Claim: Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system
Reason: Laws cannot change what is in people’s hearts or minds.
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.
It is debatable whether a lot of malaise in this day and age cannot be resolved by laws and the legal system because laws are not able to transform people's hearts and minds. However, although this claim seems axiomatic, laws and the legal system penetrates deeply into people's hearts contrary to the suggested perspective.
To begin with, laws often represent opinions of the entire nation, or mainstream thoughts. People's thoughts are prone to follow the revised, or newly added laws. Take discrimination issue as an example. Discrimination, especially the one against women was very severe in the past. Nevertheless, after the passing of nineteenth amendment that bestowed women's suffrage, perspectives on women's rights changed drastically. Because of the change of the law, which is regarded to have authority that represents the values of the nation, many people were enlightened, and women were more encouraged to fight for their rights. Additionally, recent passing of permitting gay marriage in the states have truly opened up people's minds and thought about LGBT community since the nation is openly accepting their rights. Therefore, laws and the legal system, with their authoritative power and influence, have immense impact on people's hearts and minds, which in this case aided in reducing discrimination problem of the United States.
Furthermore, laws and legal system that are practiced justly, can change people's hearts and minds, thus solving problems. Thoughts on laws are becoming more skeptical because they are often not practiced equally to everyone; in fact, a myriad of problems occur due to abuse of laws that include political fraudulence and laws being more generous to powerful people. Molesters receiving light punishments, people with power avoiding punishments by money, or manipulating evidence, and judges being bribed to make an unfair decision are all clear examples of legal system being exploited and abused, thereby resulting in not solving the problem. Nonetheless, if every law is applied same to every member of a society, people will not only rely on laws perfunctorily and functionally, but also emotionally as well. Healthy laws and system that practice laws can solve a lot of modern days problem by affecting people's hearts.
Admittedly, it is regarded that laws cannot heal wounds and change people's minds. However, lawyers and judges' wholehearted effort to make a just decision and chase after truth can condole people and transform people's maladaptive thoughts. All in all I disagree with the given statement because of aforementioned reasons. Laws can change people's minds because they exist to enlighten and maintain society's balance by resolving current problems and preventing future maladies.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
1. Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 or 4 arguments. 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: conclusion.
2. more arguments wanted in the second paragraph. 80% are examples.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 428 350
No. of Characters: 2280 1500
No. of Different Words: 229 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.548 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.327 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.738 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 183 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 131 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 96 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 56 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.526 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.96 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.421 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.51 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.106 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 882, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'days'' or 'day's'?
Suggestion: days'; day's
...practice laws can solve a lot of modern days problem by affecting peoples hearts. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, therefore, thus, well, in fact, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 33.0505617978 51% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2330.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 428.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44392523364 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82248406212 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551401869159 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 720.0 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.6973221201 60.3974514979 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.631578947 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5263157895 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94736842105 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.337469848982 0.243740707755 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10495877599 0.0831039109588 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0758570166739 0.0758088955206 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209486950736 0.150359130593 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0389273570136 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.57 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.56 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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