The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take In developing and sup

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The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

The claim states that, "Best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones." I feel that this claim is very absolute in nature and preaches that positivity is a way of life which should be practicised in order to be happy. Being positive does promote good mental health, but entirely ignoring negative thoughts impedes ones growth and development into a real person.

Firstly, let us take the example of the disney movie, Inside out. In this movie various emotions which go in a girl's mind are portrayed namely, Joy, sadness, anger and greed. Before I elaborate we can already see how most of the emotions are negative one, and I feel this gives an idea about how reality works. In the movie too, Joy tries to control the protagnist's thoughts through out the story line only to realise by the end, the importance of other negative feelings and how it helps to maintain a balance in a person's life to maintain sanity. There are many such films which portray that life is not all about halcyon days, and underline the imporatance of "every dark night is followed by a beautiful dawn:."

Secondly, expressings one's negative thoughts is found to be cathartic. Shakespeare, the prolific playright thorugh Romeo and Juliet expressed that everyone does not get a happy ending. Through his plays he intended to elicit Catharsis, the process of releasing negative and sad feelings. Many times negative and sad emotions are used interchangebly too, negative could account for toxic thoughtsm where as, sadness simply maybe due to loss of a dear one. On such an occasion, sadness is not a negative thought, rather it is longing for someone who you do not have in your life anymore. In such a scenario, I can draw a parallet between love and sorrow as both share the concept of longing for somebody you love.

Finally, I woud like to emphasize the importance of positive thoughts too, though I feel that one cannot really "preach" positivity. Positivity has been turned into a business by many influencers on the internet by just quoting banal sayings and posting images while looking perfect under tonnes of makeup and pretending to do yoga. These things just spoil the essense of cheerfulness and contentment. On the other hand, there are people teaching people to live a healthy life through good diet, proper exercise and so on. I support what these people preach. As the saying goes, "Healthy body, happy mind" being fit and active is efficaious in producing positive lifestyle together.

All in all, satisfaction and disatisfaction is more not only affected by external factor, but dependent majorly on the individual. You may practice yoga for peace of mind but if something has been bothering you and you ignore it, no amount of therapy can help you get better. Hence, suppression of negative feelings should never be encouraged as it leads to toxic lifestyle.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, look, may, really, second, secondly, so, while, i feel, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2442.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 489.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99386503067 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70248278971 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75898300767 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 283.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578732106339 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 779.4 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.1871669728 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.285714286 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2857142857 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.42857142857 5.21951772744 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252979643577 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0596574553977 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0657026420551 0.0758088955206 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136863345986 0.150359130593 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0686776581913 0.0667264976115 103% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.1392134831 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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