It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take In developing an

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It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

Who am I? It is one of the famous philosophy three questions. It is hard to deny that people’s life is largely a process of finding the definition of themselves. As human civilization develops, thing are getting more and more complicated, and sometimes people gets lost and do not know who they actually are. To tackle such problem, some argue that people can define themselves mostly through their identification with social groups. I mostly agree with the idea in the following three aspects.

To begin, one’s identification with certain social group is a sign that he or she might share the same character. Social group can better illustrate the very characters the group shares, and amplify them. Recently there are a trending personality test called the MBTI, where people are categorized into 16 personalities, which are different in many aspects such as ways of thinking, inward or outward etc. The test also reflects the advantages and shortcomings of the 16 groups of people. Such classification is quite effective that companies actually do the test on candidates to better know whether they fit certain job. With the classification of the test, people actually acquire a sense of social identification, and they tend to find out their hidden characters, so that they can better define themselves.

Next, social groups are good at helping out lost people. Failure is never a rare thing to everyone, and people might encounter it, large or small, several times in the life span. But sometimes, the failure is just too serious to recover from. For example, a surgeon might not hold the burden the first time he cannot save one’s life in the surgery room. He might get his mind lost, become depressed and even quit his career as a great life saver. Always, his colleagues, other experienced surgeons who have already experience such, would be the best remedy to get him right. Those help is based on the surgeon’s identification of the social group, which in this case is the job title, surgeon.

However, besides seek for one’s definition from the social group, one should always take a look inside. Every person is unique and every person are more than the one that social group defines us. It should be accepted that sense of difference are found in the social group besides the sense of identification. And in this case, a self reflection is needed. The process of defining oneself is a dynamic process of revision. Sometimes one may disagree with the previous definition and sometimes one tend to compromise. And this process is something that social identification cannot provide.

To sum up, finding the definition of ourselves is the life-long mission, where identification of social group is a crucial part. But besides the social identification, the look outside, we should never forget a inside look, to clear the conflicts and make a better revision of self definition. Most importantly, the two directions are equally important.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 248, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'tests'?
Suggestion: tests
...cently there are a trending personality test called the MBTI, where people are categ...
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Line 5, column 448, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[1]
Message: The adverb 'Always' is usually not used at the beginning of a sentence.
... quit his career as a great life saver. Always, his colleagues, other experienced surg...
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Line 5, column 516, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'experienced'.
Suggestion: experienced
...r experienced surgeons who have already experience such, would be the best remedy to get h...
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Line 9, column 210, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...he look outside, we should never forget a inside look, to clear the conflicts and...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, first, however, if, look, may, so, for example, such as, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2481.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 490.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06326530612 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70488508055 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85304735625 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520408163265 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 776.7 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.0700112928 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.5517241379 118.986275619 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8965517241 23.4991977007 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.31034482759 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.164928406685 0.243740707755 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0426445559963 0.0831039109588 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0421337788055 0.0758088955206 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0914597006085 0.150359130593 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0221982448785 0.0667264976115 33% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.1392134831 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.8420337079 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 100.480337079 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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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