“People most respect the powerful not when they exercise their power, but when they refrain from exercising it.”
Are the powerful respected by people, when they exercise the power or refrain from exercising it? While some would assert that the powerful are respected when they exercise the power, others would state that it is when they refrain from exercising it, they are venerated. After weighing the evidence, it is certain that it is only when the powerful exercise the power, they are respected because the powerful are deemed powerful only when they exercise it; of course, with the power being exercised on a righteous note.
Those that would argue in favor refraining from exercising the power might point to the Non-alignment movement by India or the retreat during Kargil war by India. Non-alignment movement as a move initiated by India from not taking sides of capitalist United States or communist Russia during the Cold War was welcomed by other developing and under developed countries that went on to join the movement. Even though India was respected then as a peace loving nation it was only by those countries that had similar perspective as India. Further, the retreat of Indian army from Pakistan during the Kargil war did bring respect among the world countries; although the respect by Indian people towards the government declined since India has been subject to several attacks by Pakistan since then. Thus, even though refraining from exercising power by the powerful may be respected by some people, it is exercising power that brings respect from the masses.
Now consider the exercising of power by the powerful. United States bombing on the states of Japan is surely one of the sheer exercises of the power. Even though it brought great devastation to Japan, it is what brought great respect for United States as the super power in the world. Japan attacked Pearl harbour of United States causing great casualties and agony among the people of United States. The retaliation attack by United States army with nuclear bombing on the Japanese states of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought respect from people of United States and countries across the world. That kind of respect wouldn’t have come, had it refrained from exercising the power.
Like United States, India’s involvement in the Bangladesh Liberation war is an absolute exercise of the power. Bangladesh, then East Pakistan with a largely Bengali speaking population was undermined by Urdu speaking politicians of West Pakistan, which brought distress among the people of Bangladesh causing widespread protests and revolt for independence. With Bangladesh seeking India for help and Iarge in flow of refugees from Bangladesh to India, India exercised its power to liberate Bangladesh from Pakistan. This not only brought deep respect from people of Bangladesh and India but also from the world countries as the super power in South Asia and put India into limelight. Had India refrained from helping Bangladesh, it would have only raised question of whether India was indeed powerful.
Ultimately, it is clear that powerful is respected by people upon exercising the power not on refraining from exercising it. The United States attack on Japan and India’s involvement in Bangladesh Liberation war are both exceptional examples of exercising of power and it is these exercising that brought them the respect. If anything, the refrainment from exercise of power shall bring respect from only certain set of people who benefit from it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, then, thus, while, kind of, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 90.0 58.6224719101 154% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2876.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 552.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21014492754 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84713113593 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63877336441 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.400362318841 0.4932671777 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 900.0 704.065955056 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.5719509783 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.727272727 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0909090909 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.77272727273 5.21951772744 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.511443798967 0.243740707755 210% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.215703092114 0.0831039109588 260% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.189936037918 0.0758088955206 251% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.344319591043 0.150359130593 229% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.196032484277 0.0667264976115 294% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 100.480337079 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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