The surest indicator of a great nation is represented not by the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but by the general welfare of its people.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
There is an old saying in the Indian culture that translates to - "A country is not made up of earth but by it's people". It is not the glory of highest mountains or vast serene grasslands that make up a country but it is the lives of the people that define the greatness of a country. The prompt suggests that greatness of a nation is attributed to the general well being of its people rather than the acheivements of its rulers, artists, or scientists. I agree with the prompt for the following reasons.
Firstly, I would like to put forward my argument by asking a question; In general, what percentage of the population of a nation does rulers, artists and scientists constitutes? In most cases, the answer would be closer to 1 percent? And in the case of developing countries and under-developed countries where most of the world's population reside, the answer to the question would be close to zero percent. In such highly imbalanced scenarios, is it wise to determine the greatness of a nation only by the acheivements of its rulers, artists and scientists? The answer is definitely no. The reason is plain and simple: the rulers, artists and scientists represents an infinitismally small portion of the population of a nation and it is fatuous to extrapolate the well being of the nation just by the way the elite group of citizens like artists, rulers and scientists are fairing in their lives. It could very well be the case that though this aristotle class of people are doing very well professionally, the rest of the nation would be leading an ardous life doing menial labour. Since the rulers, artists and scientists are not a representative sample of the nation, it would be asinine of us to apprise the greatness of a nation only by their achievements.
I would like to continue upon the point articulated in the previous paragraph i.e; even though the rulers, artists and scientists achieve great success, there is every possibility that the nation's common people lives could be down-tordden. The case of North Korea is a paradigm of such scenario. The country's rulers and scientists are making successfull strides in their nuclear program. Every successful nuclear test is followed by widespread publicity of such tests to show the world that North Korea is not in any way lesser than the likes of highly developed and sophisticated countries like the USA, China etc. It is true that it requires a lot of knowledge and skill to carry out nuclear test successfully and a successfull nuclear test clearly potrays the nation's intellectual capability. However, on the other hand, if we look at the leaked videos and photographs of the lives of the common people of North Korea, one would be appalled to digest the plight of the people. We can find videos of malnutirtioned infants lying beside their wretched parants or wizened old men and women helplessly finding their way out of poverty by doing menial labour. This example reinstates my position that a country's greatness can only be measured by considereing the livelihood of its people and not just the achievements of its rulers, artists or rulers.
However, in the realms of our discussion, we cannot overlook scenarios where the achievements of a nation's rulers, arists and scientists can actually help in determining its greatness. This is especially true in case of the developed countries like the USA, Canada, the UK etc. The lives of the common people in these countries is much better than the ones in developing countries and the achievements of the noble class can help evaluate nations greatness among themselves.
Therefore, as stated, it is the lives of the common people that determine the greatness of a nation and not just the achievements of its rulers, artists and scientists as they comprise a very small portion of the population and hence, they are not a representatoin of the entire nation.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 152, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'of the highest'.
Suggestion: of the highest
...y its people'. It is not the glory of highest mountains or vast serene grasslands tha...
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Line 4, column 323, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'worlds'' or 'world's'?
Suggestion: worlds'; world's
...r-developed countries where most of the worlds population reside, the answer to the qu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, so, therefore, well, in general, by the way, in most cases, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 14.8657303371 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3247.0 2235.4752809 145% => OK
No of words: 659.0 442.535393258 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92716236722 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.06665523852 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91010832903 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.408194233687 0.4932671777 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 990.0 704.065955056 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.5841691567 60.3974514979 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.291666667 118.986275619 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4583333333 23.4991977007 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.08333333333 5.21951772744 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.216799279697 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0714984709498 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0648792552565 0.0758088955206 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148294077641 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0324950238173 0.0667264976115 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.8420337079 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.1743820225 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 146.0 100.480337079 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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