The main benefit of the study of history is to dispel the illusion that people living now are significantly different from people who lived in earlier times.
History is a broad subject with a wide range of scope. It encompasses the study of prehistory, civilizations, agricultural, ancient humans as well as medieval, modern and post modern period. In short, history is the study of the past. It is the detailed analysis of the events that occured in the past, gathered from various evidences. And history itself proves that humans have changed significantly throughout the period of human history. Thus the claim that the benefit of sthe study of history is to dispel the illusion that people living now are significantly different from people who lived in earlier times has some serious flaws and I do not agree with it.
Pre-historic homo sapiens were biologically different than modern humans. Humans lived in caves and were predominantly hunter gatherers. With the advent of agricultural revolution, civilizations came into existence. We started raising domestic animals instead of hunting them for food. Hence food was cultivated in form of crops and fruits. This shows how humans have developed gradually over the course of history. Today, we are living in the age of technology, where we can send messages to people hundreds of kilometers far, with a single click on the mobile phone. If a hunter-gatherer from 10000 years ago were to travel to the present time, he would be perplexed seeing the world around him. This is a significant evidence showing how much we have changed and progressed.
Up until 50-100 years ago, people were indulged in world domination and military warfare. We have encountered two brutal world wars, which lead to a large scale destruction of lives, property and natural resources, merely 80 years ago. But we learnt from our history. We learnt that only peace and cooperation can lead us to a better and prosperous world. We are becoming more aware about our environment and non renewable natural resources. This shows how much we have changed. Today, we live in a world which is, although not perfect, but the most peaceful period in human history.
Apart from this, technology has developed at a tremendous rate due to the rise of industrial revolution. 500 years ago, technological marvels such as bulb, telephones, mobiles, television, internet and other inventions were seeming impossible to achieve. But today these have become the basic requirements.
Then why do we study history? The answer to this question lies in history itself. It is because of the unending human nature of curiosity. We are facsinated about learning things which happened in the past, how they changed the course of history and how are they influencing our lives today. We are curious about history because it is significantly different from what we observe today. This inherent difference, is what makes the study of history interesting. Knowledge of history can help us detect and remedy our past mistakes. A constant method of trial and error until we reach at the correct solution. History is also important in the context of preservation of the record of human civilization and achievements. A record, which will help the future generation to know and learn from the past events and improvise whereever possible. Thus, to say that the main aim of history is to highlight the similarity between past and present, is a completely incorrect statement, and goes against the basic concept of the study of history.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, so, then, thus, well, apart from, in short, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 83.0 58.6224719101 142% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2839.0 2235.4752809 127% => OK
No of words: 555.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11531531532 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85370353223 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83578075021 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 298.0 215.323595506 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536936936937 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 899.1 704.065955056 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 36.0 20.2370786517 178% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.17210833 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.8611111111 118.986275619 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.4166666667 23.4991977007 66% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.36111111111 5.21951772744 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 18.0 4.83258426966 372% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266458682048 0.243740707755 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0576622936698 0.0831039109588 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103005941825 0.0758088955206 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149584623595 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.141410669733 0.0667264976115 212% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 48.8420337079 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.12 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 147.0 100.480337079 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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.