Some people think history has nothing or little to tell us, but others think that studying the past can help us better understand the present. Do you agree or disagree?
Opinions vary on whether learning about our ancestors has any value for us contemporaries. While it may true that every generation must be free to act for itself, knowing historical precedents, I believe, is essential because a nation cannot thrive unless its people learn from their past mistakes.
Indeed, our history is a circle of events that occur in every age, whether it is a war, an industrial revolution, or the act of xenophobia. It therefore would be unwise to overlook the fact that the humankind faced the same problems and issues in its past as it comes across in its present. Nor would it be prudent to ignore the circumstances under which happened these events. These circumstances are continually changing, and as the government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it. What may be thought right and found convenient in one age may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another.
Nevertheless, history is a mandatory subject at schools and universities and is such for a good reason. A proverb says, ‘A tree cannot stand without its roots,’ which seems such obvious wisdom, a well-worn cliche in our era in which everything truly insightful has already been said. But all cliches derive their endurance from their truth, and ancestors who coined this adage were sending a clear and powerful message to their descendants: a people cannot flourish without their life-giving foundations in the past. The ties between those who came before and those who live now must be maintained and nurtured if a people is to survive.
Let’s stick with the example of historical mistakes made by national leaders. Donald Trump, the former US president, did not appreciate history and promulgated laws against legal and illegal immigrants. After years of his policy, the Congress, the Senate, and the nation have encountered dire problems and limitations of this policy both literally and figuratively. The agricultural sector lost cheap workforce from Latin America; companies from the IT area could not afford engineers and high-tech specialists from Eastern Europe. Had Trump considered historical record of similar issues, their causes and, even more importantly, their effects, the American economy would not have suffered as it did.
Overall, learning about our past can help us develop a thoughtful and critical mind. As we endeavor to understand why things happened in the past, we can make more informed decisions in our present-day life.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 446, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'IT'?
Suggestion: the; IT
...orce from Latin America; companies from the IT area could not afford engineers and hig...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, look, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, well, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 13.8261648746 159% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 43.0788530466 100% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2101.0 1977.66487455 106% => OK
No of words: 411.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11192214112 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80460462334 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608272506083 0.524837075471 116% => OK
syllable_count: 648.0 618.680645161 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4185494016 48.9658058833 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.722222222 100.406767564 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8333333333 20.6045352989 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.33333333333 5.45110844103 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.107216217316 0.236089414692 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0341547184322 0.076458572812 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0444718583902 0.0737576698707 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0681859961219 0.150856017488 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0553616121004 0.0645574589148 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 11.7677419355 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 58.1214874552 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 10.9000537634 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.15 8.01818996416 114% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 86.8835125448 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.