When old buildings stand on ground that modern planners feel could be better used for modern purposes, modern development should be given precedence over the preservation of historic buildings.
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.
Historic buildings have a very important role in sustaining a society and should not be replaced by new buildings mainly due to a better utility. They bear a nation's sense of identity and they are to thank for keeping a community whole, especially in times of hardship.
One might argue that past is not important when juxtaposed with the realities of the modern times. Population is increasing exponentially and the constraint on available resources are like never before. Therefore, while sentimental values are important, they lose priority to solving modern day issues that might affect people's lives directly. This is a sound argument, but it is not that simple. While cultural identity might not seem to be a crucial factor in determining the quality of life and economic prosperity of a community, they actually play a very important role in times of hardship, war, and recession; they actually can play a lifesaving role in such circumstances.
There's always many alternatives for building something new while old buildings are unique. A historic building cannot be replaced nor revived after destruction. It is a priceless part of a nation's history and it has direct effect on people's mindset about their priorities. For example, in the US, we value our soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in the past wars. We salute them by building monuments and keeping and restoring their warfare (such as ships and planes). These are not just to thank them for their service. They mainly serve as a reminder of the hardship that this nation has gone through throughout its history and they serve as a symbol of perseverance and sacrifice for a greater common good. With such monuments in place, in case of another disaster, war or recession, the society won't lose hope and will work cooperatively to survive.
Meanwhile, the issues of today, that might warrant destruction of a historic building in the eyes of modern planners, can vanish over time. One major factor is the fast development of new technologies. For example, back in the days before invention of internet, a city planner might have decided to replace an old building in a busy downtown with a new metro station mainly because of increased congestion of traffic in the area. But less than two decades later, the fast reliable internet networks provide us with the option to work remotely thus decreasing the need to commute to the downtown; Problem solved!
Therefore, the role of historic buildings as a determinant of cultural identity should be considered when planning new developments.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: There's
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'nations'' or 'nation's'?
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'peoples'' or 'people's'?
Suggestion: peoples'; people's
...ons history and it has direct effect on peoples mindset about their priorities. For exa...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'if', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'while', 'for example', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.238709677419 0.240241500013 99% => OK
Verbs: 0.135483870968 0.157235817809 86% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0989247311828 0.0880659088768 112% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0645161290323 0.0497285424764 130% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0451612903226 0.0444667217837 102% => OK
Prepositions: 0.137634408602 0.12292977631 112% => OK
Participles: 0.0430107526882 0.0406280797675 106% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.83696808372 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0215053763441 0.030933414821 70% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.094623655914 0.0997080785238 95% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0236559139785 0.0249443105267 95% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.010752688172 0.0148568991511 72% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2564.0 2732.02544248 94% => OK
No of words: 423.0 452.878318584 93% => OK
Chars per words: 6.06146572104 6.0361032391 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.58838876751 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.382978723404 0.366273622748 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.307328605201 0.280924506359 109% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.224586288416 0.200843997647 112% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.144208037825 0.132149295362 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83696808372 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 219.290929204 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529550827423 0.48968727796 108% => OK
Word variations: 60.4992093797 55.4138127331 109% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 21.15 23.380412469 90% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.3331274221 59.4972553346 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.2 141.124799967 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.15 23.380412469 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.45 0.674092028746 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 51.8828605201 51.4728631049 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.71052631579 1.64882698954 104% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.288411060509 0.391690518653 74% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0697988644163 0.123202303941 57% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0420854827394 0.077325440228 54% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.479804643018 0.547984918172 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.19129749948 0.149214159877 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101960800542 0.161403998019 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0628134152916 0.0892212321368 70% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.287447527873 0.385218514788 75% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0290756818051 0.0692045440612 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191020338998 0.275328986314 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0362896281595 0.0653680567796 56% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.4325221239 77% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.30420353982 151% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 13.5995575221 110% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.