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.

The prompt suggests that the main benefit of studying the history is to rescind the matter that - people of the respective times are significantly different from those of contemporaries - which is nothing but people of both times are similar to one another irrespective of the time interval - in simple words. However, for some obvious reasons I would like to "mostly disagree" with the statement and hereby I am obliged to provide necessary elaborations of certain points in defense of my position.

To begin with - in the midst of various benefits of studying history - one is to gain knowledge about the customs, cultures and mindsets of then people. When a person introduced himself or herself with the ancient regulations and livelihood of earlier people he or she certainly becomes a native one of them. Because history provides a person with the views and values of the contemporary people, he or she becomes more comfortable to understand those respective people. Now, the interesting fact is - to decide whether the people of earlier times are different from those of recent times or not - depends on the person himself; in a broad an open view. But there are some parameters upon which we can based our reasoning. For example - if we judge the discrepency among those people based on their physical morphology we will see that there are no difference in the concrete structure - at least in macro level. That is to say - everyone has one head, two hands, two eyes and so on. However, if you look at micro levels we can spot many many pithy differences. For example - the weather of subcontinent has gone through drastic change over the 100 years of overhaul. As we can the weather of a certain place impinges upon the customs and cultures of the natives of those places; we can easily derive the fact that - the common trites of that place will be much different from the earlier one; commonly about 100 years ago. Most of the people at that time in the subcontinent might be much more taller and stronger than recent ones or may not be. May be they were colonial at hat time but now they are not. Similarly there are tons of differences in the common trites and customs of people of the same geographic area because of time disparage; we can learn through history.

Another difference we can look out for is the change in the psyche of mass people at that times compared to the recent ones. It is very much possible that people of earlier times have totally different mindsets and views compared to us; because of that fact that - contemporary power, weather, customs, environment and many more elements are the deciding factors of the peoples' psyche. It is pretty much obvious - can be even vadlidated from the history - that people may regard the same things or matters with so much importance than we do now. Also, there is a possibility that they do the otherwise. But still there exists some kind of discrepency. For example - in many developing countries it was believed that there is no term such as marital rape. Husbands had the freedom to bring their wives into intercourse irrespective of their (wives) consent in earlier times. But now time has changed. People in those countries has evolved into a more civilized one; they are learning and being educated they can discern the wrong and the right. That this prowess over females in marital intercourse is a crime and should he be penalised or not is the question of today's world. So, the people of modern times are asking questions; through education and this is a great evidence for identifying the fact that people of earlier times are actually different from recent ones.

In spite of presenting the resoning above, it might be told that - there are also a lot of similarity among the people. However, we can not disregard the idea but it still hold the firmness that studying history actually tells us how different people are from their ancestors.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 576, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...arlier times are different from those of recent times or not - depends on the per...
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Line 3, column 704, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'base'
Suggestion: base
...e are some parameters upon which we can based our reasoning. For example - if we judg...
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Line 3, column 1035, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: many
...if you look at micro levels we can spot many many pithy differences. For example - the we...
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Line 3, column 1492, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'taller' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: taller
... time in the subcontinent might be much more taller and stronger than recent ones or may no...
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Line 3, column 1549, Rule ID: MAY_BE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'maybe' (=perhaps)?
Suggestion: Maybe
...tronger than recent ones or may not be. May be they were colonial at hat time but now ...
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Line 3, column 1609, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Similarly,
...onial at hat time but now they are not. Similarly there are tons of differences in the co...
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Line 7, column 173, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'holds'?
Suggestion: holds
...can not disregard the idea but it still hold the firmness that studying history actu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, look, may, similarly, so, still, then, at least, for example, kind of, such as, in spite of, to begin with, that is to say

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 19.5258426966 184% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 66.0 33.0505617978 200% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3251.0 2235.4752809 145% => OK
No of words: 675.0 442.535393258 153% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8162962963 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.09713273454 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62668072267 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 298.0 215.323595506 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.441481481481 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1042.2 704.065955056 148% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.1963683571 60.3974514979 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.107142857 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1071428571 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.57142857143 5.21951772744 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25801144631 0.243740707755 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0688675798022 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0662129658057 0.0758088955206 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176152779762 0.150359130593 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0555271066266 0.0667264976115 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 100.480337079 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 11.8971910112 160% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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