Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership 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 s

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Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.

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.

How the past affects the future is a very interesting question to debate about. It has has even greater significance when we specifically talk about leadership. The prompt suggests that understanding the past is of little use to those in current roles of leadership. I strongly disagree with the prompt for the following reasons.

To begin, the government of any country or state needs to study and understand the past, as the past can give clues to handle major issues of the comtemporary world. For example take the case of the deadly corona virus, which originated in China and ran rampant across the world, killing hundreds of thousands. Now in order to stop the spread of the disease, for which no known cure existed, governments all around the world imposed complete lockdowns on their states. This decision was influenced by what countries did while combating other global pandemics in the past, such as smallpox and swine flu. Understanding the past allows major bodies of leadership to use a successful strategy used in the past to combat modern day problems.

Furthermore, the modern day world is a result of a series of events which took place in the past. Thus in order to truly understand certain things we take for granted in the contemporary world, we must completely understand the past. For example, its a well known fact that the president of the United States of America can only stay in office for maximum of two terms. However, in order to truly understand why this is the case, one has to go back to the days in which the constitution was written. A exegesis of this period will allow modern day presidents to truly understand the meaning of their role in office.

Now many 'experts' believe the current day world is drastically different from the world of the past. They argue that present day humans face significantly different problems when compared to what humans of the past did. To these 'experts' I would like to say, that even though our society has improved technologically , the various problems faced by people are still the same. Issues of poverty, health care, lack of education and student loans were always a concern for people living in any age. Thus leader needs to dig deep into the past to understand what policies worked and what policies failed when deciding the appropriate way to handle these conundrums.

In conclusion I would like to say that studying and understanding the past will allow leaders of the current world to form better and more efficient policies, inspired from previous policies, to tackle modern day problems.

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, however, if, so, still, thus, well, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 82.0 58.6224719101 140% => 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: 2145.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 437.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90846681922 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6742918519 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54004576659 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 653.4 704.065955056 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.5250263899 60.3974514979 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 107.25 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.85 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.9 5.21951772744 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => 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: 0.183570528371 0.243740707755 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0620724453104 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0522354068506 0.0758088955206 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107938048589 0.150359130593 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0516021842713 0.0667264976115 77% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 100.480337079 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => 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: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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