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.
The author raises a controversial issue of whether teaching history to students is beneficial for them for making future decisions or just futile. Indisputably, the world is more complex now and is becoming more as time passes. Nevertheless, one cannot just deny history or state the historical events which took place useless. These events which occurred in the history signify various mistakes and consequences of the decisions taken at that time although at a much simpler level, they still help in avoiding those same mistakes for future generations. Hence, I generally disagree with the opinion that knowing past won't allow us taking more rational decisions today.
First of all, what is history? It is a set of chronological events which has shaped the current world in which we live. Hence history gives us great insight on why some policies exist in the government or an organization or how some of the policies came into existence. Hence in such scenarios in the case of modifying policies, the reason and purpose of those policies need to determined which can be known from history. In such circumstances our decisions will be affected if we knew the past scenarios and conditions under which the policies were generated so that we don't change the policy in such a way that it might defeat its own purpose.
Also, knowing the past can also avoid us repeating the same mistakes again which were committed in the past by our ancestors which will lead better societal structure. For example, most of the countries have studied seriously the main roots of World War II and several have signed treaties with other countries as well as international organizations such as UN with a mission to avoid such catastrophic events which occurred in the past. Hence history not only helps in avoiding us taking wrong decisions but also helps us in taking some other novel decisions which help us in protecting our future.
On the other hand, some may argue that the world has become more complex because of which the information related to past is not at all useful. The events and decisions which took place in the past has only shaped the world to become a better place which is more complex than the previous one. Hence if any changes are needed to be reflected in the present world one might need to analyze the past for questions such as why such changes weren't adopted in past and why this change has emerged now? Only by answering such questions the decision to implement the change can be made and such answers can only be found from the "past".
In conclusion, History is the most important thing that humans possess now as means to take decisions for future or design new policies for their future generations.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, well, for example, in conclusion, such as, as well as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2265.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 466.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86051502146 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64618479453 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62766904067 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478540772532 0.4932671777 97% => OK
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: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.661815047 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.833333333 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8888888889 23.4991977007 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.05555555556 5.21951772744 154% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 7.80617977528 128% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212602389976 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0734796559095 0.0831039109588 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0604257735642 0.0758088955206 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1140271117 0.150359130593 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0620133504288 0.0667264976115 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.1392134831 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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