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

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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.

Knowing and understanding the past is of great importance to those in current positions of leadership. So, I disagree with the statement that the understanding the past is of little importance. The situations of a country evolves and so do the circumstances of a problem. Without having a prior knowledge of the past will greatly affect the leaders' decision making and might have a direct negative impact on issues faced.
History is a great teacher. It helps you to understand from your own mistakes as well as from the mistakes of others. For example the capital of India during the British reign was Kolkata ( a port, it was decided because there will be an ease of trade). But after Independence the capital was shifted to New Delhi which is a central place and provides a cultural as well as economical significance which was not the case with Kolkata. Also during times of natural disasters, it is very important to be prepared to face the wrath of the nature. Take the case of a cyclone. Taking precautionary measures, depends a lot on how the cyclone is moving and where it is currently located. By having an understanding of the past we can easily know that the most affected areas will be the low lying areas. Also another great example would that be wars. How and when wars were fought, what strategies were used would be a great understanding. Another important fact, why leaders should understand the past, is to know how the implementation of certain laws and rules have resulted in. For example India recently implemented the GST, the government before implementing it would have researched a lot about how other countries implemented it, what other strategies they used and the problems they faced. And our government would then have had to find out how they would solve those problems. Elections are fought on the basis of the past, which party got elected last time and which areas were it's stronghold, which areas need improvement (in terms of votes). WIth the understanding of past the leaders can understand what exactly is that the people want - employment, education, infrastructure and what they expect from a candidate before voting. Countries that were colonised provide a very good example to this statement. The countries were colonised and were ruled by a monarch. They were treated as slaves and not given any freedom. When these countries got freedom, the leadership should have understood that suppression and oppression of the people would not lead to a peaceful society and should have adopted methods to make it a free country not repeat the mistakes of the oppressors. Countries that did so prospered and the others did not.
We might think that the past is past, there have been many developments both technically and mentally. People have changed, the resources have changed. An idea that was implemented around 50 years ago, that is being considered now would not give the same results, nor is it expected to. Also the geographical conditions vary and so the same idea can't be expected to give the results everywhere. But the idea is that we at least get to know what were the mistakes committed at that time while laying the rules for those ideas and not make the same mistake.
We can't expect the leaders to follow everything from the past and only focus on that( talk only about the achievements or difficulties). They have to understand the past and realise the wrong moves and try to correct them now.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...dia during the British reign was Kolkata a port, it was decided because there wil...
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Suggestion: Also,
...ce which was not the case with Kolkata. Also during times of natural disasters, it i...
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Suggestion: Also,
...he same results, nor is it expected to. Also the geographical conditions vary and so...
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...eas and not make the same mistake. We cant expect the leaders to follow everything...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, then, well, while, at least, for example, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2852.0 2235.4752809 128% => OK
No of words: 589.0 442.535393258 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84210526316 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.92639038232 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74005684607 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.473684210526 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 887.4 704.065955056 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.2370786517 153% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.332639607 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.0 118.986275619 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.29032258065 5.21951772744 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.176027877253 0.243740707755 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0451599065829 0.0831039109588 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0609252618319 0.0758088955206 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103597818972 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0615956989651 0.0667264976115 92% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.1392134831 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.1639044944 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 100.480337079 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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