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

In order to understand the highest ideals of a society, some people believe that the best way is to investigate the character of its chosen heroes or role models because these people can reveal the merits that pursued by the whole society. While I agree that heroes and role models can reflect the characteristics which pursued by the society, I believe that it might be unreasonable to learn a whole society through its heroes and role models because of three reasons.

To begin with, heroes and role models indeed reflect the merits needed by the society because they are chosen by the whole society. For example, in China, every year there are some role models chosen by the governments to promote their characteristics. They are usually friendly and devote themselves to solving others’ lives or significant problems. These heroes and role models do play an important role in revealing a society’s idealistic characteristics and telling young people to learn from them. In that case, studying and learning the features of heroes can really help a person to investigate the highest ideals of a society.

However, just focusing on heroes and role models may be misleading because governments may choose specific heroes to promote governments’ political pursuit. Think about the heroes chosen by China’s government, they usually lose their lives because of helping others or achieving their tasks set by governments. It is true that they are brave, but it may be unreasonable to think that the whole society has the same character. Heroes and role models may be used to influence the public opinion about the nation and legitimize the governments. In that case, regarding heroes as a way to examine the nature of a whole society may be a bad choice.

In addition, in a society, the proportion of heroes is quite small and most citizens are ordinary people who lack the ideal characteristics. Maybe a society regard tolerance as a merit, but many people in the society might be not tolerant at all. The highest ideals of a society can’t correctly reflect the real character of the society. There is a possibility that the heroes are chosen because of the lack of such characteristic in the society. Thus, to understand the character of a society, just focusing on its role models may be a unreasonable decision.

In conclusion, while I agree that heroes do reveal the highest ideals of a society, I disagree with the claim that we can understand the nature of a society through these heroes and role models because of the reasons mentioned above.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, really, regarding, so, thus, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, it is true, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2140.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 429.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98834498834 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8333561063 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 215.323595506 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.391608391608 0.4932671777 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 688.5 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.5825123496 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.888888889 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.94444444444 5.21951772744 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
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Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.477524574176 0.243740707755 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.168194238573 0.0831039109588 202% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102453952181 0.0758088955206 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.318539771651 0.150359130593 212% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0610421991675 0.0667264976115 91% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 100.480337079 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 11.8971910112 151% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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