In this age of intensive media coverage it is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for th

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In this age of intensive media coverage, it is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.

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.

A hero is someone whom the entire society admires, respects and looks up to. He is someone from whom we draw inspiration, someone who's doctrines are followed by children all over the globe. At least, that was the case up and until the age of media and especially social media. Here the prompt, claims that "In this age of intensive media coverage, it is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero" and I moderately agree to this as it is true the minimum requirements for someone to be considered as a hero has regressed but there are some acts of bravery that would go unnoticed without the extensive coverage of media. I will be discussing the arguments for and against the prompt in the coming sections.

First all, as mentioned above, the minimum requirements for someone to be considered a hero has dropped significantly, as a result the quality of a modern day hero has gone down. Small acts of kindness which should be considered normal but due to the extensive social media coverage are getting canonized. For example: all the major surveys about mental health show how much our eyes are glued to social media, and how much of an influence they have in our daily lives. Consequently, the small acts of kindness which should be a normal virtue for a human being are given a platform to be lauded. Thus, our addiction for social media is degrading the standards of what we should consider before claiming someone to be a hero.

Second off all, due to the pervasive nature of social media content and media content in general, it has become very difficult to trust the validity of any content that comes to our screens. Spurious content is everywhere and due to our minds getting numbed from the overexposure to social media we as a race are beginning to loose our sense of judging what is true and what is fake. Anyone can make a content that makes him out to be an outstanding human being with even more outstanding morals. For example: Instagram celebrities are notorious for posting pretentious content for some extra views and followers and boosting their image with forged content that make them out to be a superhuman. This is such a common sight in the social media world, that is becoming very difficult to judge who is a true hero and who is a fake one. Such dishonesty makes the ordinary citizen loose their interest to consider someone a hero.

On the contrary, there are some events that take place in a society which would not be brought to our attention without the wide coverage of media and social media. There are kind people peppered throughout a society who does good for the sake of good and not for attention. They are among us and we would never know about them if their acts were not made accessible to us through social media. This is the only positive effect that social media has had regarding this issue. For example: if someone did not use the "go live" option of Facebook when a local man was saving a helpless girl from getting mugged we would have never known about it. So we have only social media and it extensive coverage to thank for this accessibility.

To conclude it is very difficult to take sides while arguing both sides of the coin presented in the prompt but it can be said that we should always take our contents with a grain of salt and whenever it is feasible we should always verify how genuine the content is. If we can filter out the bad and keep the good the standards required to be a hero will never go down.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: lose
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, if, look, regarding, second, so, thus, while, at least, for example, in general, as a result, it is true, on the contrary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 43.0 19.5258426966 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => 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: 2900.0 2235.4752809 130% => OK
No of words: 633.0 442.535393258 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.58135860979 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01592376844 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47969927715 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 277.0 215.323595506 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.437598736177 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 943.2 704.065955056 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.5583186459 60.3974514979 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.833333333 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.375 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 5.21951772744 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23424812232 0.243740707755 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0752065164434 0.0831039109588 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0674779759983 0.0758088955206 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140365086213 0.150359130593 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0865866729919 0.0667264976115 130% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.58 12.1639044944 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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