Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.
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.
It is said that the past is a reflection of the future in the present time. One should always reflect on what has happened in the past to identify the mistakes and key takeaways so as to improve in the future. Although there are some people who believe that understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership, I strongly disagree with this statement for primarily three reasons.
Firstly, history is a great teacher as it is filled with incidents and anecdotes that can act as lessons for those who seek wisdom for the future. A lot of countries and their leaders have learnt immensely from their diplomatic accolades and pitfalls in the past, in order to shape the future of their states/countries. An example to support the statement would be to consider the ramifications of the disingenuous and faltering attack by the Afghans and other hostile tribes of Central Asia on South Asian countries, such as India. The ill-equipped and not so prepared armies of the attackers were unaware of the military strength of various provinces in India, which were strong enough to stand their ground in trying times. Under such trouncing of their troops, the Afghan leaders learnt from their mistakes of having poor strategies, poor equipments and smaller army, that led to their debacle. Hence by reflecting on the fallacies in the past, the Afghans managed to rectify their mistakes and were finally able to thread through the defences on the Indian provinces on the western front, thus enabling them to accomplish their long pending mission. Had the leaders not looked back at the past missions, they would not have learnt much from their mistakes and would have repeated the same mistakes again.
Further, it is also important to state that understanding of the past gives a deeper understanding of the roots of a culture and its people, and thus is expected of the leader to respond to the values of people if he/she aims to be a successful and equipped leader. Understanding the past gives an in-depth comprehension of the strong values of people and their thinking, and a similar benefit can be seen in the rich poetry and writing by various English writers and poets, whose emphasis on culture and rich values reflect dearly in the classics that surround us. People are impacted by literature and those who ingrain the past learnings of culture and morality in their writings create a long lasting impact, that can be realised in times to come.
Finally, looking at the past also acts as a stepping stones towards accomplishing something bigger as it has gems of work and learning that can be leveraged to achieve bigger and better results. People who do not reflect on the past always have to start from the scratch and do have a base to support them, unlike those who derive useful information from their past and experience and build on top of that to succeed. To illustrate this, we can think of a professional today such as a software engineer, who also learns mathematics at a considerable level. In accomlishing software solutions, the learnings from the past in mathematics helps engineers flex their analytical muscles and solve most problems as mathematics problems, which is a key tool in problem solving. Thus the software industry is highly impacted by people who understand their past and use that to derive useful results and implement the same to get better results.
Although it can be argued that diving too much into the past can have a negative impact as well as doing so can cloud a lot of decisions and ideas that are novel and can help people look at things differently, but doing so under a certain limit does not produce negative results as much as they do otherwise. Moreover, the trade off is in favor of understanding the past as there are more benefits that side effects of doing so. Thus understanding the past could be a good proposition to follow.
In conclusion, we can say that reflecting or understanding the past gives a more well rounded understanding of the present and helps people in positions of power to deal with situations in a better way.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, look, moreover, so, thus, well, as to, in conclusion, such as, as well as, on top of that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 33.0 14.8657303371 222% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 122.0 58.6224719101 208% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3423.0 2235.4752809 153% => OK
No of words: 707.0 442.535393258 160% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84158415842 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.15649799773 4.55969084622 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72329648327 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 319.0 215.323595506 148% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.451202263083 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1044.0 704.065955056 148% => 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: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 32.0 23.0359550562 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 60.9617140385 60.3974514979 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.590909091 118.986275619 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.1363636364 23.4991977007 137% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.18181818182 5.21951772744 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => 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: 0.140187642968 0.243740707755 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0509177907702 0.0831039109588 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0604667230121 0.0758088955206 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0948217575752 0.150359130593 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592388353868 0.0667264976115 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 14.1392134831 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 48.8420337079 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 162.0 100.480337079 161% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.2143820225 132% => 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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