Question: 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.
I disagree that all university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is.
To begin with, most histories are not true but myths constructed by the political elites to control the state. There is an old saying in China going that "history is written by the winners." That makes a lot of sense. Rulers want to legalize their governance and want to maintain the harmony of the society and thus rewrite the history in a way that is beneficial to their own interests. For example, the CCP (the Chinese Communist Party) rewrote the history during the Anti-Japanese War from 1935 to 1945. Actually, the CCP did not contribute as many efforts as the Kuomingdang did, but after the establishment of the People Republic of China, the CCP told its people that Kuomingdang were very corrupted and did not try their best to fight against the Japanese troops.
In addition, learning history may make students become nationalists and be more conservative. Nationalism is an identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations. Nationalism is a very exclusive feeling and may lead to tariff barriers in international trade and racism in political affairs. History, in the upside, can cultivate students' loyalty to the nation, in the backside, may make them become nationalists because history tends to understate the failings and barbarian behaviors of its own country, and to overstate its glorious past. Take the history book in England as an example. When the book refers to the crown Englishmen robbed from the Indian royal family in the 19th century, it uses "the Indian crown" but does not mention the robbing behavior of Englishmen at all.
Lastly, it is university students' freedom of choice to determine whether to take history courses or not. University students are mature enough to make decisions on their own and to choose courses they want to take according to their interests and future career plan. If one student is an art major and is really interested in the history of art, she or he can take related history courses, but if one student is majoring in computer science and suffers from learning C++ and python, she or he can choose not to take history courses but uses more free time to practicing the computer language she or he learned from her or his own courses.
In a nutshell, although history is a rudimentary course for students, it may bring negative effects on students and it depends on students themselves towards whether to take the courses.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, lastly, may, really, so, thus, for example, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 13.8261648746 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 43.0788530466 72% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 52.1666666667 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2193.0 1977.66487455 111% => OK
No of words: 437.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01830663616 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85574355893 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 212.727598566 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519450800915 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 686.7 618.680645161 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 76.9268118084 48.9658058833 157% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.0625 100.406767564 137% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3125 20.6045352989 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.625 5.45110844103 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => 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: 0.26188110613 0.236089414692 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0979502529361 0.076458572812 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.130313045845 0.0737576698707 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204458704996 0.150856017488 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.186759489561 0.0645574589148 289% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 11.7677419355 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 58.1214874552 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.1575268817 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.01818996416 113% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 86.8835125448 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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