Claim: Though often considered an objective pursuit, learning about the historical past requires creativity.
Reason: Because we can never know the past directly, we must reconstruct it by imaginatively interpreting historical accounts, documents, and artifacts.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which the claim is based.
The claim expresses that studying history, although it might seem to be objective, relies on creativity. The reasoning behind this claim is that because history can not be studied directly, observers must interpret evidence by using their imaginationn power. I agree with the claim to the extent that learning about historical events requires a good deal of imagination. However, the reason, provided for the claim in the topic, is not very precise and there are some drawbacks in its' argument.
Whether learning about the historical past requires creativity or not, depends on the role of the person who wants to study history. This means that, as a historian, one has to be imaginative to study history, however, as an ordinary person who wants to learn about historical events by reading about them in history books, there is no need for creativity.
Historical events, especially distant ones, are sometimes not well-documented in reliable written sources. In some cases, astute historians have done the hard work by gathering evidence, documenting them, analyzing their validity, and presenting them to the reader. As a result, one who wants to learn about the past historiical events has an easy job by reading the written works of these historians. However, in some other cases, there is a dire shortage of reliable written works to learn about history. Therefore, the person who wants to find out about a particular event is forced to act as a historian, and this task surely requires creativity.
Studying distant and destroyed dynasties is one of the tasks that rely heavily on using creativity. One example is studying the remains of Perspolis, the capital of the Archemedian dynasty, located in south areas of Iran. Although these remains have been on the sight of people, for more than 2000 years, no one, even the locals, was aware that they are the remains of Perspolis which was set on fire by Alexander. It was merely two hundred years ago that a British historian came to analyze those remains, and by interpreting the findings and corroborating them with the records of Greek historians, he found out that those remains actually represents the legendary capital of one of the greatest empires ever ruled on earth.
In conclusion, when a person who wants to study history as a detective and historian, creativity serves as one of his most valuable assets. However, for someone who is simply interested in learning about historical events, reading the documented evidence serves the perspose and there seems to be no need for using imagination.
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.... One example is studying the remains of Perspolis, the capital of the Archemedia...
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..., was aware that they are the remains of Perspolis which was set on fire by Alexa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, however, so, therefore, well, as to, in conclusion, as a result, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => 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: 2148.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 422.0 442.535393258 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09004739336 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77275083022 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 215.323595506 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492890995261 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 689.4 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6140876052 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.352941176 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8235294118 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.17647058824 5.21951772744 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187153541664 0.243740707755 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0686498705708 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0617040882838 0.0758088955206 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117790673902 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0773317987102 0.0667264976115 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 100.480337079 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.