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.
The statement made discards the importance of understanding of past for the current leaders. This is a claim which sounds too extreme. Good leaders won't do mistakes to learn from them; rather they would look up in the past and see for a similar incident and learn from them.
Firstly, history is a very important subject to study for someone who aspires to be a good leader. History tells us stories about the past. A good leader must comprehend some learnings out of these stories and use them for her benefit. For example, Hitler did the mistake of attacking Russia during the winter which led to his downfall during World War II as Russian soldiers are more accustomed to the winter than German soldiers who were not able to bear the chill cold weather. Many years earlier, Napolean Bonaparte had done the same mistake of trying to conquer Russia during winter which had led to a brutal loss. Had Hitler understood the past and learned from it, he won't have made such similar mistake. History is not merely old stories; these are stories that tells us some important things out of which we can comprehend many important life lessons.
Thus the past allows the current leaders to learn from mistakes rather than do them and then learn from them. They provide a roadmap- if you do something X, there's a higher chance of success and if you do something Y, it may lead to your downfall. The past need not be of the leaders' same political party or group. They can learn from others' mistakes as well. This is the beauty of understanding our past- we can learn a lot without doing something ourselves.
One may argue against the understanding of past and tell that it is of no importance anymore as we have totally different worldwide scenario right now as compared to some decades ago. For example, we have modern society now so a young new leader might argue that she don't need to look back at the past and learn all about the President of United States, how it was unified and all about its glorious past. But, if she don't studies anything about the past she won't have any pride of the country. She won't even understand how Abraham Lincoln led to unification of the different States. This is not only about the unification of States- this tells us more about the leadership qualities like leading from the front, able to give his all for the betterment of the country.
This is an extreme claim to make and diminish the importance of understanding of past. The knowledge of past is really important for anyone who aspires to be a good leader. History not only tells us about our past but it teaches us to have pride in our country's past, it tells us stories of couage and valor-which will lead someone to become a better leader.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, look, may, really, so, then, thus, well, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2243.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 489.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.58691206544 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70248278971 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39794388361 2.79657885939 86% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464212678937 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 690.3 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.5860517993 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.5217391304 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2608695652 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.34782608696 5.21951772744 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.142952472187 0.243740707755 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0473563590517 0.0831039109588 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0353969591544 0.0758088955206 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0896948562919 0.150359130593 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0230971312123 0.0667264976115 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 48.8420337079 137% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.34 12.1639044944 77% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.23 8.38706741573 86% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 100.480337079 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 11.8971910112 50% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.