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

The prompt suggests that understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership. I mostly disagree with the claim and will elaborate on the necessary points to defend my stance.

Firstly, understanding the past is crucial for leaders holding current positions of leadership in order to prevent history from repeating itself. For example, it is important for a leader to know the history of Hitler and the holocaust. In order to prevent this catastrauphic event from happening once again, it is important to know how the situation was solved. Leaders of today's world must know how the commanders before them came out on the winning side in order to know how to prepare for similar events that may occur in the future.

Secondly, aside from having knowledge about how our previous commander in cheif was able to stop Hitler, it is also important to know the reprocussions that our past leader left on Japan after dropping nuculear bombs. This may have ended tensions between the United States and Japan; however, this left a lasting peril on Japan's civilians for years afterwards. A study from Yale University showed that radiation was detectable on Japan for 5 years after the bombing. Our current leaders must know how destructive and inhumane this war tactic was on the innocent people of Japan in order to prevent this from occuring again.

Although, in contrast to my stance, it is true that those holding current positions of leadership don't have to deal with the same issues that occured in the past. However, history tends to repeat itself. In the past, Mongolia tried to take over the world using brute force with the military. An example seen in today's world is China's attempt to spread globalism by taking over neighboring countries that have fallen into an irrepayable debt. Thus, the necessary precautions must be taken to prevent leaders from trying to take over the globe from ever happening again.

In summary, although it is true that the leaders of today aren't facing the same issues that our commanders in the past had to deal with, knowledge of the past is paramount to prevent these horrible events from repeating themselves.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: don't
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Suggestion: aren't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, in contrast, in summary, in contrast to, it is true

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 14.8657303371 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1819.0 2235.4752809 81% => OK
No of words: 367.0 442.535393258 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95640326975 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56002054725 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 215.323595506 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.490463215259 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 553.5 704.065955056 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1737148739 60.3974514979 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.6875 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9375 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.25 5.21951772744 158% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.145629166908 0.243740707755 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0655663979829 0.0831039109588 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0842077456009 0.0758088955206 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107197520352 0.150359130593 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0773491784408 0.0667264976115 116% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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