People's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making.
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.
To what extent people could control their own behaviours is still an enigma for psychologists, economists and philosophers. At the end, people certainly desire freedom but are bounded by certain constraints. In today’s capitalist society, every enterprise is trying to gain profit by commercialising every product whether it’s necessary to well being of citizens or not. Though with the recent internet boom in the last few decades we are relatively more aware of the actual facts, the greed of corporations still plague our daily lives.
The purpose of above statement is to bridge the discussion between industrialisation and its effect on modern day employees. Majority of the institutions are now standardised due to influx of computers and automated machines. For example, the behaviour of manual labourers are determined by the pace at which a particular engine works as setup by engineers. The desk workers, too, are compelled to work according to a given set of instructions everyday with not much room for their own creativity. Certain advantages come with this kind of setup such as less error rate and higher rate of production but at the cost of monotonous lifestyle.
Furthermore, the consumers are craftily manipulated by media to buy products and services which they might not even need. Celebrities are often invited to endorse these commercial products to incite people to buy it so that their fans could relate more closely with their idol. Intricately designed showrooms and marketplaces are aesthetically built to attract citizens. Fast food vendors use brightly coloured banners to attract attention and to evoke subconscious hunger which has led to recent rise in obesity and weight related issues. Books are adapted into movies to boost its sales and increase its popularity among public. Though the above examples are not all necessarily negative, it does give a insight how much influence does the external factors have on us. Numerous strategies like these are continuously employed by corporations to trick general public into consuming goods which might even have adverse effect on our well being.
However, with the recent rise in trend of social media, these notorious methods have led to rise of awareness among common people who are now constantly battling against false propaganda. As an illustration, experts in personal finance have offered prudent advice about using credit cards less and spending money within one’s budgets. The ridiculous nature of few products are being exposed on social media platforms like youtube and people have started boycotting those companies. More and more people are retiring early to enjoy life and avoid the rat race which is ultimately designed for the interest of wealthy at the cost of lower middle class. As long as we continue to fight against the malign conduct of corporations, we still have chance to regain our freedom.
Consequently, it is quite true that people’s behaviour might not be fully under their control and is determined by the capitalist environment we live in today which is largely beyond our control, but as long as they realise the cause and confront it head on, the freedom could certainly be regained again.
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- Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free 80
- Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free. 70
- The well-being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority. 83
- Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future. 66
- Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free. 70
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 479, Rule ID: ACTUAL_EXPERIENCE[1]
Message: Use simply 'facts'.
Suggestion: facts
...des we are relatively more aware of the actual facts, the greed of corporations still plague...
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Line 3, column 445, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...ccording to a given set of instructions everyday with not much room for their own creati...
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Line 5, column 705, 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
... all necessarily negative, it does give a insight how much influence does the ext...
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Line 5, column 854, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...ously employed by corporations to trick general public into consuming goods which might even h...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, furthermore, however, if, so, still, well, for example, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2723.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 516.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27713178295 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76609204519 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86745943797 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 301.0 215.323595506 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583333333333 0.4932671777 118% => OK
syllable_count: 863.1 704.065955056 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.8710238216 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.772727273 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4545454545 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.13636363636 5.21951772744 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.156048435527 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0408199456772 0.0831039109588 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0357866755582 0.0758088955206 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0887592425725 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0180773028057 0.0667264976115 27% => 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: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.77 8.38706741573 116% => OK
difficult_words: 163.0 100.480337079 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.