Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership 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 s

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Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.
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.

The statement claims that understanding the past is futile to those in current positions of leadership. While there may rarely be the same condition, it is always worth looking back at the past to seek inspiration.

A knowledge of history offers insurance against sudden shocks. Incidents do not come out of the clear blue sky. To illustrate, while most of the countries in the world suffer from the outbreak of coronavirus, a small island country, Taiwan, is known for its quick reaction to the virus. Taiwan has once been hamstrung by the pandemic of SARS before. So this time, the government was cautious and managed to prevent the pandemic beforehand. Thus, Taiwan has a record of over 200 consecutive days without a locally transmitted case of the disease. The government of Taiwan has successfully controlled the virus because of understanding the past.

Further, history is a great teacher to understand the root of a culture and its people. A leader is expected to respond to the values of people if he or she aims to be a successful and equipped leader. Understanding the past gives an in-depth comprehension of the strong values of people and their thinking. For instance, when consulting firms often play the role of leading revolution in clients' organizations at any scale. Thus, without understanding the past and how it forms the value of the company, it is impossible to lead the clients to change.

Finally, the past serves as stepping stones to more significant accomplishment as it has gems of work and learning that can be leveraged to achieve more extraordinary results. "I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" said Newton. The past experiences also are of paramount importance to researchers in the science field. With the previous experiments conducted by predecessors, scientists do not have to start everything from scratch, thus able to make breakthroughs on the basis.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes," as Mark Twain said. Although any kind of prediction in this volatile environment will be shot through with uncertainty, history serves as a great teacher to tell us the possible outcome in the future.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 272, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
...ulders of giants' said Newton. The past experiences also are of paramount importance to res...
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Line 7, column 519, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ble to make breakthroughs on the basis. 'History doesnt repeat itself, but ...
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Line 9, column 15, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...roughs on the basis. 'History doesnt repeat itself, but it often rhymes,&apo...
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Line 9, column 56, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
...oesnt repeat itself, but it often rhymes,' as Mark Twain said. Although any kind ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, look, may, so, thus, while, for instance, kind of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.3162921348 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1849.0 2235.4752809 83% => OK
No of words: 361.0 442.535393258 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12188365651 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08325306445 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.598337950139 0.4932671777 121% => OK
syllable_count: 555.3 704.065955056 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.87560169 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.45 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.05 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.65 5.21951772744 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.102090997742 0.243740707755 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0321774978797 0.0831039109588 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0640908943416 0.0758088955206 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0616176381739 0.150359130593 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0594456304128 0.0667264976115 89% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => 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: 8.77 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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