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 claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice shame on me. While some may argue that it is better to leave the past behind you, the past never leaves us. The old saying exhorts individuals to learn from past mistakes. It is clear that knowledge of our past can positively influence the choices we make today.
To begin, every individual is a sum of their past failures and successes. Through consideration of the past we can infer things that we did right and where we went wrong. Doing this enables us to repeat past successes and avoid mistakes that lead to different failures. For example, the famous and talented actor Nicolas Cage was at a point one of the highest paid actors in the movie industry. Cage was a wealthy man who eventually became bankrupt and insolvent because of mismanagement of his opulent resources. He could no longer pay his debts because he wasn’t landing big movie roles with fat paychecks. But through extreme hard-work he finally paid of his debts after a number of years. “ Debt free but not without learning a lot lessons ” as he stated during a live interview. Consequently, it is certain that his statement and hard learned life lessons will fill his many of family and friends with confidence in him managing his wealth wisely. The above example illustrates that we become better individuals when we learn from our past mistakes. The lessons learned influence us to make wiser decisions.
Further, knowledge of past history can serve to provide ample support to assist in making significant decisions. Perhaps the reason why many leaders today both at the national and global stage fail today could be because they ignored historical leaders or even leaders that are as close as their predecessors. Not only can current leaders learn from failures of past leaders, they could learn how historical figures solved problems in their time and use that knowledge to help solve their problems today. For instance, through history we learn that war should always be the last option on the table as it always leads to loss lives and properties. Consider the first world war, which could have been obviated through all out diplomacy. Millions of men, women and children died across a lot of countries. Every nation involved in the war suffered catastrophic losses and there really was no winner. We see that this sad history has influenced a lot leaders in the world today, they are concious in making desicions that do not lead to fightihg between nations and this in turn protects the lives of their citizens
Of course some might contend that staying in the past or holding on to the past only weigh us down and eventually serve as impediments to our progress as individuals. I believe this view point is narrow and not well thought through. While i agree that we shouldn’t hold to the negative things in our past as doing so can harm us emotionally. We should always learn for this negative things. How about successess ? Should we also neglect them ?. We must not, because they make good timestamps and remembering make us confident and do postive things we did before. The past should never be an barricade progress, rather, we must choose to let it propel us ever forward by learing fromt it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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... our past mistakes. The lessons learned influence us to make wiser decisions. Further,...
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...torical leaders or even leaders that are as close as their predecessors. Not only...
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...roperties. Consider the first world war, which could have been obviated through a...
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...row and not well thought through. While i agree that we shouldn’t hold to the neg...
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...we did before. The past should never be an barricade progress, rather, we must cho...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, if, may, really, so, well, while, for example, for instance, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 77.0 33.0505617978 233% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 82.0 58.6224719101 140% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2678.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 558.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79928315412 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86024933743 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51066856288 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 301.0 215.323595506 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539426523297 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 803.7 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 65.555032013 60.3974514979 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.2666666667 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.7 5.21951772744 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 5.13820224719 311% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.114749673076 0.243740707755 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0303299205789 0.0831039109588 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0285197800916 0.0758088955206 38% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0782456106606 0.150359130593 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0341772639688 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 48.8420337079 144% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 12.1743820225 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.