Major cities represent the virtues, ideals and characteristics of a society, a state, or a country. The author makes this assumption in the prompt and states that one must study the popular and major cities to understand the important characteristics of the society these cities belong to. I disagree with this statement and would like to argue that a particular society functions as a whole, with commensurate importance to be given to all the cities of the society for the following reasons.
Major cities surely captivate the attention of critics analysing a particular society as they are colossal, renowned, economically wealthier and cosmopolitan. This does not mean that the smaller cities do not have any influence on the characteristics of the society. For instance, if we consider the country of India as a society, we can argue that the smaller cities of India have a substantial contribution to shaping India as the nation it is. The major cities of India like Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata have a western outlook to them and are considered as English-speaking countries of the nation. They have a fast-paced life, driven by avarice. The smaller cities of India on the other hand are more cultural, bucolic and the residents speak regional languages. The pastoral lands and peaceful life define these cities. Indeed India, due to the influence of these smaller cities is considered as a country of diverse culture and is the country with highest number of languages. Smaller cities, therefore, have a lot of influence on a society and must also be studied.
Studying only the major cities might not result in getting an overall picture of the idea for a society. For instance, the major cities might convey some idea but that idea might not hold water for the entire society. For example, in a particular state, the major cities might give an impression of industrialism and the critics would consider the state to be an industrial state. This might not be the case as the smaller cities, which together constitute the bulk of the state, might be agrarian and more agriculture focused. Another example which could be given is that when studying a particular state, the language used by the major cities of the states might be English but if the smaller cities are studied, it might be the case that the majority of residents are native language speakers and do not even understand English. Such a society cannot be termed as an English speaking society.
This is not to say that a lot of preference should be given to smaller cities over the major cities of a society. Major cities play an important and crucial role towards the outlook of a particular society but are not the sole entities to do so. Mumbai, a major city of Maharashtra, for instance is largely responsible about how the state of Maharashtra functions and takes decisions. It certainly has a huge impact on the state.
In conclusion, it cannot be asserted whether smaller cities or major cities are the only factors developing a society. It is important to consider both the type of cities when studying the characteristics of a particular society.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, so, therefore, for example, for instance, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2623.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 529.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9584120983 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79583152331 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84256470443 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.398865784499 0.4932671777 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 853.2 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.8058234466 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.291666667 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0416666667 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.95833333333 5.21951772744 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.314784129076 0.243740707755 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107985470609 0.0831039109588 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102584777685 0.0758088955206 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.230582665762 0.150359130593 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108423446973 0.0667264976115 162% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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