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

Change is the only constant - this banal saying is highly misunderstood in its true sense. While one cannot deny that the world is constantly changing, we should not forget that it is doing so by building on the past. Every outcome of yesterday's decision is affecting our today and every decision that we take today is translated into our tomorrow. It is in this sense of ongoing additive or subtractive change, that I strongly disagree with the claim that knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.

As the world today continues to get more intertwined at a speed that has never happened in the history, one might argue that the decisions of the past cannot help us do true justice to quandaries of the present, that the yesterday's world was trivial and cannot serve as a good analogue, that the situation at hand is much more complicated than what we resolved a month ago. While we cannot deny the fact that every passing day makes our issues more and more complex, reinventing the wheel every day is simply a waste of time and effort. We can leverage our learnings from the past and take effective decisions for today in a more efficient manner, they're creating more favourable circumstances for success.

Knowing about the past can help us make better-informed decisions for today and can reduce our chances of failure. Though the world is changing, the underlying habits of humans continue to remain. In a nutshell, it is possible to preempt how people will plan or react in certain situations based on the historic learning. Modern surveillance agencies look for patterns that they have learnt from the past to uncover and thwart terrorist attacks much before they actually take place. Traders and investors rely on their knowledge of that domain to make profitable investments. People who lost their savings during the great recession of 2000s would be very diligent while deciding their current investments. Almost all companies rely on their experiences and those of their competitors in deciding their future strategies and their upcoming products. Governments use their historic understanding of their neighbours and allies to make new treaties and alliances.

Scientists use their learnings from existing studies to make meaningful strides in their domain at a much faster speed. Vaccines generally take 15-20 years to develop and the fastest vaccine ever made by man has been in 8 years. The vaccine for Covid-19, the pandemic that is staring us in the face right now, is being developed in a "fast track" manner and it draws significant learning from pre-existing knowledge and studies done on the SARs virus. Since the scientists were able to leverage their learnings from an analogous virus, the vaccine for Covid-19 is well on its way to becoming the fastest vaccine ever produced by mankind.

In conclusion, our learnings from the past can help us make effective and informed decisions. There will always be a certain part of decision making which will be based on the current issues at hand, but we cannot ignore the fact that we can and should leverage our learnings from the past in order to minimize our chances of failure.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 490, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...and more complex, reinventing the wheel everyday is simply a waste of time and effort. W...
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Line 5, column 178, Rule ID: CONTINUE_TO_REMAIN[1]
Message: Use simply 'remain'.
Suggestion: remain
...anging, the underlying habits of humans continue to remain the same. In a nutshell, it is possible...
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Line 7, column 333, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...e face right now, is being developed in a 'fast track' manner and it dr...
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Line 7, column 527, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...e able to leverage their learnings from a analogous virus, the vaccine for Covid-...
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Line 9, column 423, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'companies'' or 'company's'?
Suggestion: companies'; company's
...rimental move which can also damage the companies reputation. On the other hand, if the c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, if, look, may, so, well, while, in conclusion, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 68.0 33.0505617978 206% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 94.0 58.6224719101 160% => 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: 3423.0 2235.4752809 153% => OK
No of words: 695.0 442.535393258 157% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92517985612 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.13447686263 4.55969084622 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66643712783 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 324.0 215.323595506 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46618705036 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1044.9 704.065955056 148% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.9747199517 60.3974514979 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.653846154 118.986275619 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7307692308 23.4991977007 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.26923076923 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210368570037 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0596675928433 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0730568607141 0.0758088955206 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121448366495 0.150359130593 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0881196128624 0.0667264976115 132% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 160.0 100.480337079 159% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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