Claim: The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models.Reason: Heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideals.

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Claim: The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models.
Reason: Heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideals.

The character of a society is a varied composition of the characters of the individuals that form a society. This character however is not necessarily equivalent to the character of heroes and role models that a society deems laudable. This equivalence is debatable as any society examined throughout this world consists of a vastly varied composition with varying idols, the perception of such role models may be critically flawed and even if the previous ideas are inherently flawed, it would be more accurate to say that the characteristics of role models are those that society aspire to.

Society, an ambiguous term in itself, comprises of wildy varying social classes, economic statuses and cultural groups. The probability that a singular society agrees that any woman or man and their character is their collective hero or role model is miniscule. Given the variability and tumultuous state of human existance, often a society may be in a factious state. An example of this would be during the Civil Rights Movement in America. During the Civil Rights Movement, the likes of Rosa Parks and Malcom Luther King Jr. would have been the heroes and role models for those advocating civil rights of African Americans. However given the immense opposition faced by them their characteristics of bravery and courage to stand up against the status quo would not have the ideals of the collective American society. If Rosa Parks or Malcom Luther King Jr. were lauded for their determination, courage and bravery, would this mean that all of society is brave, determined and couragous? The chances of this is minute.

However, generally there are common characteristics that a society would generally praise such as courage, kindness and magnanimity. The question is however whether examining the heros and role models of a society would be the best way to determine such characteristics. The complexities of humans make it difficult to assess the true character of heroes and role models. For example, a politian may be elected based on his campaign message of honesty and integrity. Individuals in society may believe that the politian's character is beyond reproach, however subsequent actions in office may indicate otherwise.

Heroes and roles models are often chosen and held up above the rest of society for their contribution to society and the characteristics they have exhibited in their contribution.
For that very reason, a distinction must be drawn between the characteristics of society and the characteristic of an individuals that society attempts to emulate. The heroes and role models and their characteristics are held above the rest of society for individuals in society as inspiration and as their aspiration. Aspiring to be like a hero is vastly different to being a hero, thus it cannot be said that the character of a society is best understood by exmining the character of their heroes and role models.

At best, it can be said that by examining the heroes and role models chosen by society is indicative of the characteristics that the society aspires to embody. However it cannot be said that the character of a society is best understood by examining the character of the men and women chosen given the complexities of humans and the varied perception of 'heroes' and 'role models'.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 39, Rule ID: COMPRISES_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprises' or 'consists of'?
Suggestion: comprises; consists of
... Society, an ambiguous term in itself, comprises of wildy varying social classes, economic ...
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Line 3, column 627, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ting civil rights of African Americans. However given the immense opposition faced by t...
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Line 8, column 116, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'an individual' or simply 'individuals'?
Suggestion: an individual; individuals
...cs of society and the characteristic of an individuals that society attempts to emulate. The h...
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Line 10, column 161, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ics that the society aspires to embody. However it cannot be said that the character of...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, thus, for example, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 14.8657303371 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2778.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 541.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13493530499 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82280071112 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98294838681 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.402957486137 0.4932671777 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 909.9 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.2695586453 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.272727273 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5909090909 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.40909090909 5.21951772744 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.424184975079 0.243740707755 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159902906505 0.0831039109588 192% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125215053116 0.0758088955206 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.291265402347 0.150359130593 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0948486835983 0.0667264976115 142% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 130.0 100.480337079 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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