Discussing controversial topics with those with contrasting views is not useful because very few people change their mind when questioned about their core beliefs.
Write a response to the prompt in which you discuss whether or not you agree or disagree. Be certain to fully develop your position and carefully consider ways in which your position could be challenged.
The idea of a "view" on a particular topic when unchallenged by a contrasting perspective, will result in a situation that resembles a "frog living in a well". The person with such one sided views look upon it as the supreme truth and all else as a work of fiction.
First, the concept of debate includes the development of the final solution by comparision of contrasting view points. The presence of a opposing view from the other party helps us to evaluate our own viewpoints from a 360 degree perspective. Usually when an argument is formulated by a party with a bias towards one view, it tends to concentrate only on the positive aspects. For example, the advocates of the plan "Urbanize Cetopia" were in favor of upgrading the city of Cetopia with bigger roads, high rise buildings and improved infrastructure. This bill was passed unanimously by the goverment and implemented. But it was not untill a fews years down the line, the people of Cetopia felt the actual costs of the new city. The wider roads has required the quelling of hunderds of trees leading to greater air pollution. The highrise buildings led Cetopia to put a greater strain on its fresh water bodies, leading to a draught like situation. If the concept of "Urbanize Cetopia" was debated in the parliment instead of a unanimous vote, perhaps these shortcommings could have been exposed much earlier in the process.
Second, the human mind is much more flexible than it is given credit. Studies have shown that the opinion held by a person is the result of collection of facts presented and understood by the person over a period of time. A person who has never heard the other side of the controversial view has never really evaluated the other stance. By discussing views and presenting accurate facts in a matter which the other people can understand, not only we get an evaluated view of the topic, opposing parties usually understand what the other side has to offer on the situation.
While it is nesesary to have contrasting viewpoints to evalute a topic on a complete basis. It is more important to first discuss the idea with like-minded people to fully gauge the strength of the idea before its presentation. If a half baked idea is put on the pedestal for debate, it is unlikely to convince anyone to vote in it favor, effectively ending the topic before it even realises its proper potential.
In conclusion, the controversial topics especially needs to be evaluated by those of contrasting views as only this allows for the 360 view of the topic and helps in the proper implementation of the solution, if any.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
The idea of a 'view' on a particular topic ...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...ll result in a situation that resembles a 'frog living in a well'. The ...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...ontrasting view points. The presence of a opposing view from the other party help...
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Line 9, column 207, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...ted and understood by the person over a period of time. A person who has never heard the other...
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Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ide has to offer on the situation. While it is nesesary to have contrasting view...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, look, really, second, so, well, while, as to, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.9520958084 23% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 55.5748502994 131% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2208.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 450.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90666666667 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6057793516 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99344468984 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517777777778 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 700.2 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.439786171 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.210526316 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6842105263 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.63157894737 5.70786347227 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.166267090085 0.218282227539 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0465787198223 0.0743258471296 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0432319893391 0.0701772020484 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0991254973983 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0265342292579 0.0628817314937 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 98.500998004 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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.