The powerful are most respected 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.
It is believed that people are most powerful when you don’t know the extend they can go with their resources. Yes this is always true in most cases in our age. Although, people that believe in military leadership will tell you that action speaks louder than voice. But, most of the time, this form of leaderships have brought only ruin to those that practised it. Refraining from using power is truly the only assured way of gaining respect.
The current Russian president Is a perfect example of how refraining from using your power is the best form of leadership. In world politics, Putin have always been seen as one of the most powerful people on earth. Mainly because of how he managed to have kept Russia out of war and still maintained influence without much force. This view of him changed few months ago, when he decided to go on war with the Ukraine government. Some might consider his action as defending his country’s interest. But, are we going to call that defence of interest in the real sense? When many lives are being destroyed by that particular use of force. This is how good and bad exercising power can be in the destructive sense. Showing that it is not the best way to earn respect. Instead, you will achieve the opposite.
This particular action of Putin, is what brings many men to bow at the foot of the current united states president. Biden handled the crisis of Ukraine/Russia so intelligently that it can never be forgotten in few years. He could have decided to attack Russia, as a way of showing support to Ukraine which would have resulted to a 20th century world that we all dreaded. But, he showed intelligence and by doing so, he saved our planet and will always be remembered for that. Considering how the third world countries and many other economies are going to suffer the consequences of that war. He said No! To it.
Another good example of how refraining from exercising your power is the best way to achieve respect is by refraining from using it is the story of a formal president of one of Africa biggest countries. In Nigeria, a sitting president have never lost election before in the history of the country. This happened for the first time in 2019, when president Goodluck lost to the current sitting president of the country in a general election. He had every reason to appeal the election or at the least refuse to hand over power. Considering few irregularities noticed in the election result. But, knowing the impeding danger on the citizens, he decided not to do so. Instead he made the statement ”that my political ambition does not worth the life of any Nigeria”. We all respect him for that today because it is rare to see leaders from Africa with such level of selflessness and sense of responsibility to his citizens. This particular action earned him the UN ambassador of peace and showed many people how respect is actually gotten from refraining from using power.
We can all agree that Inaction sometimes can be the best form of defence, this world leaders in my example and many others are perfect examples that support the fact that respect is best earned by refraining on exercising power. Especially, when it is going to cost lives and properties.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 66, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...e are most powerful when you don’t know the extend they can go with their resources. Yes t...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 161, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Although” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...s always true in most cases in our age. Although, people that believe in military leader...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 568, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “When” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... defence of interest in the real sense? When many lives are being destroyed by that ...
^^^^
Line 4, column 664, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Instead,
... the citizens, he decided not to do so. Instead he made the statement ”that my politica...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 695, Rule ID: EN_UNPAIRED_BRACKETS
Message: Unpaired symbol: '“' seems to be missing
...to do so. Instead he made the statement ”that my political ambition does not wort...
^
Line 4, column 694, Rule ID: NO_SPACE_CLOSING_QUOTE[1]
Message: There should be a space after a closing quote.
Suggestion: ” that
...to do so. Instead he made the statement ”that my political ambition does not worth th...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 761, Rule ID: EN_UNPAIRED_BRACKETS
Message: Unpaired symbol: '“' seems to be missing
...n does not worth the life of any Nigeria”. We all respect him for that today beca...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, if, so, still, third, in most cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 63.0 33.0505617978 191% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2668.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 565.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72212389381 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87542086881 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57339654967 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469026548673 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 830.7 704.065955056 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 6.24550561798 272% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.2370786517 158% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.7951441194 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.375 118.986275619 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.65625 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.78125 5.21951772744 34% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214869277845 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0529773881774 0.0831039109588 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.055058882859 0.0758088955206 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131979369241 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0598518240256 0.0667264976115 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 14.1392134831 68% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.8420337079 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.1743820225 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.8 12.1639044944 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 66, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...e are most powerful when you don’t know the extend they can go with their resources. Yes t...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 161, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Although” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...s always true in most cases in our age. Although, people that believe in military leader...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 568, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “When” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... defence of interest in the real sense? When many lives are being destroyed by that ...
^^^^
Line 4, column 664, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Instead,
... the citizens, he decided not to do so. Instead he made the statement ”that my politica...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 695, Rule ID: EN_UNPAIRED_BRACKETS
Message: Unpaired symbol: '“' seems to be missing
...to do so. Instead he made the statement ”that my political ambition does not wort...
^
Line 4, column 694, Rule ID: NO_SPACE_CLOSING_QUOTE[1]
Message: There should be a space after a closing quote.
Suggestion: ” that
...to do so. Instead he made the statement ”that my political ambition does not worth th...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 761, Rule ID: EN_UNPAIRED_BRACKETS
Message: Unpaired symbol: '“' seems to be missing
...n does not worth the life of any Nigeria”. We all respect him for that today beca...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, if, so, still, third, in most cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 63.0 33.0505617978 191% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2668.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 565.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72212389381 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87542086881 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57339654967 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469026548673 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 830.7 704.065955056 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 6.24550561798 272% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.2370786517 158% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.7951441194 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.375 118.986275619 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.65625 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.78125 5.21951772744 34% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214869277845 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0529773881774 0.0831039109588 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.055058882859 0.0758088955206 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131979369241 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0598518240256 0.0667264976115 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 14.1392134831 68% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.8420337079 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.1743820225 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.8 12.1639044944 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.