Rituals are basically religious and solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to the prescribed order. Since prehistoric times human beings have invented plethora of rituals and ceremonies. Some of them are good and others detrimental. These are practiced mainly for their symbolic and practical importance and they gradually becomes part of our life. There are many rituals and ceremonies from the time when a person is born until the time of death. I am of the view that ceremonies and rituals help us define ourselves socially and culturally.
Firstly, if rituals do not exist we have to invent them. These rituals help us to define the correct path, keep us on the right path, to have belief, gives us inner strength and peace of mind. For instance worshiping god going to church, to temple or a mosque and offering prayers gives us the identity of the religion. Moreover religious rituals brings us closer, develops bond and trust with our community.
Secondly, some rituals support the person at happy and sad times while some rituals are seasonal filled with joy and happiness. To exemplify, wedding, birth, graduation are happy moments enjoyed with family and friends. In contrast funeral are moments of grief, the rituals brings all people together and support the family members. The rituals like Diwali of Hindus, Id of Islam, Chinese New Year or Christmas are annual and bring entire community together.
In addition rituals help us to identify ourselves. For instance Hindus and Muslims are identified by their colorful festivals and ceremonies, Buddhist and Jains by their principles of “Ahimsa” which means non-violence, Chinese for their ‘red colored’ new year. Thus rituals also identify religion as a whole.
With the exception of some rituals which involve pain and agony to human, the rituals in true sense gives us an identity, belongingness to a group or a community. Moreover in the contemporary world where earth is a “global village” we need to differentiate ourselves from the others, socially & culturally. In my opinion rituals and customs are important for religious belief, for a brake from routine life etc and if they don’t exist we need to invent them to define ourselves and our community as a whole.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'become'
Suggestion: become
...practical importance and they gradually becomes part of our life. There are many ritual...
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Suggestion: Moreover,
... gives us the identity of the religion. Moreover religious rituals brings us closer, dev...
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Suggestion: contrast,
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Suggestion: I'd
...ers. The rituals like Diwali of Hindus, Id of Islam, Chinese New Year or Christmas...
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Suggestion: addition,
... bring entire community together. In addition rituals help us to identify ourselves. ...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...their 'red colored' new year. Thus rituals also identify religion as a who...
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Message: Use simply 'except' or 'except for'
Suggestion: Except; Except for
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Suggestion: Moreover,
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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
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'moreover', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'thus', 'while', 'for instance', 'in addition', 'in contrast', 'in my opinion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.277136258661 0.240241500013 115% => OK
Verbs: 0.143187066975 0.157235817809 91% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0715935334873 0.0880659088768 81% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0346420323326 0.0497285424764 70% => OK
Pronouns: 0.066974595843 0.0444667217837 151% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.103926096998 0.12292977631 85% => OK
Participles: 0.0254041570439 0.0406280797675 63% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.84438073965 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0300230946882 0.030933414821 97% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0762124711316 0.0997080785238 76% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0 0.0249443105267 0% => Some modal verbs wanted.
WH_determiners: 0.00923787528868 0.0148568991511 62% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2306.0 2732.02544248 84% => OK
No of words: 372.0 452.878318584 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.19892473118 6.0361032391 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.58838876751 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.403225806452 0.366273622748 110% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.317204301075 0.280924506359 113% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.212365591398 0.200843997647 106% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.139784946237 0.132149295362 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84438073965 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 219.290929204 92% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540322580645 0.48968727796 110% => OK
Word variations: 59.8208752342 55.4138127331 108% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 18.6 23.380412469 80% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.8644962368 59.4972553346 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.3 141.124799967 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6 23.380412469 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.7 0.674092028746 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.21349557522 173% => OK
Readability: 50.3204301075 51.4728631049 98% => OK
Elegance: 1.66037735849 1.64882698954 101% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.464045829222 0.391690518653 118% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0938502870474 0.123202303941 76% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0701122528525 0.077325440228 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.543857881561 0.547984918172 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.138690284564 0.149214159877 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.186606494915 0.161403998019 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.118109146851 0.0892212321368 132% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.280240809702 0.385218514788 73% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0559731502892 0.0692045440612 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.30281486685 0.275328986314 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106288219538 0.0653680567796 163% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.4325221239 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 7.22455752212 55% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 13.5995575221 66% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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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: This is not the final score. 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.