When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we become storytellers. Because we
can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring
history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit. All historians are
storytellers."
History is an integral part of any community. There is no society without history. History as it stands defines the cultural heritage, ethos, mores and the laws guiding any society. The author contends that when we learn history, we concern ourselves more with telling stories and hence we are indulge more in story telling because the past can never be well known by any one. The author contends that when interpretations are provided to history, one must construct it by interpreting evidence and thus, putting our creativity into use. In as much as I agree with the author that interpreting history require creativity and it is tantamount to an act of storytelling, I disagree that all historians are story tellers. I would be stating my views in in the three points below.
To begin with, history encompasses the efforts of heroes who have gone before us, occurrences that have happened in time past that has that has paved way for contemporary developments. When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we are concern ourselves with telling of the stories of the past to the present generation which if just spoken or read directly to the contemporary generation might not really learn from history being taught and hence a little bit of creativity is needed to explicitly explain history. For example, explaining world war one and world war two to a child may seems recondite to the child, but when history are presented in form of a story, it becomes more relatable and lessons from history can be effectively impacted.
In addition, apart from the fact that history are taught in form of stories in other to ensure the message being passed is appropriately taken as stated above, the act of teaching history also involve interpreting evidences. Histories are well documented evidences that can only be well utilized when the evidence are interpreted by someone who is knowledgeable and not just by an amateur. IF history can be understood by everyone, then we would not have people who specialized in the study of historical figures. Admittedly, creativity is required in history, but history should be treated with objectivity and not just pure creativity because creativity can be subjected to subjectivity, depending on the historian point of view or moral or ethos and mores.
In addition, in as much as I agree that story historians are story tellers, I disagree that all historians are story tellers. Some historians are involve with finding out and making researches about things that happened in the past to ensure histories are properly passed down and not just moral sentiments of the historians are passed down in history.
In sum, the act of teaching history requires a little bit of creativity and historians impute creativity to ensure histories are well understood and the lessons are learnt. I disagree that all historians are story tellers. History involves more than just telling stories and historians need to be objective and not just creative in the interpretation of history.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2518.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 500.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.036 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72870804502 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84878921649 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.426 0.4932671777 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 822.6 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.357249462 60.3974514979 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.526315789 118.986275619 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3157894737 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.68421052632 5.21951772744 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 7.80617977528 154% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.381040811589 0.243740707755 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118473683657 0.0831039109588 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0824239469144 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.221607812609 0.150359130593 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100434519535 0.0667264976115 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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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.