In any situation, progress requires discussion among people who have contrasting points of view.
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 author poses the opinion that discussion between people holding different points of view is crucial to progress. To a large extent I agree with this assessment.
Progress is a large term to define, but in my understanding, progress, if put into the context of a nation state, refers to the collective growth of physical and emotional health, and economic wellbeing for all citizens. While many of us have been taught at a young age to respect the opinions of others, our limited social spheres and predetermined economic situations dictates that our opinions will inevitably take on a a fixed shape relevant to the people around us. In this case, our own lived experiences cannot define the lived experiences of others. Our skin color, our economic status, our age, our parents' occupations etc., these are all elements that determine who we are, and what ideology we prescribe to. In order to make progress possible for the many different people who have grown up in different political and economic backgrounds from our own, it is crucial to identify these differences and take them into consideration when establishing government policy. When we start to purposefully inhibit the expression of certain points of views, then we are erasing the experiences of certain populations, and in doing so, mitigating the possibility of achieving shared progress.
We can look at the United State's current political climate to see the perils of failing to consider contrasting opinions, and how doing so obstructs progress in the worst way. The U.S. government is currently caught in a stalemate between the Democratic and Republican parties, each party seemingly unwilling to take into consideration the ideological standpoints of the other when making decisions, and even resorting to toxic and divisive measures to taunt and make a mockery of the other in order to gain a discursive upper hand. However, this binary dichotomy we see in politics today does nothing to advance the living situation of ordinary U.S. citizens. Bills that make it through the House are unable to pass the Senate; certain universal goals are pushed into the background to make way for ideological debates; political officials work less on passing legislation, and more on appealing to the emotional () of their constituents. The tensions between "left" and "right" are heightened to such a degree that very few people on either side are even willing to acknowledge that the other's position might very well come from a place of valid consideration, or how the other's goals might actually coincide with their own. Because of our own inability to discuss with the people on the other side, we have blinded ourselves to the needs of other people, and in doing so made it impossible to advance the wellbeing of society as a whole.
The author is very definitive in their stance, yet it is also important to note that despite the importance of recognizing the spectrum of different points of view, and their importance in making progress, certain points of view are so morally and logically flawed in nature that they should be excluded from consideration. To expand on the topic of American politics, the current debate over race is an example of how certain points of view can hinder the way of progress. While there has been a huge surge in anti racist sentiment, there is still the presence of certain groups that base their hateful ideology on the notion that one race is superior to the other. In this case, discussion does not suffice. Progress requires the mutual respect of citizens, and their ability to empathize on both a moral and logical level with other people. People who bear these ideologies do not have the capacity to do so, and as such discussion with them will not yield progress, but hinder it.
The author makes a very thought provoking claim, and while I agree with them in many aspects, there are certain exceptions that make progress possible without discussion.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: a
...at our opinions will inevitably take on a a fixed shape relevant to the people arou...
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Line 5, column 422, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...at our opinions will inevitably take on a a fixed shape relevant to the people ar...
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Line 5, column 422, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'a' or 'a' is left.
Suggestion: a; a
...at our opinions will inevitably take on a a fixed shape relevant to the people arou...
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Line 5, column 450, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding people'?
Suggestion: the surrounding people
...bly take on a a fixed shape relevant to the people around us. In this case, our own lived experience...
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Line 5, column 763, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...order to make progress possible for the many different people who have grown up in different p...
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Line 9, column 914, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
..., and more on appealing to the emotional of their constituents. The tensions betw...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, look, so, still, then, well, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 107.0 58.6224719101 183% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3340.0 2235.4752809 149% => OK
No of words: 659.0 442.535393258 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06828528073 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.06665523852 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83258418237 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 322.0 215.323595506 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.488619119879 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 1067.4 704.065955056 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 16.0 1.77640449438 901% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 31.0 23.0359550562 135% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 83.8681613053 60.3974514979 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 159.047619048 118.986275619 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.380952381 23.4991977007 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.2380952381 5.21951772744 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.15057020346 0.243740707755 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.053179155581 0.0831039109588 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0430717863421 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105541039277 0.150359130593 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0554819839987 0.0667264976115 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.1 14.1392134831 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 48.8420337079 82% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.72 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 163.0 100.480337079 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.2143820225 128% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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