#65 Should a city try to preserve its old, historic buildings or destroy them and replace them with modern buildings? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

Preservation of old and historic buildings is of paramount importance as they not only signify the history of the region and country but they also help to promote tourism. Some erudite might believe that replacing historic buildings in the city with modern buildings is necessary to make the city look beautiful but they fail to overlook the beauty of these historic buildings. I contend that there are number of reasons why historic buildings should be preserved. In what follows, I will aptly substantiate my point.

Historic buildings can be ancient monuments, archaic temples or just an old house which may have some significance. These historic buildings are mostly different from the modern buildings in terms of strength, color and shapes which make them valuable. In some cases, they might be an excellent example of works of artists and architects. For example, the Taj Mahal built during the reign of Shah Jahan is not only a marvelous structure but it also has a great historical significance to why it was built. It was built in the memory of Shah Jahan's beloved wife Mumtaj Mahal. Therefore, the buildings having major or minor historical significance should not be decimated for modern buildings.

Some people believe that for the development of the city older buildings need to be replaced with modern buildings. However, these buildings can just be renovated to new ones without destroying them and help preserve the culture and art of these buildings. These buildings contain some important artistic works which help us to study about ancient civilizations.

Decimation of large amount of historical buildings in an area can cause imbalance among the local population and might lead to several protests. For example, when the local government in holy city of Varanasi(India) decided to destroy large no. of old buildings and archaic temples for developing a road corridor project, it caused a lot distrust among people leading to massive protests. Many people were forced to leave their old houses and ancestral belongings.

In conclusion, it would be appropriate to state that destruction of buildings of historical significance would lead to destruction of culture, arts and could cause distrust and unrest among the population of cities. Thus, suitable actions need to be taken to conserve historical buildings.

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, so, therefore, thus, for example, in conclusion, in some cases

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 43.0788530466 58% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1968.0 1977.66487455 100% => OK
No of words: 374.0 407.700716846 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26203208556 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83504679831 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.508021390374 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 603.0 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3980983347 48.9658058833 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.578947368 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6842105263 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.10526315789 5.45110844103 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.306310721045 0.236089414692 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0968263099146 0.076458572812 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0744749189936 0.0737576698707 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172516906248 0.150856017488 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0748650622995 0.0645574589148 116% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 11.7677419355 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 10.9000537634 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 86.8835125448 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21 Out of 30
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