The first step to self knowledge is rejection of the familiar Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take In developing and supporting your po

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The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

"Knowledge is divine", this is something we have been told since our childhood days. Knowlegde is the powerful source we usually develop from peers and experts, but it is sometimes forgotten that we also gain a lot from the self experiences and personal interests, interests we have been familiarised by our surroundings. The given claim recommends the first step to this mansion of self-knowledge that is the rejection of familiarity. I disagree with the claim because familiarity is the first step that develops the curiosity to learn more. I believe without being familiar to any particular idea we would never foucs on such idea. Once brought to our conscience our brains starts to function.

To being with, familiarity does not necessarily mean knowing the concept very well, it only means having a vague idea of the concept. For developing self-knowledge in a field, do we need to reject familiarity and start learning from the very basics? I would strongly deny. For instance, take a game of badminton. My character Rani, a girl from villages of India, used to play a game with racket and a cock with her friends, hardly did she know that the game she's playing is called Badminton. She found it intersting and she even excelled in playing the game with her friends. Now with this familiarity, she is more intersted to gain knowledge by her own. In fact, when she visited the town later on, she realised that the game is called Badminton and she attained self-knowledge as she was familiar with the kind of game which she used to play with her friends in her village. This was very advangaeous, infact very crucial for her to develop the self-knowledge in the field of Badminton.

Also, it is pertinent to consider the possibilty of rejection. In continuation of the above example, if Rani could never connect the game she one day saw two players playing with similar rackets and cock on Television, she would never be intersted in developing the Self-Knowledge in this field. She would rather ignore the game if she stared to miss the rules of the game. She would never gain Self-knowledge in this field in case she rejected the very idea of familiarism.

Further, I strongly believe, in a process of gaining Self-Knowledge, we learn a few concepts but we unlearn a lot of other concepts. We might be familiar with few concepts but not obviously not all the concepts, and so we learn them, however we might be familiar with the concept, but on deep diving and on gaining proufundity, we relaise that few of out presumtions were wrogn and we involuntarily unlearn them. For example, Rani knew only the game of rally in Badminton, where you play as a warm up before the actual match. Rain thought this was the very game itself, but little did she realise that that was just a warm up and the real game is to win points by outsmarting the opponent than trying to prolong the game. However, whithout familiarity, there would not be any interst that would drive the lead the person to develop Self-Knowledge

Finally, I believe it would be wise to conclude that the frist step is in Self-Knowledge is not rejecting familiarism, but developing on what is known. While we learn a lot, we even unlearn more. Familiarism is the key to Self-Knowledge. It is the torch bearer and something that ignights the desire to learn in each one of us and thus I rightly believe the recommendation is not an accurate one and require evaluation.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...rs playing with similar rackets and cock on Television, she would never be inters...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, so, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in fact, kind of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 77.0 33.0505617978 233% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2857.0 2235.4752809 128% => OK
No of words: 596.0 442.535393258 135% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79362416107 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94096258147 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92139246206 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.459731543624 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 874.8 704.065955056 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 6.24550561798 336% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.3782929058 60.3974514979 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.814814815 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0740740741 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.92592592593 5.21951772744 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.162326435892 0.243740707755 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0543329696511 0.0831039109588 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.052118731093 0.0758088955206 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0949219217065 0.150359130593 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0260448334147 0.0667264976115 39% => 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: 12.2 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.1639044944 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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