To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
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.
The prompt states that understanding any society, one must study its major cities. Civilizations operate much like icebergs: only a portion of its true scope is seen on the surface. While major cities are sure to provide valuable insight on a group of people, outliers often skew the actual nature of the demographics. In-depth analysis is required for an accurate perception of a society.
To begin with, the word "society" is a broad term. Society could refer to a country, city or religion. The United States is considered a melting pot of different cultures and religions. Her cities, such as New Orleans, have cultures largely influenced by other countries. Contrastly, there are cultures that do not have official cities. The Kurds are a religious group of people who do not have any officially designated countries or cities. With a following of over their 67 million people spread throughout the Middle East, no specific characteristics can be drawn from their dispersion. Societies are general in nature; pinpointing traits to different groups of people by examing their major cities is not a realistic task.
Further, societies vary in size and scope. For instance, America is a population of over 350 million and of dozens of different religions. Comparing San Francisco - a largely progressive, liberal area - to the rural plains of conservative Alachua, Florida is like comparing apples to oranges. Both make up a significant part of America, and to extract the "most important" characteristics from areas with polar differences is arbitrary. Further, a recent Wall Street Journal article referenced Qater, and the country's disparity of wealth. Qater is largely a poor country, but an astounding 90% of their money is controlled by 1% of their citizens; their major cities are extravagant, but it is certainly not a fair representation of their general population. Major cities do not properly characterize a society.
Alternatively, one can understand how it is possible to derive meaning behind society's major cities. A recent gallup poll published that more than half the world's populations live in urban city centers. Gathering information from areas in which the majority of the population lives in major city centers may convey accurate interpretations. For example, Israel is a small country. Many would argue that going to it's two major cities, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, will provide adequate context into their culture. Studying major cities can occasionally offer a true representation of culture for some countries, but this is not true for all societies.
Unarguably, major cities can provide a snapshot of the culture of countries, religion and culture, but it is just that: a snapshot. It is not representative for all groups of people. Relying on the perception of specific cities is to rely on "the tip of the iceberg."
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: You used an adverb ('largely') instead an adjective, or a noun ('progressive') instead of another adjective.
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y on 'the tip of the iceberg.'
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, so, while, for example, for instance, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2431.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 458.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30786026201 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16888449182 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558951965066 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 773.1 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.3714353542 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.8214285714 118.986275619 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3571428571 23.4991977007 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.64285714286 5.21951772744 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 18.0 4.83258426966 372% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147773894265 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0412860707147 0.0831039109588 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0509972361455 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0878595689576 0.150359130593 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0510090006871 0.0667264976115 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.22 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 100.480337079 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 11.8971910112 50% => 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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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.