"People most respect the powerful not when they exercise their power, but when they refrain from exercising it."
Write an essay in which you develop and support a position on the statement above. In writing your essay, you should consider both when the statement may be true and when it may be false.
Respect can be displayed in many various forms. From awe at a person’s achievements to tremble of fear at the potential misuse of the person’s power, respect is usually directed to the powerful. Some argue that people most respect the powerful not when they exercise their power, but when they refrain from exercising it. While some powerful people are shown reverence and lauded for choosing not to use their power, many are truly respected when they fully exercise the power in their hands.
It is true that some powerful people, such as social leaders, are lionized for their refrained use of power. For example, Gandhi, who led the way to Indian independence through peaceful measures, had the potential of achieving the same goal through more violent ways. With many followers and such significant influence, he could have chosen to revolt against the oppressing government. While this can be seen as abstaining from use of his potential power, it would be more correct to interpret it as him fully exercising his power. He exercised the power he gained from the support of others to gain independence of India; his activism strongly suggests that his power was in fact, fully utilized, just not in a violent way. Therefore, leaders, or people with power, are respected and receive accolades when they exercise their power in the socially accepted way.
On the other hand, respect can be shown in form of fear. One example of fearful respect would be the one North Koreans feel for their leader, Jeong Un Kim. As the dictator of North Korea, he deifies himself and enjoys his sole power and leadership in the country. With his numerous propagandas and public display of his power, such as public executions of traitors, he has succeeded to gain his respect through fear. North Koreans accept him as the leader partially due to the fact that they would get punished if they don’t. As shown by his dictatorship, some powerful people are respected and viewed with fear when their power is in use.
In conclusion, the powerful are respected when they fully exercise their power, either in a way that advances society or in a way that makes others tremble in fear. As shown by Gandhi and Dictator Kim, it is clear that powerful people, such as social leaders, are viewed in reverence when their power is utilized. A powerful person who refrains from power may not be actually doing so, as in Gandhi’s case.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Consider replacing "in a violent way" with adverb for "violent"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, may, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, in fact, such as, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => 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: 2026.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 412.0 442.535393258 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91747572816 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50530610838 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56772715362 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 215.323595506 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.444174757282 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 621.0 704.065955056 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.4104030673 60.3974514979 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.631578947 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6842105263 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.36842105263 5.21951772744 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.347807661958 0.243740707755 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139184565329 0.0831039109588 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.13070522664 0.0758088955206 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.272578690314 0.150359130593 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.105803284609 0.0667264976115 159% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 100.480337079 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 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.