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 m

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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 about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.

We learn about history so that one cannot repeat the mistakes same as before. Ignoring the past can be considered as one step towards the failure. The statement considers that today knowledge about the past does not help people while taking important decisions. In my opinion, the statement cannot be validated enough for a few reasons.

Firstly, knowing about past may not be that much helpful as today we are dealing with a new set of problems in a different era but any generation or any era cannot avoid the basic life of a person. Of course, the lifestyle has changed, still people have to take their own decisions and have to work hard for what they want to achieve. So, in terms of taking important decisions there is no harm in knowing about the past. For instance, if the world was unaware of the failed experiments our scientists have performed to reach to a solution, there might be a possibility that today's or even future generation's scientists might be working on the similar concept without knowing about their past. The question might occur that they have the advanced equipment than the past scientists, but still the chemical element or the space theory will be the same. The way of looking or considering a problem might change but the problem stays the same.

Secondly, there are times we can consider that knowing about past isn't that much important for taking present decisions. For instance, it is not important to know about the past before joining a school but it is important to know about the past of the school. As joining a prestigious school can affect a student's life in a way the home schooling cannot. Basically, one needs to be aware of what they are getting into before taking part in any activity and should have known about the previous results to avoid the failures in the similar way as before. This gives a person better understanding and a step closer to the success.

Thirdly, the knowledge about past provides a solid platform to a person. Knowing about the past means being familiar with the experiences of different people and knowing about their good and bad decisions. And understand how one bad decision can cause a blunder or can diminish an entire city in amount of time. One of the best examples of profit of knowing about the past for making present decisions is today's politics between different countries. Today countries like USA, China, South Korea are trying to avoid the chances of World War 3 as much as possible because everyone is aware of the results of World War2 which clearly shows that there is no victory of any country in the war.

Concluding my point, it is not disastrous if somebody is unaware of the past but it can be considered as one's weakness. The knowledge about past is used to avoid the repetition of the mistakes done in the history to avoid the same sufferings in future and hence I disagree with the statement.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 67, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...we can consider that knowing about past isnt that much important for taking present ...
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Line 9, column 261, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...t to know about the past of the school. As joining a prestigious school can affect...
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Line 9, column 306, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...ining a prestigious school can affect a students life in a way the home schooling cannot...
^^^^^^^^
Line 13, column 690, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s no victory of any country in the war. Concluding my point, it is not disastrou...
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Line 17, column 106, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...of the past but it can be considered as ones weakness. The knowledge about past is u...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, still, third, thirdly, while, as to, for instance, of course, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2405.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 508.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7342519685 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50323973231 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450787401575 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 756.9 704.065955056 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.6429620883 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.318181818 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0909090909 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.36363636364 5.21951772744 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0834280274723 0.243740707755 34% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0304742488012 0.0831039109588 37% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.025115248881 0.0758088955206 33% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0578523186344 0.150359130593 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0154773122371 0.0667264976115 23% => 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: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.45 12.1639044944 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.79 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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