Some people believe that there should be fixed punishments for every type of crime. Others, however, argue that the circumstances of an individual crime and the motivation for committing it should always be taken into account when deciding on the punishment
Discuss both points of view and express your own.
With the triumph of democracy in the XIX and XX centuries, many people who had never been given the opportunity to decide their own fate, let alone someone else’s, faced a new philosophical dilemma: “Should there be a fixed punishment for every crime, or should the details of the criminal’s personal situation be considered in every separate case?”
At first glance, a truly fair system of laws must be based on equal treatment for everyone. After all, one of the underlying principles of democracy is that “all men are created equal …” Hence, every citizen knows what kind of punishment to expect if he or she were to commit a certain crime. So, the mother of four, who robbed a bank to feed her children, will be sentenced to the same five years in jail as a corporate lawyer who embezzled government funds to be able to have a high-class illegitimate affair.
According to the other school of thought, the mother should be sentenced to less time than the lawyer, because she was acting out of desperation, in order to save her children from starvation, while he was just enjoying cheating on his wife. This point of view is in some ways more humane and tries to include the basics of common morality in the system of justice.
Even though the first school of thought is technically fairer than the second, I am a firm adherent of the latter. After all, what crime did the mother’s four children commit, for which they would be sentenced to five years time in an orphanage or forced adoption or some other such atrocity?
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, if, second, so, while, after all, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1300.0 1615.20841683 80% => OK
No of words: 270.0 315.596192385 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81481481481 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77005345781 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.644444444444 0.561755894193 115% => OK
syllable_count: 408.6 506.74238477 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 16.0721442886 44% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 38.0 20.2975951904 187% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 108.302486451 49.4020404114 219% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 185.714285714 106.682146367 174% => OK
Words per sentence: 38.5714285714 20.7667163134 186% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.85714285714 7.06120827912 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.24518551793 0.244688304435 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0921875905752 0.084324248473 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0809738562888 0.0667982634062 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142268586082 0.151304729494 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0594305302931 0.056905535591 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.5 13.0946893788 157% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.37 50.2224549098 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.9 11.3001002004 150% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.21 12.4159519038 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 78.4519038076 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 28.5 9.78957915832 291% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 17.2 10.1190380762 170% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 10.7795591182 158% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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