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

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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.

What is the main advantage of reading history and how people can take advantages of history? Some people claim that we can find out that people are living now are completely different life from our descendants. However, I think reading history could have more advantages as just find out differences. Thus, I strongly disagree with the proposed claim.
First of all, the most benefit of reading history, I think, is understanding the political issue of bygone kingdoms. By scrutinezing history, people could find the main reasons of thrive or fiasco of a country or kingdom. For example, historian could precisely describe the reasons that empire Iran defeated by Arabs in the appearance of Islam and explain why Iranian with arranged army could not pulled back rudimentary Arab's army. By understanding such information, people could achieve valuable insight that could be useful for modern political decisions.
Moreover, apart from political issue, cultural and social concerns could be considered. Historian could present valuable information about culture of our descendants and accordingly, we can find out the reasons of recent traditions. Therefore, we can conclude that these traditions have benefits for modern life or it is just for special condition in the past and it is not reasonable for modern life. For instance, Iranian had some traditions that force the groom to pay money to girl's father for wedding with a girl. It seems, the main reason of this custom was to find out that sons were determined for marriage. However, by finding out the main reason of this custom, people may decide to remove this tradition from their modern life.
On the other hand, some people believe, the aforementioned benefits could achieve without understanding history. For example, modern political science provides wide insight about governing a country and reading history is not necessary. Likewise for cultural and social issue, for instance by evaluating benefits of common traditions by experts, they can provide efficient information about advantages and disadvantages of each tradition for people. Although the reasons that opposers maintain look cogent at first glance, the principal of these knowledge that they have mentioned is history, at least partly even not completely. So, their reasons could not be persuasive.
In conclusion, I believe, the benefits of reading history is much more than just dispelling the illusion of difference between modern people and their descendants. For example, we can name political, cultural and social issues.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 61, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...st benefit of reading history, I think, is understanding the political issue of bygone kingdoms....
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Line 2, column 397, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'pull'
Suggestion: pull
...hy Iranian with arranged army could not pulled back rudimentary Arabs army. By underst...
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Line 4, column 237, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Likewise,
...y and reading history is not necessary. Likewise for cultural and social issue, for inst...
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Line 4, column 540, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this knowledge' or 'these knowledges'?
Suggestion: this knowledge; these knowledges
...ogent at first glance, the principal of these knowledge that they have mentioned is history, at...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, first, however, if, likewise, look, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, apart from, as to, at least, for example, for instance, i think, in conclusion, first of all, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2158.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 401.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38154613466 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79229817956 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.493765586035 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 673.2 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.1511947293 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.761904762 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0952380952 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 5.21951772744 179% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => 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: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134235007203 0.243740707755 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0501841856825 0.0831039109588 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0569601484697 0.0758088955206 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0980923826909 0.150359130593 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0607028434984 0.0667264976115 91% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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