Even in modern times, some historians still study history from a colonial perspective. They study the Eastern history as an exotic jewelry, interpreting Eastern lifestyles from a Western angle, and their approach is Orientalism. They study women's history as a minor form of human history. As Simone de Bouvoir writes, "woman are always the other". Therefore, to dismiss the condescending historical perspective that historians enforce on human beings in the past, the most important benefit of studying history should be to prevent people from thinking that all human beings, no matter past or present, are the same. Emphasizing the similarity of humanity throughout history will only cause people to impose even more bias on individuals from the past.
History should focus on faithfully documenting events from the past, instead of haphazardly enforcing interpretation and empathy, which eliminates the opportunity for people to learn from a new mindset and absorb lessons from history. History, unlike literature or cultural studies, is an objective study of events that have happened. Historians connect the events together into a catalog by logically deducing and making transitions. They try their best not to empathize too much with the people in the past, or they will blur the objective nature of the history study. Moreover, they will also impose unnecessary interpretations on people's decisions in the past. In this way, historians only repeat the logic of themselves over and over throughout history; they will never learn anything new from history. As a Chinese history philosopher once said, "history is a girl disposed to make up by others". If we let history motivate us to understand and empathize too much with people from the past, then history becomes only a fiction instead of a serious study.
The main benefit of the study of history should instead be letting scholars expand their horizon, getting in touch with ore aspects of the world and thus becoming a more understanding and tolerant person. History, rather than emphasizing the similarities among human beings, points out the infinitely different perspectives that humans have. History gives us the perspective of the tyrant Napolean, making us aware that such a tyrant can arise from a normal little boy who is simply pugnacious in minor disputes. History also gives us the example of Maria, who is a nun that devoted her entire life to helping people. Studying history doesn't require us to find out the similarities between ourselves and these historical figures. It asks us to expand our recognition of the world and understand that more changes than we can ever imagine will likely happen in the uncertain world. Therefore, we should be prepared to embrace more possibilities and tackle more challenges.
Admittedly, certain benefits exist if we know that we are not much different from people in the past. We will develop our empathetic skill and a more profound understanding of the humanity. However, this can dangerously lead us to misinterpreting people's behavior from the past. Also, although we may be able to avoid some mistakes by recognizing ourselves as similar figures in the past, we cannot learn significant lessons from history, as we only assume that accidents will happen in the permanently same logic.
In a word, we will not be able to truly learn and become flexible if we reckon people in the past to be similar with us through studying history. History teaches us a more diverse and colorful perspective. It warns us against presuming logic and tells us to embrace more.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 513, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...is simply pugnacious in minor disputes. History also gives us the example of Maria, who...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 635, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ife to helping people. Studying history doesnt require us to find out the similarities...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, then, therefore, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 92.0 58.6224719101 157% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 12.9106741573 23% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3021.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 580.0 442.535393258 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20862068966 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90746259869 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88485476918 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 280.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48275862069 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 971.1 704.065955056 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.6556837433 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.892857143 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7142857143 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.35714285714 5.21951772744 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21346431814 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0659613092703 0.0831039109588 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0489635049762 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128837651207 0.150359130593 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.042927868064 0.0667264976115 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 154.0 100.480337079 153% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 513, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...is simply pugnacious in minor disputes. History also gives us the example of Maria, who...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 635, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ife to helping people. Studying history doesnt require us to find out the similarities...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, then, therefore, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 92.0 58.6224719101 157% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 12.9106741573 23% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3021.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 580.0 442.535393258 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20862068966 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90746259869 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88485476918 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 280.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48275862069 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 971.1 704.065955056 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.6556837433 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.892857143 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7142857143 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.35714285714 5.21951772744 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21346431814 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0659613092703 0.0831039109588 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0489635049762 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128837651207 0.150359130593 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.042927868064 0.0667264976115 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 154.0 100.480337079 153% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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.