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.
In this statement the author claims that the main benefit of studying history is to disabuse the idea that nowadays people are significantly different from people who lived in the past. Surely this represents one of the benefits that studying history can give to whoever studies it. However, I think that it is not the most important one and that is why I don’t agree with the author’s declaration.
Firstly, I would like to focus on what I consider to be the most important lesson we can get from history. Learning about the history and the development of different countries was not only about enlarging our knowledge with new information. All the different wars, conflicts, birth of and changes in societies, are to be seen as a lesson from which we have to learn. By studying how some particular actions, political changes, beliefs, precipitated into conflicts and wars, we can have a great example of what had to be avoided, modified or controlled, in order to avoid these events from happening in the future.
For example, let’s think of World War II, probably the most known and studied war of all times. By focusing on what caused it, and most importantly on how some particular events led to the catastrophic consequences we all know, we can learn how to avoid them. Analyzing how Hitler was able to gain all his fame and control over Germany, and especially the “tools” he used to accomplish his goal, can help us understand possible red flags of upcoming nationalism.
On the other hand, the difference between living in our present, globalized world rather than in a distant era can lead people to think that people changed dramatically. History can surely show us that mankind has always been driven from the same motifs and desires, no matter which historical period it lived in.
In conclusion I would say that even though history can give us a greater insight on how people from earlier historic periods didn’t differ that much from us, it doesn’t represent the most important benefit: learning from our past mistakes.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...and control over Germany, and especially the “tools” he used to accomplish his go...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, so, for example, i think, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1715.0 2235.4752809 77% => OK
No of words: 348.0 442.535393258 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92816091954 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70359848623 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.563218390805 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 518.4 704.065955056 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.2370786517 64% => 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: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5293828279 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.923076923 118.986275619 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7692307692 23.4991977007 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.69230769231 5.21951772744 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => 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: 0.233238672609 0.243740707755 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0903898272297 0.0831039109588 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0963527445498 0.0758088955206 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145674872938 0.150359130593 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0981356519573 0.0667264976115 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 100.480337079 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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