People's attitudes are determined more by their immediate situation or surroundings than by society as a whole.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 y

Society and immediate surroundings, both play an important role in determining the attitudes of people. But, it is through the immediate surroundings that society casts an effect. There are people with diverse philosophies in the same society, which points to difference in their environments.
People’s attitudes are influenced by the economy of the family. Consider two families belong to the same society but having disparate incomes. As money comes easily to rich kids, they do not think before spending. They purchase the things they require without much thought, and even sometimes indulge in impulsive buying of things that have little utilitarian value. Hedonist life-style and carefree attitudes aptly characterise these heirs. On the other hand, kids who grow up in economic family with just enough means to survive, are frugal and prudent with their spendings. They scrutinise various aspects like availability of cheaper alternatives, cost worthiness, durability of a product before buying. They do not spend their hard earned money on frivolous things. In addition, children who grow up in affluent families that participate in various philanthropic activities, are prone to contribute to these activities. They become sensitive to other people’s adversity and hardship. Whereas, meagre income groups who do not practice such altruistic acts, are often inured to the suffering of others. They believe that people should earn by themselves, be resilient in difficult times and not depend on others. Such diverse attitudes among individuals in a same society show that immediate surroundings have a profound effect. Moreover, children who are more easily influenced than adults, pick up traits from their environment and retain certain characteristics in their adulthood.
Society plays an important role in contributing to ideologies like patriotism. For instance, American and Chinese societies are far apart in this aspect. An american prides himself in the fact that his nation allows him the freedom to question on matters which are very close to national pride. Americans can protest against their troops in Iran, doubt if 9/11 was contrived act and even suspect moon landing. Such controversies show that Americans, though patriotic in their heart, are very open to the world about problems within their country. In contrast, a Chinese never impugns the government on its policy of domination on South China Sea by doubting its motives or probity. In fact, Chinese all over the world support their country in all its decisions. This contrast in ideologies can be contributed to societies. However, these traits though encouraged by society, are inculcated in an individual by his immediate surroundings. It is from one’s parents, friends, teachers and other people in one’s life that shape such attitudes. Society as a whole seems to distant to cast an effect by itself. There can be a jingoist American in an otherwise liberal society who is influenced by his family.
Although, society instils in us many of our perspectives, it is the proximate surroundings which have a more pronounced effect on us. We develop different attitudes at an early age depending on economic conditions and economic conditions are immediate surroundings. Cultures encourage patriotism, but it is through our environment that we pick up such valuable qualities. Hence, peoples attitudes are influenced more by immediate surroundings than it is by society.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 166, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'pride'?
Suggestion: pride
...e far apart in this aspect. An american prides himself in the fact that his nation all...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'whereas', 'even so', 'for instance', 'in addition', 'in contrast', 'in fact', 'on the other hand']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.261363636364 0.240241500013 109% => OK
Verbs: 0.133116883117 0.157235817809 85% => OK
Adjectives: 0.102272727273 0.0880659088768 116% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0405844155844 0.0497285424764 82% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0600649350649 0.0444667217837 135% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.12987012987 0.12292977631 106% => OK
Participles: 0.0275974025974 0.0406280797675 68% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.99582014818 2.79330140395 107% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0243506493506 0.030933414821 79% => OK
Particles: 0.00649350649351 0.0016655270985 390% => OK
Determiners: 0.0616883116883 0.0997080785238 62% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00649350649351 0.0249443105267 26% => Some modal verbs wanted.
WH_determiners: 0.0194805194805 0.0148568991511 131% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3474.0 2732.02544248 127% => OK
No of words: 537.0 452.878318584 119% => OK
Chars per words: 6.46927374302 6.0361032391 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81386128306 4.58838876751 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.43947858473 0.366273622748 120% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.359404096834 0.280924506359 128% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.258845437616 0.200843997647 129% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.186219739292 0.132149295362 141% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99582014818 2.79330140395 107% => OK
Unique words: 290.0 219.290929204 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540037243948 0.48968727796 110% => OK
Word variations: 67.2275608304 55.4138127331 121% => OK
How many sentences: 33.0 20.6194690265 160% => OK
Sentence length: 16.2727272727 23.380412469 70% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.195739151 59.4972553346 49% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.272727273 141.124799967 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2727272727 23.380412469 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.393939393939 0.674092028746 58% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 52.2131369562 51.4728631049 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.79166666667 1.64882698954 109% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.377689531378 0.391690518653 96% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0579762528167 0.123202303941 47% => Sentence sentence coherence is low.
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0563182899168 0.077325440228 73% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.382162515715 0.547984918172 70% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.111859865238 0.149214159877 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112753341971 0.161403998019 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0712408048479 0.0892212321368 80% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.328815670134 0.385218514788 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.069087145947 0.0692045440612 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.270218083922 0.275328986314 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0466656408954 0.0653680567796 71% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.88274336283 266% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 9.0 2.70907079646 332% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 13.5995575221 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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