To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.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 deve

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To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.

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.

I have lived almost my entire life in the city of Delhi. I have made lots of friends coming from such a myriad of backgrounds and places I had never heard of. Asking them about their reasons for shifting to Delhi, all of them had the exact same answer—-Better jobs for their parents and better schooling for them . And I realised that my story was not any different. This is when it struck me—-Delhi does not have a lot of people of its own———it was an amalgam of people coming from other places just to live a better life here.

Such a realisation makes me feel that our cities are probably not capable on their to tell its people’s stories . Any city is essentially a place where people go to make a living. So how can one’s workspace be an appropriate of one’s individuality? Thus, I disagree with the given statement which entirely credits the cities for being a true representative of the people .

In layman terms, cities are marked by tall buildings, wide and uniform roads, industries, posh marketing spots and malls. So a well developed city is the one which has attained quite high standards such characteristics and is extravagant and spectacular to look at. Well, this is my point. All cities around the world look more or less the same. Same posh malls, same skyscrapers and the same extravagance! This lavish image doesn’t really tell a story, it doesn’t really speak out about its origins, it does not elucidate the world of its glorious history. One has to go the rural areas to attain knowledge about the people. It is the rural areas which tell us who the people of society really are——their beliefs, their morals, their habits, their strengths, their weaknesses, what pleasures them or what troubles them. They are the ones which can help an outsider paint a better picture of who we really are.

One even gets to learn about various art forms be it music, dance, craft work or even an indigenous art which we never get to witness anywhere else in the world. In spite of such art being so unique and spectacular, it does not really get a commensurate representation and anyone who does not visit these rural or even sub urban areas does not really get a chance to have a look at such amazing art forms which actually characterise the real society our people are a part of.

I do not mean to undermine the importance of developed cities in any manner. At the end, it’s our cities which are providing jobless people an opportunity to earn a living. They are the ones which are primarily responsible for the economic and technological advancements, further allowing the country to grow as a whole. What I am actually trying to say is, making cities just about such “developments” will preclude us from providing the world with our true representation. A lot many questions are raised when government wishes to provide various organisations with funds for preserving our history! It is actually quite important to preserve our monuments, our art, our culture and make an effort to not let them die. We need to find ways of blending the city life with what is unique of our society we live in and believe me this fusion will be what would really set us apart from others and show the world who we truly are.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, if, look, really, so, thus, well, apart from, as to, in spite of, more or less

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 65.0 33.0505617978 197% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2724.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 572.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76223776224 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89045207381 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87504930508 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 276.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.482517482517 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 846.9 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 6.24550561798 336% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.3033937663 60.3974514979 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.96 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.88 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.52 5.21951772744 67% => 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 : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.104975389315 0.243740707755 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0343710600851 0.0831039109588 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0381416875627 0.0758088955206 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0635361863062 0.150359130593 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0217266910494 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: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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