The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives

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The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives.

The history comprise stories and reflections of lives related to our ancestors, In this sense, the speaker maintains that history only benefits us in the scope that is relevant to our daily lives. In my view, this assertion is too narrow, which ignores a range of aspects of studying history.

First, despite the score of daily life, history provide us with valuable information concerning our origin. In the torrent of time, we are interconnected to different groups of people, but not suddenly appear. Studying history helps us realize our origin and provide us with knowledge that how we evolve. For example, the history of Taiwan outlines the picture that how our culture be shaped and how our ancestors connected with globe. That is, we experienced several colonization of other countries, from western countries, Spain, to the eastern one, Japan. From these periods, every different culture dripped their cultures and practice into Taiwan and gradually shape the modern society that we now know.

Besides, history makes people understand the importance of unity and facilitates the sense of patriotism. Again, the experience of colonization from other countries reminds Taiwanese people how precious it is to govern their own country by themselves. Thus, people will cherish the autonomy that they possess today. And, the history of China, that the founding father of China, Sun Yet-Sun organized people overthrow the old regime to secure the democracy and well-being, reminds people in China how huge effort to exert to achieve a stable and desirable country.

Furthermore, the history inspire people’s creativity to come up with their own works. There are replete with examples that the artistic works are motivated by historical story. In Asia, the marvelous novels of martial art that written by Kim-Yun are based on fascinating story in previous dynasties. In other hand, industries of western countries usually construct the scene and story by drawing the elements from history. For example, the movie, Gone with the wing, is under the background of civil war in America.

Admittedly, it is undeniable that history has values that benefits our daily lives as the speaker’s saying. History is a reflective mirror that help us retrospect our behaviors and conducts. In running a business or a country, the history tells leaders that they cannot be complacent or arrogant even in the peaceful time or in the smooth conditions, we need to always be conscious for the danger around us. There are lots of story tell us the collapse of a thriving dynasty was caused by arrogant of its leader. In our mundane life, the history also replete with wisdom to tackle with our daily works properly, such as, The story of Washington, the American’s founding father, tells us honesty is the best policy.

In sum, studying history is not only beneficial to our daily lives, but it also has a lot of advantages in different aspect from giving us deeper understanding of our culture, through consolidate the unity of people, to inspire people’s creativity.

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Average: 8.7 (2 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 461, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[8]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun colonization seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'some colonization'.
Suggestion: some colonization
...ted with globe. That is, we experienced several colonization of other countries, from western countr...
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Line 5, column 378, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hina, that the founding father of China, Sun Yet-Sun organized people overthrow t...
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Line 9, column 387, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding danger'?
Suggestion: the surrounding danger
...ons, we need to always be conscious for the danger around us. There are lots of story tell us the co...
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Line 9, column 419, Rule ID: LOTS_OF_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun story seems to be countable; consider using: 'lots of stories'.
Suggestion: lots of stories
...ous for the danger around us. There are lots of story tell us the collapse of a thriving dyna...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, furthermore, if, so, thus, well, for example, such as, in my view

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2578.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 497.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18712273642 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71550327452 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529175050302 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 810.0 704.065955056 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 14.0 4.38483146067 319% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.49923935 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.086956522 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6086956522 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298945541286 0.243740707755 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0823219387494 0.0831039109588 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110549332958 0.0758088955206 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166245775552 0.150359130593 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112746088128 0.0667264976115 169% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 100.480337079 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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