argument further to understand if the difference is actually real.
Comparing living in a cave to living in a penthouse, it would be unanimous answer as to which one is better. The history shows us that the people who live earlier were driven by the similar forces that drive us now. The wars, that were fought between nations over resources are still there. They were fought for right to own the salves then, and now on the right to acquire natural resources. Barbaric rulers massacred millions to impose their ideology on them. Religious fanatics do the same in present time. There does not seem to be much difference when we compare these.
Coming to advent of science and technology, the main reason for invention of machines was to make work simpler for us. The ultimate objective being to provide a comfortable life to people. But are we content and happy with the comfort we have? How is the greed for a bigger and warmer cave any different for a bigger and expensive mobile phone? The truth being that the needs of the people are still the same; food, shelter and clothing. Whereas, the wants have increased manifolds.
The history shows us a diaspora of events that happened over a period of time. And when we compare the wants of to present day with that of the earlier days we see a lot of change. But, on further probing we do see that the needs have always remained the same for us. Therefore, I'd agree to some extent that the study of History does provide evidence to dispel the illusion that people are living a significantly better lives than they lived before.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
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...l the same; food, shelter and clothing. Whereas, the wants have increased manifolds. ...
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Suggestion: period
...diaspora of events that happened over a period of time. And when we compare the wants of to pr...
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Suggestion: I'd
...ys remained the same for us. Therefore, Id agree to some extent that the study of ...
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Message: The proper name in singular (Id) must be used with a third-person verb: 'agrees'.
Suggestion: agrees
...remained the same for us. Therefore, Id agree to some extent that the study of Histor...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'therefore', 'well', 'whereas', 'as to', 'for example', 'talking about']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.226824457594 0.240241500013 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.179487179487 0.157235817809 114% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0631163708087 0.0880659088768 72% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0473372781065 0.0497285424764 95% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0532544378698 0.0444667217837 120% => OK
Prepositions: 0.122287968442 0.12292977631 99% => OK
Participles: 0.0512820512821 0.0406280797675 126% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.41054245315 2.79330140395 86% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0355029585799 0.030933414821 115% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.104536489152 0.0997080785238 105% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00591715976331 0.0249443105267 24% => Some modal verbs wanted.
WH_determiners: 0.0276134122288 0.0148568991511 186% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2615.0 2732.02544248 96% => OK
No of words: 457.0 452.878318584 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.72210065646 6.0361032391 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.58838876751 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.332603938731 0.366273622748 91% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.240700218818 0.280924506359 86% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.148796498906 0.200843997647 74% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0809628008753 0.132149295362 61% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41054245315 2.79330140395 86% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 219.290929204 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505470459519 0.48968727796 103% => OK
Word variations: 57.9895884138 55.4138127331 105% => OK
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6194690265 136% => OK
Sentence length: 16.3214285714 23.380412469 70% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.4282989592 59.4972553346 51% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.3928571429 141.124799967 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3214285714 23.380412469 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.464285714286 0.674092028746 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.21349557522 96% => OK
Readability: 40.3914504533 51.4728631049 78% => OK
Elegance: 1.42957746479 1.64882698954 87% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.570478413997 0.391690518653 146% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0848972420416 0.123202303941 69% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0650500334763 0.077325440228 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.45708012236 0.547984918172 83% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.124928131538 0.149214159877 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.193177746218 0.161403998019 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0954379318649 0.0892212321368 107% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.402065892685 0.385218514788 104% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0651348806844 0.0692045440612 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.402821066744 0.275328986314 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0358705305516 0.0653680567796 55% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.4325221239 125% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88274336283 184% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 10.0 7.22455752212 138% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 13.5995575221 125% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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