Anyone can make things bigger and more complex. What requires real effort and courage is to move in the opposite direction---in other words, to make things as simple as possible.
'Simplicity and complexity' two sides of a coin but the thumb rule of life. What seems easy or simple for one might be so convoluted for the other. Depending upon one’s experiences, previous learning, and insight one can adjudge or misinterpret the hidden meaning and crux of an idea or thought. Now if one assumes that everybody in a group will have same notion for a 'half-filled glass of water' it is impossible. Thus, encountering any particular issue and deducing its meaning, give new interpretations and conclusions.
It is rightly said-'easy to move in a flock, than to wander alone', con...
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- "Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned wit 50
- Young people enjoy life more than older people do. 90
- When schools do not have enough funding, some people think physical education classes should be cut, while others believe that courses in art and music should be eliminated first. Which do you think is preferable and why? 90
- The following appeared in a memorandum from the manager of WWAC radio station."To reverse a decline in listener numbers, our owners have decided that WWAC must change from its current rock-music format. The decline has occurred despite population growth i 70
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Score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
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Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.907 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.612 4.6
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No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 60 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.217 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.007 7.5
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Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.259 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.427 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
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