The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and the women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models.
How to understand the character of a society? It has been a heated topic among the common citizens. The claims supports that the best way to realize the goal is to examine the character of the men and women it chooses as its heroes. Although the statement make some sense, it overlooks other important aspects and attribute too much to role models. Therefore, I could not agree with it much.
The heroes or role models are certainly chosen on criteria of principles of social morality, which are seen as the pioneers in moral area. I concede that they could represent the realistic goals of a society to a large degree. When we understand the spirit of Martin Luther King, we realize the pith of American dream such as equality and freedom; if we know more about Mahatma Gandhi and his non-cooperation activities, we get acquainted with the persistence and tolerance entrenched in Indian culture. Every nation has its distinct cultural pattern, which is usually marked significantly by the heroes they value most. Instead, if we look at other common and ordinary people in those societies, they may be likely to present a much uniform characters.
Although considering about the characters of the stars in one society sometimes render us quicker and easier accesses to the society itself, it brings about other problems as well. First is the common characters of almost all moral heroes: kind, brave, generous and so on. When comparing Confucius with Socrates, who were both great ancient philosophers, besides some differences on teaching patterns, we also discover more similarities of their experiences: both of whom were respectful scholars, seeking for the best way to establish a perfect country. Then there comes another question, are the moral heroes themselves impeccable? Of course not, everyone has his or her unique personality, which could not be generalized to a whole nation’s scale. so we have to make clear distinguish between the common features and the idiosyncratic ones on one person.
In addition, most time it is better for us to investigate more into the daily life of common citizens to get familiar with a society. Great people, despite of their high standard of moral qualities, are the examples of the mass----that is to say, many others are just looking up to them .In order to truly realize a society, one need not only watch its bright side, but also the dark side behind the surface. Social conflicts and problems arise in almost every society, by studying different forms of these tough issues, we could figure out a more clear picture of the society. Thus, instead of only concerning the models, we had better pay more attention to those negligible figures, especially those in the bottom of the society.
In sum, as a society consists many aspects, it is too hastily to assert that the best way to understand it is to examine the character of the heroes or role models. On the contrary, we need take on various angles and know more about people in different social classes. Only in a multidimensional view can we make a more justified evaluation on it.
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Discourse Markers used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.217838765009 0.238963963785 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.126929674099 0.154291517835 82% => OK
Adjectives: 0.109777015437 0.0886310499679 124% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0583190394511 0.0506014161523 115% => OK
Pronouns: 0.065180102916 0.0449626384858 145% => OK
Prepositions: 0.120068610635 0.123526278965 97% => OK
Participles: 0.0240137221269 0.0379742944744 63% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.75567904036 2.82910677849 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.032590051458 0.0316879551592 103% => OK
Particles: 0.00343053173242 0.0014075125626 244% => Less particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.104631217839 0.0950106342287 110% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0102915951973 0.0245489744465 42% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0154373927959 0.0157978311181 98% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3104.0 2899.98275862 107% => OK
No of words: 522.0 478.390804598 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.94636015326 6.0591788892 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77988695657 4.65681771538 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.358237547893 0.369966551584 97% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.272030651341 0.285172536893 95% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.197318007663 0.207245337619 95% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.122605363985 0.136322040163 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75567904036 2.82910677849 97% => OK
Unique words: 281.0 234.298850575 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538314176245 0.492565540709 109% => OK
Word variations: 66.3084140645 56.8184620615 117% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 21.1264367816 109% => OK
Sentence length: 22.6956521739 23.7468607788 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.5116786936 62.0618507366 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.956521739 143.81877709 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6956521739 23.7468607788 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.739130434783 0.728815259664 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.87931034483 102% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.71264367816 91% => OK
Readability: 49.898717308 52.2641144681 95% => OK
Elegance: 1.44520547945 1.64547068916 88% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.683949758257 0.39480681544 173% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0721664223513 0.11556216369 62% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0531429880479 0.0736162880345 72% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.499865167534 0.531340600358 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.14122572364 0.15197228837 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.2602717679 0.158818324754 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.192317700624 0.0851127212816 226% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.434401976656 0.388921930462 112% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.037416881819 0.0677916285025 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.499206935837 0.28015025965 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0981911592025 0.0610219844235 161% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.8591954023 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.30459770115 38% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.96264367816 121% => OK
Positive topic words: 14.0 8.10632183908 173% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.93390804598 25% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 4.0 3.04597701149 131% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 15.0862068966 126% => OK
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay E-rater: 4.5 Out of 6