People's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
It is said that man is a creature of circumstances. In other words, it is the situation in which he finds himself that shape his life and destiny. These circumstances are not always something that he can control. Sometimes circumstances can force a person to abandon his free will in favour of actions that seem appropriate at the time. Hence, it can be said that people's behaviour is governed by forces which are not of their own making.
There are many instances which bring forth this scenario. Living in a society, people's behaviour is strongly influenced by certain unspoken norms and values of the society which they inhabit. In a society practicing caste system there are laid down rules according to which one must function. In case a person fails to observe these rules then it can lead to a lot of hardships and public persecution. These norms may have been formulated centuries ago but they still govern the lifestyle of various communities. In such cases, even if a person wishes to carve out a place for himself/herself which challenges such notions it comes at a huge cost. Many times the risk of exercising one's free will is so huge that people let such extraneous forces control their behaviour without question. Somewhat similar is the case for women in regressive, chauvinistic societies.
It cannot be denied that our surroundings play a pivotal role in shaping us as people and also influencing our behaviour. Even when we look at equal societies not prescribing to any orthodox practices, socital accpetance and validity plays a key role in the decision making process of people. Whether it is the selection of a profession, the decision to settle down and get married, or to have children; there are situations in which a person abandons his/her beliefs and convictions to make decisions which are heavily influenced by other people. This acceptance by our peer groups also leads to many otherwise calm people to participate in violent mobs targetting specific groups of people. There are many instances of absolutely harmless, moderate minded people of resorting to violent means in the frenzy of an enraged mob.
Even when we feel that we are making choices out of free will, without any other person's influence we forget that there might be other factors at play. Sometimes these forces can be non living entities like our circumstances. People have to make sacrifices for near and dear ones, make choices keeping in mind the happiness of family which might not always be an exercise in free will.
Hence, it is an absolute acknowledgement of the truth that people's behaviour is determined by forces not of their own making. These forces can take different forms like peer pressure, financial contraints, societal expectation etc.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, look, may, so, still, then, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2307.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 461.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00433839479 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8067067328 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516268980477 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 722.7 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.827874604 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.304347826 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0434782609 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.78260869565 5.21951772744 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.142404244652 0.243740707755 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0457296790222 0.0831039109588 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0505108069886 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0917196596873 0.150359130593 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0367539126459 0.0667264976115 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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