Discussing controversial topics with those with contrasting views is not useful because very few people change their mind when questioned about their core beliefs.
discussing controversial topics with stubborn people holding contrasting ideolgy will always be futile. This prompt suggests, that very few people change their mind when questioned about their core beliefs in a controversial discussion with contrasting views. In my opinion, I strongly agree with this statement and accept that people will be intransigent when their ideologies are questioned in a discussion for the following reasons.
To begin, A person's beliefs and ideologies are strongly rooted in his/her mind as he/she is growing, thus, When they are forced into questioning their beliefs they won't be able to accept the truth and will take any measures to prove the opposition wrong. For example, in India, A senior-citizen named Krishnan was murdered by his own children over a partial condition in his will. He stated that whomever of his children did the most charity work in their life, gets his entire property ,or, if they dont agree, it all should be donated to a orphanage. Furious over this will, Krisnan and his children entered a heated dicussion, and one of his children, who believed that the property to be seprated in equal share between them killed Krishnan that night. The above example illustrates that when involved in a controversial discuusion people with contrasting ideas are unwilling to back down on their beliefs and will go take any bad measures to win the discussion.
Further, even if we assume that the these drastic counter measures taken to prove one's belief is very rare, there are still many ways that people lash out when questioned about their beliefs, instead of changing their mind. One of the main ways is hurting themselves, physically or mentally. For instance, Prabhu was a Indian refugee living in Srilanka. He was a labour in a costruction site. One day, while he was celebrating the tamil festival "pongal" in his house with his family, the neighbours who were citizens of Srilanka started to criticize him with his refugee status and tormented him persistently using abusive words, that he should be celebrating those "incorrect" religious beliefs. This was contionuosly going on, and one day he got involved in a heated discussion with one of those neighbours who was a policeman, and this policeman started to threatedn Prabhu that he willl be punished or deported as a refugee if he wont change his ideologies. Confused between his family's welfare and his beliefs he commited suicide. from this example we can conclude that even if a person is not aggressive toward others when questioned about his beliefs, he might torment himself over changing his mind.
Ofcourse, some might argue that if a person is questioned with proper counter points aginst his beliefs, he might actually consider changing his mind. But, mostly before changing his mind the person will just put him/her self in a confounded state and start getting aggresive before thinking thoroughly as their entire life's belief is put into questioning. Thus, people are very sensitive towards changing their beliefs when qustioned about it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Discussing
discussing controversial topics with stubborn peop...
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Suggestion: ,
... in their life, gets his entire property ,or, if they dont agree, it all should be...
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Suggestion: don't
..., gets his entire property ,or, if they dont agree, it all should be donated to a or...
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Suggestion: an
...dont agree, it all should be donated to a orphanage. Furious over this will, Kris...
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Suggestion: one's
...drastic counter measures taken to prove ones belief is very rare, there are still ma...
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Suggestion: an
...y or mentally. For instance, Prabhu was a Indian refugee living in Srilanka. He w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, so, still, thus, while, for example, for instance, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 78.0 33.0505617978 236% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2589.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 500.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.178 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72870804502 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84926025487 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 790.2 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.4191611031 60.3974514979 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.263157895 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3157894737 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.36842105263 5.21951772744 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.36415734101 0.243740707755 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137200483708 0.0831039109588 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.159197826081 0.0758088955206 210% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.286603632592 0.150359130593 191% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.165036471623 0.0667264976115 247% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.1392134831 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 100.480337079 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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