Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
The author claims that knowing about the past cannot help in making important decisions today. Since, human behaviour, natural patterns and underlying principles of life don’t differ much over time, location and scenarios in question; knowledge about the past is indeed helpful in making behaviour well-informed decisions today.
Human psychology and behaviour remains same regardless of time, at least after the evolution into ‘homo sapiens’. The virtues and the vice that had plagued the society in the past are same even today. Knowing about the nature and brutalities of war-crimes of the two world wars helped United Nations formulate the articles of Geneva Convention. Even the formation and functioning principles of United Nations were based on the knowledge of the past diplomatic mistakes that led to the wars. Moreover, psychologists have proposed the idea of intuitive decision making skills that humans develop based on their experience and knowledge of facing similar situations over and over again. For example, an experienced fire fighter leading a team in a rescue operation, immediately ask his crew to leave a burning house and within seconds the whole burning structure falls apart. It was the knowledge of his past experiences that helped him to take sub-conscious yet a smart decision in a jiffy.
The claim can further be refuted by the fact that nature invariably behaves in a same way. For example, the threat of the climate change that humans face today appears very similar to that of ‘Ice Age’. Scientists have found intriguing similarities between the patterns of increasing carbon dioxide today and the years preceding the Ice Age. Knowledge about the reasons and consequences of ice age can therefore help in taking important steps in curbing and mitigating the effects of climate change. Similarly, learning from the detrimental effects of industrialization on the environment has helped human civilization to take timely and crucial steps in adopting green technology, bio-fuels, carbon dioxide sequestration techniques, etc.
Admittedly, the human world today is far more complex than it was few centuries or even decades before. Every aspect of human life is in a continuous state of evolution whether trade, science, politics, military war-fares, family relations, etc. Therefore, it is valid to ask about the extent to which past knowledge can be useful in taking important decisions today. For example, knowledge about ‘barter’ system of trade cannot help businessmen to take decisions about investing in the stock market today. This is because every knowledge about a past event or concept cannot be directly relevant and related to a given scenario. To avail from a given past knowledge, one must be competent enough to decipher its underlying lessons and establish a connection to a present situation. And while scenarios evolve, the fundamental governing laws remain uniform with time. Therefore, considering the same example of ‘barter’ system, since nature of the trade is unchanging, countries can still learn from it that how trade is always mutual and decide to make important trade deals.
In conclusion, while scenarios have evolved with time and hence the world today has become increasingly complicated, the laws governing those scenarios, human behaviour and natural patterns remain homogenous over the time. Therefore, knowing about the past events does help in making important decisions today though they must be adapted to meet the need of the situation.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, if, moreover, second, similarly, so, still, therefore, well, while, at least, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 90.0 58.6224719101 154% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2990.0 2235.4752809 134% => OK
No of words: 551.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42649727768 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84493438435 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84887230303 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 282.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511796733212 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 943.2 704.065955056 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.5795245209 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.583333333 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9583333333 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.625 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.401655303246 0.243740707755 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126492718383 0.0831039109588 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.167845452554 0.0758088955206 221% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.271770288984 0.150359130593 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.139333718669 0.0667264976115 209% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.51 12.1639044944 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 151.0 100.480337079 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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