"Important truths begin as outrageous, or at least uncomfortable, attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time."
It is proven that truth is needed for the advancement of mankind. It is the truth that shows the way to enlightenment and progress. However, historically truth is not accepted comfortably rather it is seen as an opposition to the conventional wisdom, but over time people grasp the truth for their own development.
If we look at history, we can find many examples of how people of many eras opposed accepting new knowledge over their traditional views. For instance, once it was thought that the earth is flat and when scientists proved that the earth is round, clergymen opposed this view because it contradicted their religious beliefs. They found the new knowledge or new idea as an attack upon their wisdom, therefore they were reluctant to accept new ideas.
An even more interesting example could be the invention of “the pen”. When the pen was invented, it was declared an alien tool to society and many intellectual at that time discouraged people to use pens for writing. According to those intellectuals, using pen and writing things would lessen their own memory usage which in turn would make them fragile in terms of remembering things. So, they actually perceived the pen as an innovation that would harm their mental ability. However, now we know the significance of writing and the wide use of pen for that.
Similarly, one might find instances of punishment in history for generating opposing views or theories. Take, the incident of Copernicus, a scientist, as an example. He was convicted for maintaining that the sun moves around the earth because the churches at that time believed otherwise. This type of example depicts that every society has some stereotypes that they do not want to be proven wrong. They want to maintain their traditional and conventional views firmly and any contradicted views are seen as an attack on their wisdom.
However, human nature might be a reason for viewing truth as outrageous because it is very natural for people to debunk any matter or things that challenge their conventional thought regardless of being true or false. Most people hardly want to deviate from the beliefs they are taught from the time unknown. People also feel deep respect for the view of their ancestors, therefore when something challenges their ancestor’s notion, they take it as disrespect to their predecessors. And to save the honour of both them and their ancestor they oppose the truth.
In sum, it can be said that truths, that challenge the traditional views, always face oppression. But over the time when these truths hold ground, they are accepted and pave the way for the advancement of mankind.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, look, similarly, so, therefore, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2216.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 442.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01357466063 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74054285344 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506787330317 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 666.9 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.570215014 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.727272727 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0909090909 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.54545454545 5.21951772744 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.145135069455 0.243740707755 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0457014050056 0.0831039109588 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0516462682579 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0908694845627 0.150359130593 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0502369332223 0.0667264976115 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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.