Learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. Do you agree or disagree?

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Learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. Do you agree or disagree?

As a kid history wasn't my favorite subject in high school, still there was always a quote written on history books which used to impress me and push me towards the subject- "We study history to avoid the same mistakes again ". Learning about our past plays an important role in our lives as we learn about our culture, traditions, etc. Also, it is important to have knowledge about the past wars and sacrifices of freedom fighters for the country. So, I would disagree with the statement that learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present.

Firstly, as time passes many things change and people forget about their traditions, languages, culture. For example, as a kid my grandmother used to tell me the stories of her childhood about how they used to celebrate festivals, what was the environment during the world wars and how they suffered for food and land. Of course, this is all history and isn't useful for us now, but they do play a role in how we see our ancestors. If my grandmother wouldn't have told me about her childhood, I wouldn't have known how lively their life was at the time. They didn't had internet, still teens used to group up for many adventurous plans. Also, there are so many lost languages which our ancestors used to speak, but because nobody uses them today, we have no knowledge of them. I believe, learning about the past connects us with our ancestors.

Secondly, every country has its own story, with its own heroes and our history tells us the stories of them. If it weren't for the history records, we would have never known how many freedom fighters and soldiers have lost their lives for the wellbeing of our country. For example, everyone is familiar with how Mahatma Gandhi's actions helped India achieve independence, but the past tells us that it wasn't only Gandhi who fought, but many other freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, Mangal Pandey, Lakshmi Bai, and many more gave up their crowns and glories for serving and fighting for their countries.

Moreover, there are many examples why learning history is important. For instance, if there was no record of how Newton found about gravity, Einstein would have never been able to oppose him. Hence, in my opinion, it is important to learn about our history.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, well, for example, for instance, of course, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 9.8082437276 31% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 55.0 43.0788530466 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => 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: 1898.0 1977.66487455 96% => OK
No of words: 399.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75689223058 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36084106152 2.67179642975 88% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 212.727598566 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511278195489 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 575.1 618.680645161 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.4130992579 48.9658058833 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.647058824 100.406767564 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4705882353 20.6045352989 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.88235294118 5.45110844103 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.5376344086 144% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.294597175789 0.236089414692 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116515010578 0.076458572812 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.136274733011 0.0737576698707 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195106493143 0.150856017488 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0892450304437 0.0645574589148 138% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 11.7677419355 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 58.1214874552 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 86.8835125448 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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