Claim Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today Reason The world today is significantly more complex than it was even in the relatively recent past Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or di

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Claim: Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.

Reason: The world today is significantly more complex than it was even in the relatively recent past.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.

To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.

A persons decisions are based on their past experiences, one cannot remove deny the past's influence in making present decisions. However, The prompt suggests that the past cannot help in making the current important decisions. I mostly disagree with the prompt for the following two reasons.

Firstly, Decision making is a subjective phenomenon. The person who is assessing it would look in a biased manner with his past experiences in life. All the mistakes that we have committed in the past and the learning from them should be carried forward to make a informed and sound analysis. For Example, Dr. Thomas Alva Edision, the inventor of electric bulb, have failed in identifying the proper material for the filament. If he doesn't analyze the failure and not identify the materials that are devoid of the properties of previous metal, he wouldn't be able to reach the correct fit. Adding to this, If Wright brothers haven't learned from their past failures of different flight models, they wouldn't have come up with the current working model of plane. Therefore, we need to takeaway lessons from our past in finding a viable solution. Building upon the past observations would result in an accurate and prudent decision.

Secondly, Certain things in the world are will be changing in a slow pace if not immutable, which often goes covert. We have an inbuilt mechanism that adapts our body and mind gradually to the changes around us. For Example, Climate change is a much discussed topic since decades. Many environmentalists and activists have been verbose about it for long. But, Climate change isn't a sudden phenomenon, it takes years or decades to observe changes in the temperatures. Also, art kept evolving with time but the overall essence of it remained almost similar over the years. Hence, we need not take impulsive decisions thinking of a speculative scenarios which we never know when they would precipitate. Instead, we need to make a gradual and long-term sustainable decisions by not giving too much weight to complexity of the world.

Nevertheless, we might also have some scenarios where our previous memory doesn't hold a quantifiable significance. For Example, we know a little about the fields like quantum physics, artificial intelligence, etc.., if we try to fit them into the existing model of thought, we may not make a fruitful progress in their adaption. We should have a fresh and futuristic thoughts in identifying the potential use cases of such new technologies. Also, If we keep judging things with our past affinities, we tend to be opaque towards change and may end up in taking erroneous decisions that could seriously impact our future.

To conclude, One can definitely not completely eliminate the influence of our past on present decisions, be it positive or negative, we will have some kind of effect. But, stating that the influence is completely vitiating, is a debatable concept. Ever-changing convoluted world can't be a proper reason behind refuting the influence to make a decision.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 11, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'decision'.
Suggestion: decision
A persons decisions are based on their past experiences, on...
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Line 1, column 40, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
A persons decisions are based on their past experiences, one cannot remove deny the pasts influ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 96, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a biased manner" with adverb for "biased"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...e person who is assessing it would look in a biased manner with his past experiences in life. All ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 124, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
... would look in a biased manner with his past experiences in life. All the mistakes that we have ...
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Line 3, column 263, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... them should be carried forward to make a informed and sound analysis. For Exampl...
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Line 3, column 434, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...proper material for the filament. If he doesnt analyze the failure and not identify th...
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Line 3, column 548, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...of the properties of previous metal, he wouldnt be able to reach the correct fit. Addin...
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Line 3, column 625, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
...fit. Adding to this, If Wright brothers havent learned from their past failures of dif...
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Line 3, column 698, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...ilures of different flight models, they wouldnt have come up with the current working m...
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Line 5, column 190, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding changes'?
Suggestion: the surrounding changes
...t adapts our body and mind gradually to the changes around us. For Example, Climate change is a much ...
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Line 5, column 336, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ntalists and activists have been verbose about it for long. But, Climate change i...
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Line 5, column 377, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
... about it for long. But, Climate change isnt a sudden phenomenon, it takes years or ...
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Line 5, column 643, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'scenario'?
Suggestion: scenario
...ive decisions thinking of a speculative scenarios which we never know when they would pre...
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Line 7, column 75, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ome scenarios where our previous memory doesnt hold a quantifiable significance. For E...
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Line 7, column 213, Rule ID: DOUBLE_PUNCTUATION
Message: Two consecutive dots
Suggestion: .
...um physics, artificial intelligence, etc.., if we try to fit them into the existin...
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Line 7, column 291, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'fruitful progress'.
Suggestion: fruitful progress
...sting model of thought, we may not make a fruitful progress in their adaption. We should have a fre...
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Line 9, column 280, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...concept. Ever-changing convoluted world cant be a proper reason behind refuting the ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, for example, kind of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2540.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 498.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10040160643 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82049253541 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560240963855 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 790.2 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.208494517 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.6923076923 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1538461538 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.80769230769 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 17.0 7.80617977528 218% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.145340624319 0.243740707755 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0442637402346 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.046508256818 0.0758088955206 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0916892517469 0.150359130593 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0469079992603 0.0667264976115 70% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 100.480337079 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 11, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'decision'.
Suggestion: decision
A persons decisions are based on their past experiences, on...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 40, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
A persons decisions are based on their past experiences, one cannot remove deny the pasts influ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 96, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a biased manner" with adverb for "biased"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...e person who is assessing it would look in a biased manner with his past experiences in life. All ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 124, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
... would look in a biased manner with his past experiences in life. All the mistakes that we have ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 263, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... them should be carried forward to make a informed and sound analysis. For Exampl...
^
Line 3, column 434, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...proper material for the filament. If he doesnt analyze the failure and not identify th...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 548, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...of the properties of previous metal, he wouldnt be able to reach the correct fit. Addin...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 625, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
...fit. Adding to this, If Wright brothers havent learned from their past failures of dif...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 698, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...ilures of different flight models, they wouldnt have come up with the current working m...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 190, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding changes'?
Suggestion: the surrounding changes
...t adapts our body and mind gradually to the changes around us. For Example, Climate change is a much ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 336, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ntalists and activists have been verbose about it for long. But, Climate change i...
^^
Line 5, column 377, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
... about it for long. But, Climate change isnt a sudden phenomenon, it takes years or ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 643, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'scenario'?
Suggestion: scenario
...ive decisions thinking of a speculative scenarios which we never know when they would pre...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 75, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ome scenarios where our previous memory doesnt hold a quantifiable significance. For E...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 213, Rule ID: DOUBLE_PUNCTUATION
Message: Two consecutive dots
Suggestion: .
...um physics, artificial intelligence, etc.., if we try to fit them into the existin...
^^
Line 7, column 291, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'fruitful progress'.
Suggestion: fruitful progress
...sting model of thought, we may not make a fruitful progress in their adaption. We should have a fre...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 280, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...concept. Ever-changing convoluted world cant be a proper reason behind refuting the ...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, for example, kind of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2540.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 498.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10040160643 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82049253541 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560240963855 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 790.2 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.208494517 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.6923076923 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1538461538 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.80769230769 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 17.0 7.80617977528 218% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.145340624319 0.243740707755 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0442637402346 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.046508256818 0.0758088955206 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0916892517469 0.150359130593 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0469079992603 0.0667264976115 70% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 100.480337079 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.