In any situation, progress requires discussion among people who have contrasting points of view.
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.
The given statement claims “In any situation progress requires discussion among people who have contrasting points of view”. In some cases, having contrasting might lead to disagreement and stop societal progress. However, in most scenarios, having diverse points of view leads to progress. Depending upon the past experiences and outlook of an individual, a single situation can be dealt with and interpreted in numerous manners. An optimist might view a glass filled with water as being half full whereas a pessimist will view the same glass of water as being half empty. Depending on the perception, the mindset and the manner of interpretation of different individuals, it is possible to find different solutions to one problem. However, in order to arrive at the best possible solution to any problem, contrasting opinions need to be carefully examined. This would ensure progress. I would definitely opine for the given statement.
Different individuals have had different experiences in their lifetime. As a result, not all individuals view a particular situation in the same manner. They have different outlooks and hence, different solutions to the same situation. For example, the mayor of a city plans to build a fly over in the city in order to reduce the traffic congestion. In his opinion, building a flyover or a bridge is the perfect solution for reducing traffic congestion in the city. However, in the opinion of some of his analysts, this might not be a very good solution. This is because the construction of the fly over might not have the desired effect of reducing congestion in the city. This means a complete waste of the tax-payer’s money which could have been utilized in the development of other sectors such as health and education. Thus, the mayor needs to consider these contrasting opinions and discuss them with the other officials before coming to a decision. The examination of opposing views would ensure the best possible solution to the problem of traffic congestion in the city.
he biggest example of progress being a direct outcome of discussion among people with contrasting views is democracy. Democracy is the dominant form of governance in most of the countries across the globe. In a democratic nation, several political parties are present. Each of these parties have their own views and perspectives of running the administration and finding a solution to the problems occurring in the nation. However, all the important decisions of the nation are taken by the members of both the ruling party and the opposition party. The opposition party is responsible for providing contrasting views regarding a particular problem in the nation. Hence, the ruling part can get a different viewpoint of the same problem and might want to consider different solutions. This would help the ruling party to make a decision that would affect the people belonging to all sections of the society. Hence, it would help in bringing greater societal progress and consequent prosperity of the country.
Some would argue that having contrasting viewpoints would trigger disagreements and arguments among the people and thus, hamper the progress of the society as a whole. However, history has time and again proved the fact that the suppression of free speech and debate will have disastrous consequences on societal progress. For example, between 1930 and 1960, the Soviet scientist, Lysenko, along with his supporters in the Soviet Government had persecuted over 3000 scientists. These scientists opposed his theory of the ‘Inheritance of Acquired Characters’. This theory was proved to be false later. However, his absolute abuse of power had resulted in the stagnation of research in the field of biology for more than three decades.
In conclusion, it is of utmost importance to clearly examine contrasting viewpoints regarding a particular situation and discuss and debate regarding the same. This is the only way in which an individual will be able to gain an insight into the different aspects of a particular situation. As a result, the individual would be able to make better decisions and ensure greater societal progress.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 311, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
...w leads to progress. Depending upon the past experiences and outlook of an individual, a single ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: He
...lem of traffic congestion in the city. he biggest example of progress being a dir...
^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'he the biggest'.
Suggestion: he the biggest
...lem of traffic congestion in the city. he biggest example of progress being a direct outc...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, look, may, regarding, so, thus, whereas, for example, in conclusion, such as, as a result, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 105.0 58.6224719101 179% => OK
Nominalization: 32.0 12.9106741573 248% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3508.0 2235.4752809 157% => OK
No of words: 671.0 442.535393258 152% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22801788376 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.08956458786 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91974256852 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 297.0 215.323595506 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44262295082 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1080.0 704.065955056 153% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 6.24550561798 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 37.0 20.2370786517 183% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.5375162572 60.3974514979 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.8108108108 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1351351351 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.35135135135 5.21951772744 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 21.0 10.2758426966 204% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
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: 0.199579779384 0.243740707755 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0525068653567 0.0831039109588 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0734393932946 0.0758088955206 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115169670229 0.150359130593 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0512189806623 0.0667264976115 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 159.0 100.480337079 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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Note: 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 311, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
...w leads to progress. Depending upon the past experiences and outlook of an individual, a single ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: He
...lem of traffic congestion in the city. he biggest example of progress being a dir...
^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'he the biggest'.
Suggestion: he the biggest
...lem of traffic congestion in the city. he biggest example of progress being a direct outc...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, look, may, regarding, so, thus, whereas, for example, in conclusion, such as, as a result, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 105.0 58.6224719101 179% => OK
Nominalization: 32.0 12.9106741573 248% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3508.0 2235.4752809 157% => OK
No of words: 671.0 442.535393258 152% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22801788376 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.08956458786 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91974256852 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 297.0 215.323595506 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44262295082 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1080.0 704.065955056 153% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 6.24550561798 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 37.0 20.2370786517 183% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.5375162572 60.3974514979 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.8108108108 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1351351351 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.35135135135 5.21951772744 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 21.0 10.2758426966 204% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
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: 0.199579779384 0.243740707755 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0525068653567 0.0831039109588 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0734393932946 0.0758088955206 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115169670229 0.150359130593 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0512189806623 0.0667264976115 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 159.0 100.480337079 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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Note: 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.