Knowledge is power and knowledge is often the result of time and experience. The present is not a bubble within the timeline of existence but instead a continuation of what has occurred the previous day and centuries, even millions of year prior. This continuity makes for a seamless timeline where the present has resulted from the past. It is misguided to state that knowledge from the past can not help people make important decisions today and this can be seen on an individual level as well as societal level when we look at such things as science, history and day to day life.
Science, specifically the field of of medicine and pharmacy directly serves to undermine the sentiment that knowledge of the past does not help people make important decisions today. In the mid 20th century, there was a medicine that was highly prescribed to expecting mothers who were experiencing morning sickness. Unfortunately, this medicine had devastating effects on the offspring where there body parts were often misshapen and parts of the brain were not properly developed. Since then, they discontinued prescribing this medicine of course but the implications is long lasting. Because of this past occurrence, we know today that the chemical make up of this form of medicine has deleterious effects on human. The past is allowing us to make both informed and important decisions about things to strive for as well as things to avoid.
Additionally, when we explore this sentiment within a historical context we can look at the Great Depression. During this time, banks were giving out an unprecedented number of loans that they could not support, a relatively new practice during the time. This lead to an absolute upheaval of the American society at such a vulnerable time in between world wars. Fortunately, America has learned from the mistakes of the 1920s and better systems are in place to protect against a detrimental event like that occurring again. Important financial decisions today are made with the thoughts and knowledge of the possible adverse consequences that have been seen in the past.
Humans are learners and as we go through life we learn from our experiences and most rational individuals are able to make important decisions usually by employing knowledge they gained from their own past. For instance, a person that knows they are not the most financially responsible person based off of the time they defaulted on a car loan. As a result, they use this past experience as grounds to make more financially sensible decisions in the future.
Conversely, there are times where the past can serve to create a limited scope leading to a narrow view when making important decisions. An example of this is in America, people of different races were not able to marry until the mid 20th century. This was supported by a precedent that was developed in the past. However, in this example , the past was used in a way to continue an unjust practice. The past is best when used justly to aid in making important decisions.
In conclusion, the advances that we hold dear to us in society are guided by the past and the past helps to drive change in the present and future. We can look back on the past and see what went right and what went wrong to help find the best course of action when dealing with the problems of today.
- Claim: Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.Reason: The world today is significantly more complex than it was even in the relatively recent past.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or 66
- Governments should offer college and university education free of charge to all students.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In devel 66
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, however, if, look, so, then, well, for instance, in conclusion, of course, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 100.0 58.6224719101 171% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2781.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 570.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87894736842 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88617158649 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68936411176 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468421052632 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 873.0 704.065955056 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.5933840893 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.24 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.6 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 7.80617977528 154% => 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: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225866873589 0.243740707755 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0717468968711 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.057484798767 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126676620525 0.150359130593 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0320337056882 0.0667264976115 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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