Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership 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 s

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Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.

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.

It is rightly said that if you want to understand the preasent, first understand the past. I strongly disagree with the point that understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership. There are severval reasons in support of my point of view as explained below.

First, it is a basic fact that history repeats itself. Thus, understanding the past helps the current leaders to avoid the same mistakes that were committed by their predecessors. For example, if a country in the past went into the hands of a military dictator, then it will be benefecial for the current leaders to know what and how the same incident in the past happened and thus be prepared to tackle this issue if it arises in their regime. Another example that can be looked at is that of Nazi Germany. If the current leaders of Germany know how democracy was sabotaged during the regime of Hitler, then these current leaders can frame better laws and wil have a higher chance in avoiding the incidents that happened under the regime of Hitler. Therefore, knowing and understanding the past is very important for current leaderhip to avoid the same mistakes and thus, provide a better future for thier followers or citizens.

Second, understanding the past is crucial to understanding your culture and roots. If you want to know how present situations were came, it is necessary to understand the past. For example, it is important for the leaders in a country like Ukraine to know how were the relations between Ukraine and Russia when both of these countries were part of a larger country known as Soviet Union(USSR). Also, it is important for the leaders of both the countries to know why and how Ukraine and Russia were separated in order to have corrdial relations in the present. Therefore, understanding the past is very important to understand how the present was derieved and gives a deeper insight into one's culture and roots.

But in some cases, if the leaderhip is too busy studying and understanding the past that it completely ignores the importance of present, then in such a case the followers and citizens under that leadership are surely doomed. The leadership should not be too engrossed in the past that they completely forget about present. Also sometimes, the leaders of a country invoke examples from their past civilizations in order to justify their unwarranted actions in the present. Hence, it is important for leadership to understand past but not to misuse it or get completely engrossed in it.

Thus, as explained above this is an intricate and complex issue and does not have a straightforward answer. But even then, in most situations, understanding the past is very imporant to those in current positions of leadership.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: come
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, look, second, so, then, therefore, thus, for example, in some cases

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 12.9106741573 8% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2298.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 467.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92077087794 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64867537961 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80429560521 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.426124197002 0.4932671777 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 716.4 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.3653097356 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.9 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.35 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => 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: 0.230469534404 0.243740707755 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0871929604838 0.0831039109588 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0865474299174 0.0758088955206 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161469040786 0.150359130593 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102419082786 0.0667264976115 153% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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