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.
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.
Basically, I partially agree with the statement that studying history can dispel the illusion that we people nowadays are different from people who lived in earlier times in terms of human nature such as greedy, selfish or kindness. However, regarding the living style, modern people truly live in a different way than the one people in earlier times have, which I will explain later in the following paragraph. Before we go further to discuss if I agree or disagree with the statement, we should be aware that the statement might have falsely limited the main benefit of studying history to one, while there are many other important benefits that studying history could provide.
The primary reason that I partially agree with it is that, in terms of the human mind, we are not that different from people in earlier times. All human has their own natures, no matter these characteristics are naturally born with or shaped by the environments. We can learn from history that thousand years ago, because of the greedy of dominating the world, the leaders of two empires would start wars in order to prove who is stronger and to expand their territory. In current society, out of the same reason - greedy of dominating the market, an enterprise could take any measure to merge the other enterprise in order to make most of its own profit. Therefore, it is not hard to tell that we are not different from the ancient people regarding human nature.
However, speaking of the living style that we have nowadays, it is totally dissimilar from what people have in earlier times. For instance, we now have smartphones that allow us to communicate immediately with others who are located a thousand miles away, while such a thing would be viewed as impossible in hundreds of years ago. We now have advanced vehicles such as electrical cars, air plants and even rockets to the outer spaces, while people have only horse carriages, wood boots in several years ago. As a result, through history, we would discover how different we live comparing to people several decades ago in terms of the material presented.
As I mentioned before, the statement falsely limited the main benefit of the study of history as a comparison of people in different eras. Nonetheless, the main benefit of studying history should be the numerous lessons learned. For example, the nuclear explosion in Russia (Chernobyl disaster) could remind us of the dangers of using nuclear for electricity; the horrible Black Plague caused millions of deaths in Europe could remind us of the importance of containment work. I believe that the various lesson-learned should be claimed as the main benefit of learning history as it would greatly prevent the human nowadays to make the same mistakes as the ancestors did.
In sum, learning the history could not only help us realize the similarity of modern and ancient people but also make us notice the advance of our material lives, most importantly, it taught us lots of lesson-learned and would avoid us repeating the mistakes that people in earlier days made.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 296, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a different way" with adverb for "different"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
... living style, modern people truly live in a different way than the one people in earlier times ha...
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Line 9, column 459, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'horsed'.
Suggestion: horsed
...he outer spaces, while people have only horse carriages, wood boots in several years ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, nonetheless, regarding, so, therefore, while, for example, for instance, speaking of, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2570.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 517.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97098646035 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76839952204 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61002504509 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47582205029 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 816.3 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 23.0359550562 130% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.998393452 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.176470588 118.986275619 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.4117647059 23.4991977007 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.64705882353 5.21951772744 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.338409924282 0.243740707755 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120905736162 0.0831039109588 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0971307599064 0.0758088955206 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185946658517 0.150359130593 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128575130323 0.0667264976115 193% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 14.1392134831 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 48.8420337079 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.14 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 100.480337079 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 11.8971910112 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.2143820225 125% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 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.