Some people think that history has nothing or little to tell us, but others think that studying the past can help us better understand the present. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

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People have different views about whether
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seless or
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useless, or
it plays an important role in our present time. While both ideas could be beneficial, I believe that the former idea has more advantages. On the one hand,
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has minimal things in order to offer which are quite fruitless.
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of all, nowadays experience is completely different with ancient time and people because they did not use to have cutting-edge technologies
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as laptop or computer.
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, those experiences could not nudge people into the right direction due to incompatibilities of between present and past technologies. Take politicians as an example; these d
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days, they
should manipulate people differently, and they should be aware of emerging technologies to know how to use propaganda in order to achieve their aims whereas people had not experienced
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matters yesteryears.
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, sometimes stories in the past like Arabian kings could be too negative role-models for teenagers because they learn about their ancestors who believed in multi-gamy. So, they think that they could follow in their footsteps leading to a chaos in the society and disputes between men and women.
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, some people may argue that they would be able to learn from
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about the chronicle of various things especially among nations.
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, by studying about the historical events between Iran and Saudi Arabia, people could p
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why there is always a friction between these two countries, so their authorities could learn how to handle
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issue.
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, I believe that other factors
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as policies and even social media could help countries’ governments to solve their problems, which shows the unimportance of knowing historical disputes between countries. In conclusion,
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might be educational for p
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people, but
it could be a negative symbol for young people, and from my point of view, the advent of modern technologies teaches us new ways to overcome our problems without knowing about our forefathers.

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Include an introduction and conclusion

A conclusion is essential for IELTS writing task 2. It is more important than most people realise. You will be penalised for missing a conclusion in your IELTS essay.

The easiest paragraph to write in an essay is the conclusion paragraph. This is because the paragraph mostly contains information that has already been presented in the essay – it is just the repetition of some information written in the introduction paragraph and supporting paragraphs.

The conclusion paragraph only has 3 sentences:

  • Summary
  • Restatement of thesis
  • Prediction or recommendation

Example:

To summarize, a robotic teacher does not have the necessary disciple to properly give instructions to students and actually works to retard the ability of a student to comprehend new lessons. Therefore, it is clear that the idea of running a classroom completely by a machine cannot be supported. After thorough analysis on this subject, it is predicted that the adverse effects of the debate over technology-driven teaching will always be greater than the positive effects, and because of this, classroom teachers will never be substituted for technology.

Start your conclusion with a linking phrase. Here are some examples:

  • In conclusion
  • To conclude
  • To summarize
  • Finally
  • In a nutshell
  • In general

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • insights
  • progression
  • values
  • beliefs
  • heritage
  • identity
  • applicable
  • biased
  • subjective
  • practical
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