The well-being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority.
Authority in a society is the tool of a government to manage the society itself, keep order in the nation and be sure that everything flows as expected by the governors. Through our history, we have seen many political systems that have brought up different results as regards the well-being of a society: usually, some of them crucially increased it, like democracies, while other, such as dictatorships, often diminished it. This is mainly related to the level of possibility people had to question authority.
To begin with, it seems wise to consider the way democracy enhances the well-being of a nation. In fact, such a political system was originally designed to achieve a government that could be both representative of the larger part of the population and harshly criticized by the opposition. For instance, political science pundits maintain that the stronger the power given to the opposing part, the more consistent the level of democracy.
The direct effect of the role of opposition is, uncontrovertibly, the constant questioning of the decisions made by the present government, thus resulting in more discussed and so perfected policies and acts. The highest instance of these mechanisms is the late 18th French Revolution: by the means of a virulent and extreme action of opposition, people rose up against the king and construed again all the rules and assessments related to government, hence greatly burgeoning freedom, equality and sense of nation, all undoubted aspects of the well-being of a society.
On the other side are all the forms of government that refuse to give any crucial role to opposition, such as kingdoms and dictatorial governments. The first ones, nowadays quite uncommon, represent most of the political forms of our history. They all shared one feature: they could only be enhanced by the kings themselves, only exception being the eventual consultors suggesting the king with their ideas. Being all dependent upon the cunning art and experience of the king, these forms of government could easily wind up in a poorer population , be it for a remiss king or for his wrong (and unquestioned!) decisions.
Dictatorial governments follow the same pattern: they leave no space for dialogue and the one governor is expected to rocket up the well-being levels of his society. What if he has a parochial view on economics? What if people feel abused by the ruler impositions? Of course, this makes it clearly evident that nations need a government to be questioned by its people, so that governors themselves can have a mean to assess their operations.
About dictators, one could concretely argue that the power given to the ruler in such a particular government system are large enough to give him more freedom than other rulers have to accomplish the political goals he seeks for. So did argue, for instance, Socrates. Nevertheless, we have examples that prove this wrong. Mussolini, in the early 20th-century Italy, and Hitler, same period, in Germany. It is undeniable that, mainly thank to the almost unlimited political power they had, they could engender a polished and ordered society with many good aspects. It is also world-wide acknowledged, though, that both the governors ended up being responsible for the worst acts of our recent history, namely, World War II and deportations. Would they have been able to do this in the same way if an opposition or even just the citizens had had chances to stop them and show them where they were erring?
In conclusion, it is to be deemed correct that questioning authority in the form of politics and governors brings fundamental advantages to a society, even if it means hindering the governors and qualifying their powers: this is, in fact, mandatory to ensure that they cannot abuse the well-being of their citizens making them poorer or acting greatly differently from what they expect.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, if, nevertheless, so, thus, well, while, as regards, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, of course, such as, to begin with, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 60.0 33.0505617978 182% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 84.0 58.6224719101 143% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3258.0 2235.4752809 146% => OK
No of words: 637.0 442.535393258 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11459968603 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.02382911018 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91277736372 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 331.0 215.323595506 154% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519623233909 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 1017.0 704.065955056 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.38483146067 251% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.6260104554 60.3974514979 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.75 118.986275619 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5416666667 23.4991977007 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.70833333333 5.21951772744 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => 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: 0.234205214524 0.243740707755 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0595143064282 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0590659278101 0.0758088955206 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122712143766 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0773177092028 0.0667264976115 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 170.0 100.480337079 169% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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