People's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making.
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 widely believed that human beings have free will. However, some people argue that people’s behavior is largely determined by the forces not of their own making. I disagree with this statement in that people have great liberty in choosing one’s behavior.
Granted, people’s behaviors can be influenced by authority. Lots of people think they will never choose to harm other innocent people. In order to study the impact of authority in one’s behavior, Milgram designed an experiment in which the authoritative figure orders participants to give electronical shocks to their partners. Even though their partners screamed and begged to stop the pain, participants kept pressing the button when the authoritative figure in the white gown asked them to proceed. Therefore, people’s behavior can be determined by the orders of an authority.
Also, people’s behavior can be decided by the views of the majority. Asch conducted the experiment which revealed the people’s tendency toward the conformity of behaviors. The questions which were simple and easy perceptual tasks were asked to college students. The group of students needed to choose two lines with same length. However, there were actors who chose the wrong line intentionally. The results of Asch conformity experiments show that most college students gave at least one incorrect answers when majority of other respondents gave the wrong answers. As we can see from this experiment, people’s behavior can be influenced by the opinions of the majority.
Nevertheless, people are capable of choosing one’s behavior in spite of the pressure from authority and majority. Rosa Parks decided not to obey bus driver’s order. In the 1950’s it was widely believed that the white people have priority on the bus. When the white section is filled, the black people had to give up their bus seats. Not only majority people believed in racial segregation, but also there was the law for this bus segregation. Still Rosa Parks chose not to give up her seats and as a result she was arrested. She could choose her own action because she had will and passion toward remedying injustices. Therefore people can decide their own behaviors when they have high aims in their lives.
In conclusion, human beings are capable of exercising one’s free will and determine their own behaviors. It is true that people are susceptible to the influence of authority and majority but we can still overcome those power of leverage and behave for our own goals and beliefs.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Still,
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Suggestion: Therefore,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, nevertheless, so, still, therefore, at least, in conclusion, as a result, in spite of, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 58.6224719101 89% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2168.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 409.0 442.535393258 92% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30073349633 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88472709223 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 215.323595506 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498777506112 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 670.5 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.0218042707 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.72 118.986275619 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.36 23.4991977007 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.68 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210874362602 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0688172383906 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631662377484 0.0758088955206 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141296540605 0.150359130593 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0579355450929 0.0667264976115 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.8420337079 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.16 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => 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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