In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
During the course of its history the humanity used different ways to accumulate the learned knowledge, document and transfer it to next generations. I believe, that it would be impossible for our generation to achieve such a significant progress in almost every field of science and technology without relying on the knowledge and experience as well as achievements of our ancestors.
For centuries, humanity relied on the experience, gained by the past generations. This accumulated knowledge allows not only to gain a deeper perspective of issues in this field but also develop new methods, contributing to its further expansion or even sprouting of new areas. For example, achievements in modern medicine would have been impossible without detailed scrutiny of human body conducted by generations of doctors. The famous works by medieval scientists and doctor, Ibn Sina (Avicienna)had a great influence on the European medicine, inspiring the Western doctors to investigate the origins of different ailments and prescribe treatments. This practice laid foundations for modern anatomy and biophysics. Obviously, without these experience the modern medicine might not be able to achieve its preeminence.
The knowledge and experience, coming from the research of our ancestors, helps us from spending our time to reestablishing the natural laws. Thanks to the advances of Newton and Leibniz, the modern engineer does not need to reinvent calculus to calculate the flow of the air while developing the new generation of plane engines. Due to the works by Tsiolkovsky we are now able to send mission to space and investigate Mars, Moon and other celestial objects. These few examples brightly demonstrate how the knowledge and advances of the past in different fields contribute to their further development nowadays.
However, due to the diversity of opinions and ideas, prevailing in our society, resulting in different interpretation of the same phenomenon, not all the knowledge of the past can be found useful for today's implementation. Every knowledge relies on the corpus of the collected evidence as well as on the methods and tools available for its analysis and interpretation. The initially reasonable theory or hypothesis, popular in past times might be discarded, when more feasible and accurate interpretation of experimental results is found. For instance, based on the observation of trajectories of Sun and planets, as well as on the seemingly plain landscape our ancestors believed that our Earth has a shape of the disk. Only the further observations were able to reveal the spherical shape of our planet. Despite this, the initially erroneous idea of plain Erath contributed to the further research in discovering its real shape. This example clearly demonstrates the evolution of human knowledge over time.
To sum up, I strongly agree that any significant contribution in any field of human activity would be impossible without the past achievements in this fields by former generations.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'During'.
Suggestion: During
During the course of its history the humanity used different...
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Line 1, column 224, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'significant progress'.
Suggestion: significant progress
...ible for our generation to achieve such a significant progress in almost every field of science and te...
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Line 3, column 110, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...generations. This accumulated knowledge allows not only to gain a deeper perspec...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, well, while, for example, for instance, as well as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2550.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 469.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43710021322 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65364457471 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14091094744 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535181236674 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 808.2 704.065955056 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.2377903647 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.5 118.986275619 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.45 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.157540581389 0.243740707755 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.048205520486 0.0831039109588 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0817505790477 0.0758088955206 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130435765814 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.118231131813 0.0667264976115 177% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.57 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.66 8.38706741573 115% => OK
difficult_words: 145.0 100.480337079 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.