Claim The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models Reason Heroes and role models reveal a society s highest ideals Write a response in whic

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Claim: The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the
character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role
models.

Reason: Heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideals.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the
claim and the reason on which that claim is based.

Every society has some underlying principles which are inherently followed by every individual in the society, while performing their daily chores. But there are some individuals, who work tirelessly around some of these principles, and motivate others to follow their actions. These men and women then become idols for those who belong to the society. So, the character of a society is well displayed in the idols that the society maintains and cherishes.

During the independence movement in India, if we look at the situation particularly in the state of Maharashtra, there were primarily two factions of the independence movement which followed two extremely contrasting ideologies. The first one, led by Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, believed that the war for independence can only be won using peaceful non-violent ways, making sure that neither the opressors, nor the oppressed must be hurt during the process. The other one, led by Lokmanya Bal Ganagadhar Tilak, believed that the revolutionaries must resort to violent ways to express their discontent over the British rule, and consequently overthrow them. This resulted in two kinds of societies across India (with respect to revolutionary ideologies), ones which followed Tilak, and the other following Agarkar. The ones who followed Tilak, would often try to destabilize the British Governance in their region by conducting planned bombings at government facilites, and openly rallying against the British. The ones who followed Agarkar observed more peaceful ways like Satyagraha (i.e. fasting until death) in order to gain support of the local Indians and other revoutionaries to challenge the British. Thus we could see how the idols were reflected in the actions of the two contrasting societies.

But sometimes, those in the society who follow the idols, form only a very small fraction of it, and the society is still in the phase of getting closer to those idols. For example, if some scientist from a society wins a Nobel prize, the society heaps praise on that person, and considers him/her as their role model. But this does not mean that most of the individuals in the society are scientists or even share a scientific attitude in life. The role model status might just be because the scientist won an international award, and hence he is valued in the society. Hence it is not always wise to judge the character of the society just by looking at the role models. What matters the most is the collective impact that the society has on the world, and what kind of initiatives the society takes, as a whole. These are the real indicators of the societal character.

Thus, although the study of role model might be very helpful in understanding the type of achievements that are valued in the society, it sometimes does not provide a holistic view as to what actually is the character of the individuals in the society. In these cases, we must look at the broader aspect of the initiates taken and reforms brought about in the bigger community, which better explain the character of those individuals.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1199, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...evoutionaries to challenge the British. Thus we could see how the idols were reflect...
^^^^
Line 5, column 572, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... and hence he is valued in the society. Hence it is not always wise to judge the char...
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, first, hence, if, look, so, still, then, thus, well, while, as to, for example, kind of, with respect to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2565.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 505.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07920792079 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78626316511 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514851485149 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 819.0 704.065955056 116% => 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: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 12.0 1.77640449438 676% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.6167608437 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.25 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.25 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.65 5.21951772744 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21714292313 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0691339041379 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0719907790962 0.0758088955206 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138899323365 0.150359130593 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0963864180525 0.0667264976115 144% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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 3, column 1199, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...evoutionaries to challenge the British. Thus we could see how the idols were reflect...
^^^^
Line 5, column 572, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... and hence he is valued in the society. Hence it is not always wise to judge the char...
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, first, hence, if, look, so, still, then, thus, well, while, as to, for example, kind of, with respect to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2565.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 505.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07920792079 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78626316511 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514851485149 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 819.0 704.065955056 116% => 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: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 12.0 1.77640449438 676% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.6167608437 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.25 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.25 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.65 5.21951772744 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21714292313 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0691339041379 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0719907790962 0.0758088955206 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138899323365 0.150359130593 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0963864180525 0.0667264976115 144% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


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