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.
I don’t think the benefits of history can be trivialized to this statement. In fact the benefits of proper reading of history would help someone in understanding how societies had different contexts, how societies subscribed to different values in specific times and which social groups had the power to influence and many more. These things help in understanding at understanding our present. I think that is the main benefit of history. Being able to understand the present and understanding the process of how we as a society arrived at such decisions. Looking at history, one does see a lot of similarities in the present and the past making one feel that we are not significantly different and makes one wonder whether is history repeating itself? This is where a deeper understanding and perspectives matter. History not only helps in understandings that but it can help us further if we go one step ahead. It helps us understand the similarities and also we could learn how a certain problem was dealt then, history helps us to make informed decisions learning from the past. It gives a holistic perspective to the present.
Example: when I look at the current debate of the concept of ‘Nationalism’ in India, I feel in the past as early as 1900s this is was the topic which was discussed among the intellectuals in India. Like now, the intellectuals took hard stand and argued vehemently. Some of the intellectuals have feared arguing about “nationalism” in early 1900s because India was yet to get independence and they feared one identity is needed to unify India, unlike now, where we have more freedom to discuss the concept of nationalism. One can challenge the idea without fearing much consequence because certain liberties and freedom of thought has been guaranteed since then. Understanding the past helps in making the present decisions. In this issue since I am able to appreciate the struggle that my people have gone to gain these liberties I am more tolerant to others views and I am able to understand the importance of having different views
Hence I think the main idea of history is to be able to reflect, understand, appreciate and criticize the present understanding the past. According to me, how we arrived at where we are right now, the context and values that influenced our society are the main benefits of reading history. Hence I don’t agree with this view, I think History does help us compare our lives but history is much more than that.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'hence', 'if', 'look', 'so', 'then', 'i feel', 'i think', 'in fact']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.197033898305 0.240241500013 82% => OK
Verbs: 0.203389830508 0.157235817809 129% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0805084745763 0.0880659088768 91% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0402542372881 0.0497285424764 81% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0656779661017 0.0444667217837 148% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.103813559322 0.12292977631 84% => OK
Participles: 0.0529661016949 0.0406280797675 130% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.13392681525 2.79330140395 112% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0338983050847 0.030933414821 110% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0932203389831 0.0997080785238 93% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.010593220339 0.0249443105267 42% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0275423728814 0.0148568991511 185% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2513.0 2732.02544248 92% => OK
No of words: 421.0 452.878318584 93% => OK
Chars per words: 5.96912114014 6.0361032391 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.58838876751 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.32541567696 0.366273622748 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.270783847981 0.280924506359 96% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.16864608076 0.200843997647 84% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.128266033254 0.132149295362 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13392681525 2.79330140395 112% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 219.290929204 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.458432304038 0.48968727796 94% => OK
Word variations: 49.7757100838 55.4138127331 90% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6194690265 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.3888888889 23.380412469 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 84.374971422 59.4972553346 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.611111111 141.124799967 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3888888889 23.380412469 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.555555555556 0.674092028746 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.94800884956 61% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 50.467273687 51.4728631049 98% => OK
Elegance: 1.14383561644 1.64882698954 69% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.491010158869 0.391690518653 125% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.10376475589 0.123202303941 84% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.05858169336 0.077325440228 76% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.472112095632 0.547984918172 86% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.147217542215 0.149214159877 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.198336957167 0.161403998019 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107046106472 0.0892212321368 120% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.437854747691 0.385218514788 114% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0648316828091 0.0692045440612 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.387558938202 0.275328986314 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0285651310692 0.0653680567796 44% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30420353982 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 7.22455752212 125% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 13.5995575221 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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