Unfortunately in contemporary society creating an appealing image has become more important than the reality or truth behind that image

The prompt urges that the importance of the appearance of an image has become more important than the reality or truth behind that image in contemporary society. I mostly agree with this claim and will elaborate on the necessary points to defend my position.

To begin with, it is more important to sell the image than it is to truly represent the true meaning behind something. For example, movies that have been created after the success of a book or novel series often times don't fully convey the message that the original content is trying to send out. Take for instance the Harry Potter movies that were released after the books took the world by storm. Many of the true fans were upset with how Hollywood changed the narrative of the original story. This goes to show that selling tickets at the movie theaters was more important than the reality of what actually happened in the story.

To expand on the point, aside from Harry Potter movies, many other movies have been made based on real stories. Movies have been made about what happened during previous war times such as Top Gun. In this film, we see a representation of what occurred at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. A study from Stanford revealed that majority of the action in these films based on real events are exaggerated and do not truly mirror what actually happened in the past. This is important because many people will be left with a misunderstanding about the actual history of the event. This just goes to show that the importance of an appealing image is more important that representing the reality behind the image.

On the other hand, in contrast to my position, several documentary films on historical events focus more on the actual reality that occurred rather than selling the image for a profit. Take for instance all of the National Geographic movies that have been made on the Ice Age and how wildlife has survived over the thousands of years. However, even though these films intend on presenting the audience with the most realistic image of what happened, they cannot show us exactly what happened if it wasn't recorded. Thus, it is imperative that these documentaries be taken with a grain of salt and individuals realize that it can't possibly truly represent what actually happened without presenting proper documentation of the event.

Nevertheless, although it is true that documentary films can't give us the exact footage, for the reasons that I have described in detail above, it is unfortunate that contemporary society prioritizes creating an appealing images over truly representing the actual reality behind those images.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, however, if, nevertheless, so, thus, as to, for example, for instance, in contrast, such as, in contrast to, it is true, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2185.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 442.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94343891403 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57344463089 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.488687782805 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 702.9 704.065955056 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.1402725798 60.3974514979 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.388888889 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5555555556 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.05555555556 5.21951772744 173% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => 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: 0.327493332944 0.243740707755 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109759893228 0.0831039109588 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.171569527887 0.0758088955206 226% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22362332732 0.150359130593 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128481748645 0.0667264976115 193% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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