Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

<span style="font-size: 19.36px;">Some people claim that the current students are not sufficiently burdened with their academic studies, so they advise that the universities should require all the students to extend their studies to other areas, especially history, since history tells lessons and helps shape the future. Personally speaking, studying history indeed benefits students' future, yet it is not wise to require every college student to do so, for it will add extra burden to the students and might distract them from their current concentration.

Why does history matter? It does because it gives us a number of lessons that previous generations have undergone. These lessons, either cheerful or painful, could help us better deal with current or future problems. Let us take the rise and fall of the Chinese Dynasties as good examples. From history classes, we know that the first emperor of a new dynasty always carefully analyzed the major reasons that led to the extinguishment of the previous dynasty, and then would design relevant policies to prevent such problems. Thus, I suppose that the reason why we learn history is to summarize the lessons and to give hints in the future.

Have you ever been buried by the piles of the documents in the library simply because you had to write papers on seminar projects before the deadline? Have you ever rushed from the library to the classroom without a second bite of the newly purchased burger simply because your next discussion was in 5 minutes? The university life is never easy for those students, who are always facing endless papers, materials, group discussions, experiments, and quizzes. Therefore, requiring them to study additional history classes seems an impossible mission and hardly fits into their schedules. Things get worse for those students, especially for whom the history lessons bring more burdens than benefits. Some students, whose majors mostly go round the cutting-edge technologies, such as AI, Quantum Physics and Neuroscience, need to stay focus on those topics, as the basic historical understandings owned at their high school are adequate for their needs.

Therefore, I would like to suggest universities to respect the personal will of students. One way is to offer several kinds of history courses for those who are crazy about historical stories and to leave freedom for those who are less passionate but want to focus on their own subjects. An ideal situation is that university notifies the main topic of each lecture, and each student could choose to attend any one out of their interests, instead of university command, as the saying "Interest is the best teacher.".

In short, history is indeed crucial important, but universities could make it become an option instead of compulsory command.</span><br>

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, second, so, then, therefore, thus, i suppose, in short, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 43.0788530466 93% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2398.0 1977.66487455 121% => OK
No of words: 450.0 407.700716846 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32888888889 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6057793516 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98136102816 2.67179642975 112% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 212.727598566 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6 0.524837075471 114% => OK
syllable_count: 732.6 618.680645161 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 75.4798640469 48.9658058833 154% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.222222222 100.406767564 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 20.6045352989 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.38888888889 5.45110844103 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207750198718 0.236089414692 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0582881362911 0.076458572812 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0447758771806 0.0737576698707 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103416308369 0.150856017488 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0538256831769 0.0645574589148 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 11.7677419355 138% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 58.1214874552 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 10.1575268817 128% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 10.9000537634 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.01818996416 112% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 86.8835125448 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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