The main benefit of the study of history is to dispel the illusion that people living now are significantly different from people who lived in earlier times.
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 supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The crux of the topic is that studying history dispels the illusion of people's or imagination that they are living in significantly different from people who lived in earlier times. I personally disagree with the statement for the following reasons and I am going to provide some epitome to bolster my stance.
First of all, history is generally viewed as a single overall topic but history has it's own classification, for example, archeology to study a place or a structure's history and history of science or history of the evolution of humankind. History teaches us to learn about the past and significant incidents or how far we have come from the earliest humans. The history not only describes the timeline of incidents but also told us about human characteristics and their living habits in a particular era.
History taught us to discern the different timeline and era and the living style of human in that particular era. For example, from archeological evidence, we knew that from the earliest civilization people living in small enclaves and in the later days they unify more to form a large society and build a city. We also know that people lived in the stone age, living differently from bronze age or there is myriad difference comparing to modern civilization. In the earlier civilization, for example, Egypt or Harappa taught us how they differ from other civilizations at that time and also their living quality and their believes and characteristics of the society. Learning the past history greatly helped us to apply those in our modern cities.
On the other hand, the history of science taught us assumptions had made in the past and the evolution of science. for example, Galileo to Newton to Hawkins how far the science, research, and innovation has come comparing to times when the humans started their civilization. History also gave us knowledge about the change of modernization of our medical science and from the discovery of penicillin to the modern medicines. from history, we also knew about the effect of war, from the experience of world wars we now circumscribed the conflicts and avoid the wars. So, it is not a delusion that we live in different conditions than the past living styles.
On the flip-side people might argue that it is the only illusion that we are different than our ancestor, we still fight to each other and made the same mistakes. We criticize and categorized people on race and ethnic groups. It might be true in some cases the world is getting better and comparing to the age where we lived under a kings rule we now live in a democracy. We might not be in perfect shape but we are getting better and from history or historians categorize our human civilization in different ears which are different from each other.
At the epilogue of the topic and from the above reasons I would say that history does not break illusions about the statement had made but the benefit of history is to discern different timeline and their significance and we learn and experience from them so that we should avoid past mistakes and make good use of the adoption of good side of earlier societies.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 155, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'structures'' or 'structure's'?
Suggestion: structures'; structure's
...ample, archeology to study a place or a structures history and history of science or histo...
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Line 3, column 623, Rule ID: BELIEVE_BELIEF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'beliefs' (noun) instead of believes (verb)?
Suggestion: beliefs
...and also their living quality and their believes and characteristics of the society. Lea...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: For
... the past and the evolution of science. for example, Galileo to Newton to Hawkins h...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: From
... of penicillin to the modern medicines. from history, we also knew about the effect ...
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Line 5, column 88, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
...the only illusion that we are different than our ancestor, we still fight to each ot...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, so, still, for example, first of all, in some cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 36.0 14.8657303371 242% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 82.0 58.6224719101 140% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 12.9106741573 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2607.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 539.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83673469388 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74975024142 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.428571428571 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 850.5 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.2076735848 60.3974514979 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.35 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.95 23.4991977007 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.6 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.290832415654 0.243740707755 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101964415829 0.0831039109588 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0958132046359 0.0758088955206 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18288149317 0.150359130593 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101319579324 0.0667264976115 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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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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.