The main benefit of the study of history is to dispel the illusion that people living now are significantly different from people who lived in earlier times.
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.
History gives us the persprective on life, that worrying about the future cannot provide. The prompt recommends that studying history dispels the illusion that people living now are significantly different from the people who lived in earlier times.It can be inferred that the lives of people in the present age is comparable to the life of people a few centuries back. In my opinion, I mostly agree with this assertion for the following two reasons.
To begin, although the human race as undergone several changes during the course of history, the psycological aspect has remained more or less the same. Even today, the basic necessities of mankind, food, clothing and shelter remain the same. During the height of the Roman empire, common people used to set out, everday to perform their respective jobs in order to earn these basic necessities for their families. Same is the case today. But instead of going to work in a field, we work in skyscrapers and and glass buildings. But the motive remains the same.
Furthermore, the main purpose of studying history is the learn from our mistakes and not repeat them again. But as is evident from history itself (ironically), that is not the case. Humans have been fighting wars since times unknown and even continue to do so today. At the end of World War two, there was a concensus among the general population that war bring nothing but misery and pain for the common people, just to satisfy the interests of a few people in power. Decisions were made, treaties were signed to avoid any further wars. But, reality is always dissapointing. Just under half a century of two devastating wars, we have learned nothing from history and continue to fight wars on multiple fronts.
Of course, some people argue that there has been a significant change in the attitude and outlook for the future, between say a man in the 1940s and a man today. No doubt that there has been technological advancement and it will be written in history books as an amazing achievement for the next generations to read, but they should also consider the fact that the mentality of the people has seldom changed thought the course of history.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 250, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: It
...m the people who lived in earlier times.It can be inferred that the lives of peopl...
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Line 2, column 64, Rule ID: DURING_THE_COURSE_OF[1]
Message: Use simply 'during'.
Suggestion: during
...human race as undergone several changes during the course of history, the psycological aspect has re...
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Line 2, column 169, Rule ID: BASIC_FUNDAMENTALS[1]
Message: Use simply 'necessities'.
Suggestion: necessities
... more or less the same. Even today, the basic necessities of mankind, food, clothing and shelter ...
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Line 2, column 377, Rule ID: BASIC_FUNDAMENTALS[1]
Message: Use simply 'necessities'.
Suggestion: necessities
... respective jobs in order to earn these basic necessities for their families. Same is the case to...
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Line 2, column 503, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: and
...work in a field, we work in skyscrapers and and glass buildings. But the motive remains...
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Line 3, column 54, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...the main purpose of studying history is the learn from our mistakes and not repeat them a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, look, so, no doubt, of course, in my opinion, more or less
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1794.0 2235.4752809 80% => OK
No of words: 372.0 442.535393258 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82258064516 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5336788015 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 215.323595506 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588709677419 0.4932671777 119% => OK
syllable_count: 563.4 704.065955056 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.3409086996 60.3974514979 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.6666666667 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6666666667 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.77777777778 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223489562851 0.243740707755 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0507937060363 0.0831039109588 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0915209915379 0.0758088955206 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133847564284 0.150359130593 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.131142580465 0.0667264976115 197% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 100.480337079 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.