You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Write about the following topic:
Is freedom of speech necessary in a free society?
Give reasons for your answer.
Write at least 250 words.
In the last decade, there has been considerable debate over the role of free speech in a free society. Some object to absolute freedom of speech. Others advocate free speech, arguing that the freedom of speech is the single most important political right of citizens in a civilized society. Whilst I believe that there are strong arguments on both sides, I would suggest that freedom of speech should be protected in all but extreme circumstances.
The freedom of speech is important at all levels in a society. Yet it is most important for the governments. A government which does not know what the people feel and think is in a dangerous position. This is how the communist regimes of Eastern Europe were toppled in the 1980s. The same is happening again in other regions of the world today. The governments that muzzle free speech run a risk of pushing their people to behave destructively or to rebel.
Furthermore, without free speech no political action is possible and no resistance to injustice and oppression is possible. Without free speech elections would have no meaning at all. Policies of contestants become known to the public and become responsive to public opinion only by virtue of free speech. Between elections the freely expressed opinions of citizens help restrain oppressive rule. Without this freedom it is futile to expect political freedom or consequently economic freedom.
In conclusion, I believe that the importance of free speech as a basic and valuable characteristic of a free society cannot be underestimated. It may be challenging for society to allow differences of opinion out into the open; however, the consequences of restricting free speech are likely to be more damaging in the longer term.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-09 | winstoncheng | 67 | view |
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'consequently', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'in conclusion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.228295819936 0.247107183377 92% => OK
Verbs: 0.157556270096 0.155533422707 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.131832797428 0.0946595960268 139% => OK
Adverbs: 0.032154340836 0.0501214627716 64% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0225080385852 0.0437548338989 51% => OK
Prepositions: 0.138263665595 0.122226691241 113% => OK
Participles: 0.032154340836 0.0403226058552 80% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.91686360759 2.80594681477 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0289389067524 0.0326793684256 89% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.11575562701 0.0861772015684 134% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.016077170418 0.021408717616 75% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0128617363344 0.011925033212 108% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1738.0 1933.35771543 90% => OK
No of words: 286.0 316.048096192 90% => OK
Chars per words: 6.07692307692 6.12580529183 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.20517956788 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.426573426573 0.374742101984 114% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.293706293706 0.28420135186 103% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.192307692308 0.203846283523 94% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.136363636364 0.137316102897 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91686360759 2.80594681477 104% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 176.037074148 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.548951048951 0.56093040696 98% => OK
Word variations: 56.1201535777 60.7387585426 92% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0891783567 106% => OK
Sentence length: 16.8235294118 20.7743622355 81% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.9742997022 49.517814964 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.235294118 127.492653851 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8235294118 20.7743622355 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.470588235294 0.814263465372 58% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 46.1941587824 49.1944974215 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.87878787879 1.69124875643 111% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.291319419259 0.332605444948 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.106024131282 0.102741220458 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0764659066017 0.0668466124924 114% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.545267133557 0.534860350844 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.139070087423 0.148594505496 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127780473127 0.134430193775 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0568821056517 0.0742795772207 77% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.346873289234 0.324371583561 107% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.085970774047 0.0638462369009 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.210902033163 0.228012699653 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0404953076549 0.058150111329 70% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.68436873747 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.41683366733 59% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 5.90881763527 51% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.5751503006 116% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 1.9629258517 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 6.0 10.4468937876 57% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.