Some people say that history offers no practical benefit to society while others claim that history teaches us to understand the present.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
People often opine that history has no particular significance to the current society, while others argue learning from our past can help us better understand the present. Though I agree with the fact that mistakes in the past has made us learn multiple lessons that can help the society as we move forward, I also believe digging too far into the past will only hinder the society in making strides to the future. The forthcoming paragraphs address similar views as well.
From the evolutionary phase, humanity has relied on the process of trial and error for existance, for which the study of history comes to aid. As humans, we have a history of rich socio-cultural importance, perticularly to analyze and understand the mistakes made in the past, which acts as a cautionary tale for people now. Moreover, it is often believed that history repeats in a regular pattern, thus understanding those pattern might help us dodge any detrimental disasters in future. A report by The New York Times states that scientists nowdays are predicting disasters, like hurricanes and floods, by studying the weather patterns from the previous years, which perfectly exemplifies how studying history is helping people understand the conditions at present.
Meanwhile, digging too deep into the history only hinders developments at present. People nowdays have a tendency to look up for inspiration for newer inventions from the items in the past; which are often not successful, leading to a waste of time and resources. Moreover, human history is tainted with the stories of religious hatred, discrimination, colourism and racism, which if dug up from the graves not only divides the society but can induce wars among the people, thus some part of the history must be forgotten.
In my opinion, the study of history has some positives as it helps us learn through past mistakes and move forward, while providing a source of inspiration for multiple discoveries, if explored into the depts might fracture the society into pieces and cause wars and riots among people. Thus, study of history in my opinion shound be handled with caution, as it has a plethora of pros but equal amount of cons.
In conclusion, knowledge of our history is a boon if taken as a source of inspiration and a tale of caution, but can hinder current strides in development when explored to its depts. Though, I believe history teaches us to understand the present in some aspects, it should not be deemed as a mantra to run the society.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 182, Rule ID: AGREE_WITH_THE_FACT[1]
Message: Use simply 'agree that'.
Suggestion: agree that
...better understand the present. Though I agree with the fact that mistakes in the past has made us learn ...
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Line 3, column 479, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...help us dodge any detrimental disasters in future. A report by The New York Times states ...
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Line 5, column 382, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...rimination, colourism and racism, which if dug up from the graves not only divides...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, moreover, so, thus, well, while, in conclusion, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 41.998997996 150% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2093.0 1615.20841683 130% => OK
No of words: 419.0 315.596192385 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99522673031 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75362436193 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 176.041082164 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505966587112 0.561755894193 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 654.3 506.74238477 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 20.2975951904 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.8044664277 49.4020404114 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.5 106.682146367 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.9285714286 20.7667163134 144% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85714285714 7.06120827912 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.26220283962 0.244688304435 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0992892171877 0.084324248473 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0607086708777 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156180086666 0.151304729494 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0198371634116 0.056905535591 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 13.0946893788 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 50.2224549098 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.1190380762 134% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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