Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
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.
Learning by mistakes is often considered to be one of the most important ways of acquiring practical knowledge. Humans are certainly capable of analyzing the reasons behind the previous failure and taking into account this information. However, there are certain doubts that people actually do it, and they are exacerbated in the case when the mistake was made not be the person themselves. While I believe that learning by mistakes may provide us with valuable warning and advice, I doubt that it is the universal decision-making tool for many people.
To start with, research in social psychology tells us that people are reluctant to take into account the experience of other people. A number of experiments showed that people don't place the same importance in mistakes of other people, they treat it essentially as facts from fictional novels, not like something that can be relevant to their lives. This is why people continue doing the same mistakes every generation. For example, young people tend to believe that their first love will last forever or that they don't need to worry too much about healthy lifestyle. The example of many older people including their own parents doesn't have a pronounced effect in most cases. In general, people are not wise enough to incorporate experience of others.
Moreover, people are often convinced that 'this time is different'. For example, it may be illustrated by a long history of financial bubbles and crashes. The first cases of this phenomena predate the 19th century; every couple of decades a massive crash of international significance occurs. However, even when people see that a certain asset is overpriced, they continue to invest in it, and mass media continue to claim that this time the price is actually sound. The recent bitcoin boom had a very similar precedence, which occurred in early 2000s, when the Internet was actively developing and people invested aboundantly into everything relevant to this new technology. It was called 'dotcom bubble', and it crushed. Bitcoin also depreciated significantly in the last year and many people who invested in it when it was expensive lost their money. It was perfectly possible to predict this based on the history, and yet the crash happened. One more consideration to take into account is that sometimes situation in fact differ, and we cannot extrapolate past experience on the future. It this case blindly following advices of ancestors may be not the best course of action.
To sum up, while past can provide us with valuable knowledge about any aspect of life, most people tend to ignore this knowledge, and the reasons for that lie in human psychology. Learning by past mistakes may be helpful in many situations, but in practice people are rarely use this opportunity.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, while, for example, in fact, in general, in most cases, to start with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 33.0505617978 148% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2332.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 459.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08061002179 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62863751936 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71750492069 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533769063181 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 750.6 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.7024367483 60.3974514979 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.0 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8636363636 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.36363636364 5.21951772744 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.1284902441 0.243740707755 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0372835743292 0.0831039109588 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0288550300972 0.0758088955206 38% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0883054780893 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0211155408556 0.0667264976115 32% => 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: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 100.480337079 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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