whether solving the problems needs understand the past?

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topic：To solve the problems present and future, is it necessary to understand the past? Use specific reasons and examples in your explanation.

Does solving problems present and future necessitate understanding the past? There are thousand Hamlets in thousand people's eyes. Frankly, I would agree with the author's general assertion that learning the past is an essential way to solve problems present and future. Some reasons will be shown as follows.

First, learning the past can help people solve present or future problem more effective. If there was a same or similar problem in the past and coincidently, if people know how past people solve such problem, they can use this knowledge to solve the present problems. If the solution of present problems is based on past experience, such problems can be solved quickly and exactly.

Second, learning past can help people avoid unnecessary trouble. Similar to the first reason mentioned above, if people are familiar with the trouble, the past people met when they solved the problem, they can improve the method of present problem to avoid such trouble.

Now, more and more educators were aware the importance of learning past. So, many high schools and universities have offered the history course since several years ago. Such course may help their students become more competent than other students graduated from those schools which did not offer history course.

Third, from the business point of view, learning past can help a corporation reduce its cost, avoid some failure and become more productive. Let me take CD&D, one of biggest underwear company in China, as an example. CD&D recorded almost every problem it and its competitive company met since nine years ago. After doing that, the CD&D provided a program that required its employees to learn such knowledge regularly. By doing so, the average time of its employees to solve problem has reduced sharply and at the same time, its cost has also reduced due to improved method. What's more, it helps CD&D avoid some catastrophic failures which made by its competitive company. Such core competency leads CD&D gradual becoming a biggest company.

One may argue that learning the past will restrict people's creativity, because people may use past method to solve the problem and need not to consider a new method. To give the devil his due, it sometimes may be true; however, this issue may overestimate the effect of this problem and overlook some important factors which can avoid such problem. Leaning past means that recent solution could use past experience to improve the solution of the same problem. So it not use past method directly.

In sum, so complex and so controversial is this issue that many people will have different views due to their respective angles. I would prefer that solving present and future problem need understand the past because learning past can make people more effective and avoid unnecessary trouble and can help company reduce its cost, avoid some failure and become more productive.

Wait a minute! Where have I seen that metaphor before? In an essay on this forum! Where did you get it? Why in the world are you using it here?

I assume you are writing this for a TOEFL, IELTS, or similar exam. Here's my advice: Skip the metaphors. Answer simply, directly, and completely. In this essay, the CD&D example is very good but the whole essay is thrown off kilter by the strange reference to Hamlet in the introduction. If what you wanted to say is something similar to what you said in the conclusion, just say that.

EF_Simone

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It is me that use this metaphor before on this forum, however, I lost my user name and password ... T-T

umm~ This is an iBT essay .. and ..~~ I don't know this metaphor can be replaced by what...

I know this is going to sound bad, but I've never read Hamlet. What does having a thousand Hamlets in a thousand peoples' eyes mean?

And to avoid the ban-hammer,
I notice a lot of instances in which you use the word "past" without the article "the," as in "the past." Just using "past" makes it a modifier.

Example:


should be
Second, learning about the past can help people avoid unnecessary trouble.

your essay is very good but you have forget to write complete sence that make sense like i first paragraph you wrote essential way to solve problems present and future you should add of present and future,

Ah, and I told you then to quit using it. It does not work. It makes your essays sound strange and disjointed. I understand how it is to get attached to a metaphor but you simply must quit putting this one into almost every essay you write. If what you mean is that everyone has a different perspective, just say that.

EF_Simone
umm ~ I am afraid that if I say everyone has a different perspective directly, it looks like a simple duplication of last paragraph >"< ..

so... I think it is better to rewrite the introduction in other way..

by the way, is there any grammatical mistakes in my article except for something catalyst0435 mentioned?
I will appreciate if you can point them out
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catalyst0435
thanks a lot
I will pay attention to this error next time

In this sort of essay, your introduction and conclusion should say essentially the same thing, just in slightly different words.

EF_Simone
get it :)