You should spend about 40 minutes on this task Learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present To what extent do you agree or disagree Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or e

Nowadays, it is widely argued whether people can benefit from learning about the past, or if, due to the huge technological advances, we should only focus on the future, and not waste any time taking trips down memory lane. In my opinion, I absolutely disagree with the notion that the past has nothing to teach us for the reasons that I mention below.

First of all, both history teachers and international relations analysts agree on that history repeats itself. Nations have, as people do, ambitions and inspirations, which always cause conflicts and wars, especially, among neighbour countries. For example, Greece and Turkey from 1821 until today have declared war to each other four times. Now, both countries have marched their fleets towards the southeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea and try to state their claim with respect to the the exploitation of hydrocarbons. Looking back at their common history, is a useful tool to understand that they have been at eachother's throats to many times, and maybe they should seek a more diplomatic approach, in order to solve their differences.

In regard to people as individuals, I believe that it is quite beneficial to educate ourselves from other people's lives and mistakes. No matter our financial and technological status or the time that we live in, we shall always share the same flaws of character that our parents and grandparents had. Recent surveys indicate that family disputes repeat themselves through time. Speaking from personal experience, my parents took a divorce, when I was very little. However, I did not ignore this incident nor I considered it as something trivial. Through the years I tried to analyze their behavior, in order to make sure that, when I get married, I will not repeat the same mistakes my parents did.

To sum up, I totally disagree with the above-mentioned statement, and I belive that learning from the past can help us both at international and personal level.

Votes
Average: 8.9 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 488, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...ry to state their claim with respect to the the exploitation of hydrocarbons. Looking b...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 488, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...ry to state their claim with respect to the the exploitation of hydrocarbons. Looking b...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, look, may, so, for example, first of all, in my opinion, in regard to, to sum up, with respect to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 13.1623246493 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 24.0651302605 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1643.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 325.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05538461538 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78230078049 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.633846153846 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 505.8 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.8716043063 49.4020404114 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.357142857 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2142857143 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.35714285714 7.06120827912 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.13436620537 0.244688304435 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.041254017033 0.084324248473 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0421091846659 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0884989398729 0.151304729494 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0532434534574 0.056905535591 94% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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