57.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 speaker asserts that the benefit of studying history is to dispel the illusion that people living now are totally different from people who lived in earlier times. Admittedly, there are differences between people living now and living in the past, yet there are more similarities we all share.
Human who whether living in the past or living in modern times have same human nature. For example, when I read the book Pride and Prejudice, I found that Mr Darcy is so familiar to me. There are also people surrounding me like him, in high social status, well-educated, rich and disdaining people in lower class. People are same all the time. People drinking wine in luxurious restaurant dismiss those who drink beer in little bar, and people eating foie gras always dismiss people ordering hamburgers. As one person step into higher social stratum, he or she will think themselves as elitistic and thus despise other people.
In addition, there are always similar themes of novels from 19th century to now - the fear of loneliness and the request for idealistic way of life. For instance, the protagonist in the book the Outsider is alien to common people. He is disinterested and overlook ethics and moral principles, and cannot be understood by most people. Just like the outsider in the book of 1950s, the hero in a movie called We Are Little Zombies of 2019 is also a outsider who lost his parents in a accident but could not feel sadness. This kind of indifference and loneliness cannot disappear because of time or the development of technology. Also, take the book The Moon and Sixpence as an example. The protagonist in the book quit his coveted job and leave his family to pursue his dream of becoming a painter. The pursue of idealistic way of life does not only exist in books of 20th century but also exit in movies in the 2000s. The Dreamers, for instance, portrayed a couple of twin having innocent but pure pursuit for liberty and sincerity. In conclusion, no matter how our living style is changing, we human being always face same problems and same dilemma.
In my opinion, the most important benefit to learn history is to establish your own identity. Identity is very crucial for both country and person. We are all like Sisyphus who spent his entire life trying to push the stone to the top of the hill but failed all the time. The life is meaningless, but we have to live after all for our own uniqueness - the thing that differentiate yourself from the others, and identity is exactly what makes you unique and thus, is what people are trying to find. Through studying history, people can have more understanding of what happened to their ancestors - the glorious past and the miserable suffers. People feel proud by reading the achievements made by ancient people, and feel sympathetic by reading those plagues and slaughters, and thus people begin to know where are they from and who are they. It seems like although surrounded by strangers with poker faces, we all belong to a group, or maybe one ancestor hundreds of years ago, and we are not alone anymore.
In a nutshell, human all have same human nature and face similar troubles in the historical long river, and the reason why we learn history is to find our own identity.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, so, thus, well, after all, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, kind of, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 35.0 14.8657303371 235% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2706.0 2235.4752809 121% => OK
No of words: 566.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78091872792 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87757670434 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53561825382 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 292.0 215.323595506 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515901060071 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 852.3 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 10.0 1.77640449438 563% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.5856830843 60.3974514979 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.076923077 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7692307692 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.21951772744 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225173000941 0.243740707755 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0604838227119 0.0831039109588 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101070813444 0.0758088955206 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153463208114 0.150359130593 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.1509911435 0.0667264976115 226% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.1392134831 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 12.1639044944 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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