Some people believe that studying history is very important and we must study the past to understand the present Others say that it is useless and should not be studied at all Discuss both views and give your own opinion

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Some people believe that studying history is very important and we must study the past to understand the present. Others say that it is useless and should not be studied at all.

Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

The importance of learning about our collective past as humans has been often debated in the academic circles. Some people tend to believe that it is an utter waste of time, while still there are others who are of the view that the history is our best teacher. The essay discusses both school of thoughts and presents a couple of arguments in favor of the latter opinion.

The study of history is not only important but it is necessary. We as humans can learn from the mistakes committed in the past and not repeat them. Case in point is the disaster at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. The meltdown of the reactor led to many deaths and caused many more to live with permanent mutations for the rest of their lives. Today, most of the history classes teach a lesson about that incident and this has helped keep the memory of that alive in the public memory. As a result, many governments have either completely banned nuclear power plants or have at least undertaken severe precautionary measures. Hence, I too agree that study of history is indeed very important.

The other school of thought argues that educating students about the history is useless and a waste of time. They point to the fact that we cannot change what has happened in the past and thus we should not spend our time in learning about the history. What they are essentially saying is that the history never repeats itself. I completely disagree with this viewpoint as history does repeat itself. For example, the two world wars, which decimated most of the Western Europe, are a testament to not learning from the history.

In conclusion, students should definitely be taught about the historical events as it makes them aware of successes and failures of the past generations. This will help them avoid the mistakes and build on the victories of the past.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 64, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[8]
Message: The adverb 'often' is usually put between 'has' and 'been'.
Suggestion: has often been
...ing about our collective past as humans has been often debated in the academic circles. Some p...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, so, still, thus, while, at least, for example, in conclusion, as a result

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1531.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 321.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76947040498 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42577330394 2.80592935109 86% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 176.041082164 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548286604361 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 475.2 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.5627567309 49.4020404114 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.0588235294 106.682146367 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8823529412 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06120827912 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.25239169696 0.244688304435 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.074020865343 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0662208483269 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129792198247 0.151304729494 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.04603306644 0.056905535591 81% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 13.0946893788 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.4159519038 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 78.4519038076 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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