"Colleges and universities should offer more courses on popular music, film,
advertising and television because contemporary culture has much greater relevance for
students than do arts and literature of the past."
To the extent that contemporary culture is, by definition, current, it does have a much more
immediate impact on students and people in general than do the arts and literature of the past.
Contemporaneous events directly affect everyone alive at the time because they are occurring at
precisely the same time as the individual's existence. But to paraphrase a famous philosopher:
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." To a great extent, past arts and
literature shape who we are as people at least as much as, if not more than, contemporary culture
does.
Everyone alive today is affected in one way or another by the events of the past. Past events have
directly led to the way that the world is shaped today. The arts and literature are one of the most
well-preserved and documented resources that can give us a direct link into what actually
happened in the past. Consider the religious writings of the Bible, the Koran and those of
Confucius, as well as those related to Buddhism, Hinduism and all other religions. These writings
directly relate to, and in some cases to a great extent control, the behavior of human beings today
even though most were written hundreds if not thousands of years ago. Artworks relating to these
religions also have a profound effect. Consider Michelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel at the
Vatican, or the vast myriad of historic Buddhist statues throughout Asia, or the ancient Muslim
mosques throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. It would be difficult to argue that
contemporary culture has more relevance to today's students when compared with the relevance
of these examples of past arts and literature.
At times it is difficult to determine what exactly is the difference between contemporary culture and
the arts and literature of the past. Shakespeare's classic writings are continuously being adapted
into current movies that are often big hits with students and the general population as a whole.
Millions of people every year view classic works of art in museums all over the world. Readings of
religious texts have never gone out of style with a large part of the world's population. Clashes
between centuries-old cultures and religions, such as that of Western countries and Islamic
extremists and that of Hindus and Muslims in India, demonstrate that the religious artifacts that
could be called arts and literature of the past are very much a part of contemporary culture.
While the past can certainly not be ignored, a large part of what students must learn at university is
based on contemporary culture. Most religious learning, at least of one's own religion, occurs
either at home or early on in a student's education. At the university level, studies of politics,
business and the computer sciences must deal in great detail with the latest advances in
contemporary culture in order to remain up to date and relevant. Other subjects, such as
mathematics, agriculture, and the arts and literature themselves look largely to the past for the
core knowledge that is taught in these courses. The application of these lessons from the past are
entirely appropriate to help put contemporary culture into some type of historical context that can
help students to understand and comprehend the rapidly changing world that they are living in.
It would seem self-evident that a properly educated university student must find a balance
between studying contemporary culture without neglecting the study of arts and literature of the
past. The study of one is not mutually exclusive of the study of the other. The benefits of a
well-rounded education come from not only knowing the state of the world as it exists today but
also in knowing how the world arrived at this stage of development in the first place.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 32, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
...ring at precisely the same time as the individuals existence. But to paraphrase a famous p...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 26, column 71, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'worlds'' or 'world's'?
Suggestion: worlds'; world's
...e out of style with a large part of the worlds population. Clashes between centuries-...
^^^^^^
Line 33, column 33, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...occurs either at home or early on in a students education. At the university level, stu...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, look, so, well, while, at least, in general, such as, as well as, in some cases, in the first place, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 30.0 14.8657303371 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 110.0 58.6224719101 188% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3247.0 2235.4752809 145% => OK
No of words: 632.0 442.535393258 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13765822785 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01394158123 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81974233991 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 301.0 215.323595506 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476265822785 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 1023.3 704.065955056 145% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 13.0 4.38483146067 296% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.8267028592 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.291666667 118.986275619 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3333333333 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.25 5.21951772744 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 40.0 4.97078651685 805% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261069906381 0.243740707755 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.075595358839 0.0831039109588 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0818351287527 0.0758088955206 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0619974512989 0.150359130593 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0689187766657 0.0667264976115 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 158.0 100.480337079 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 11.8971910112 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.