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.
Recently, there has been raised a debate concerning all the university students have to take history courses. For the statement, the voices are various. Some people assert that by studying history the students will gain a range of transferable skills, from informed citizenship and critical thinking, so it is necessary for all of them to study history regardless of their majors. Others, however, maintain that studying history should not be a requirement for all the students but an optional. From my perspective, there more merits than demerits to study history. In this essay, I would like to take a closer look at the statement based on the following points.
The most immediate point is that there’s more history than knowing when and where certain events occurred. It’s a common misperception that studying history simply involves remembering people, events, key dates, and places, etc. The who, what, when and where types of questions are just the start of it. Historians are far more interested in exploring how and why questions – that is, interpreting events to better understand how they unfolded and why they occurred. Take, for instance, World war I and II. Why did the UK change the attitude to the Soviet Union after world war II? Can the difference of the national system or the western and eastern values explain the division between the UAS and the Soviet Union? Therefore, with knowing so much information about the world, it is reasonable for all the students to take history courses.
Another point is worth mentioning is that studying history can help students land great jobs. A history major can lead to all kinds of careers. Some of the more popular options include government positions all kinds of NGOs, teaching, journalism and the media, and so on. Some of the world’s most influential business leaders share a common experience of studying history at university. Prominent examples include: Li meng, the CEO of Chinese Express, completed a history major at college. Thus, for some students who major computer science, mathematics can not only find a job in the field of science but history-related jobs.
Further lending credence to my position is that studying history enables us to develop a better understanding of the world in which we live. Building knowledge and understanding of historical events and trends, especially over the past century, enables us to develop a much greater appreciation for current events today. For instance, a philosopher Chen ping, from Zhejiang university once said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. And if we heed Chen’s warning, then remembering history – and learning important lessons from it – should help us to avoid previous mistakes and prevent previous misdeeds from happening again. That is more instructive for all the students in their life than other natural science courses.
In a nutshell, granted, it is important for university students to master the skill and absorb knowledge which particularly benefits for their career and helps them to find a decent job after graduation, but studying history brings many upsides to the students no matter in life or career in different majors.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, so, then, therefore, thus, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 13.8261648746 166% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 43.0788530466 74% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 8.0752688172 211% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2717.0 1977.66487455 137% => OK
No of words: 522.0 407.700716846 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20498084291 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77988695657 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80631987093 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 275.0 212.727598566 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526819923372 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 827.1 618.680645161 134% => 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: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.0384615385 48.9658058833 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.5 100.406767564 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0769230769 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.42307692308 5.45110844103 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238541293032 0.236089414692 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0658033705225 0.076458572812 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0552953484664 0.0737576698707 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135953335472 0.150856017488 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0643925465706 0.0645574589148 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 11.7677419355 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 10.9000537634 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.01818996416 108% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 86.8835125448 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => 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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