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.
Some people idealize heroes and celebrities too much that they correlate good reputation of a celebrity to the character of the society they belong to. People expect the heroes of their society to represent them. Letting others judge the character of a society by the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its idols might do some good to the people of that society. However, I bed to differ with this claim and the supporting reason. This kind of facile symbolism reflects poor judgment and can also result in bad impressions in some situations.
First of all, I would like to point out that a society does not produce only heroes and role models but also people marked by notoriety. Any given society is a good mix of both good and evil people. A particular city may have given rise to a popular movie star who is also famous for his generosity for charitable causes. At the same time, the city could also be hosting a mafia gang bossing over the slums. Now these popular people(both good and bad) constitute a very small percentage of the total population. Ask an outsider to judge the character of the city. If he’s more repelled by the mafia’s unruly domination over the weaker parts of the city than amused by the ideals of the city, he is certainly to have to a negative impression of the city. So the claim does not state the best way to understand the character of a society.
Furthermore, the character of a society lies not in the superficial attire or ostentatious character of the heroes, it indeed is seen in the more mellow parts of the society. To examine the real character of a society, one needs to walk down its streets, taste its authentic food or meet the native people residing in the society. One could watch the local theater to understand the kind of stories they like. One of the advisable ways to understand a society’s history is to observe its cultural heritage(Monuments, forts, statues or anything that reveals yet another amusing fact about the society).
Admittedly, the famous figures influence the opinions people form of the society. This is true especially when it comes to figures of extreme popularity. For example, Adolf Hitler has left a black mark in the history of Germany. A lot of current Germans do not resonate with his then intense emotion of absolute hatred for Jews. Yet, some people when they talk about history of Germany, they almost always only remember Hitler’s cruelty. These people may label Germany as rather hatred-filled country when in reality, that is certainly not the case. However, if only one could take a ride down the roads of their country, they would see green pastoral fields that can’t ooze more peace.
The above example further proves my point of how leaders or popular figures are not the absolute measure of character of a society. It is the people, their cultural heritage and traditions that speak for its actual character.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, then, for example, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2447.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 509.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80746561886 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74984508646 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65148791809 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510805500982 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 795.6 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.9165132476 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.1153846154 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5769230769 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.57692307692 5.21951772744 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2869458074 0.243740707755 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0709312180803 0.0831039109588 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0889885658147 0.0758088955206 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151745263135 0.150359130593 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108535832277 0.0667264976115 163% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.1392134831 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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