In any situation, progress requires discussion among people who have contrasting points of view. 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 de

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In any situation, progress requires discussion among people who have contrasting points of view.

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.

The issue presented above is a contentious one. While many people might argue that discussion with the opposite faction might reduce the general impact of the idea and could nullify the whole agenda of the idea presented, I, on the other hand think that this discussion has resulted in the development of our world as a whole. While some may take examples of Steve Jobs whose visionary ideas changed the world, I'd like to draw their focus to the millions of other companies that have been flourishing because they have discussions among each other to take their companies forward.

The basis of any democratic country is the quid pro quo among the opposing factions of the legislature of the country. Taking an example of the USA, the main parties are the Republicans and the Democrats. Any bill that has to be passed needs to go through the parliament where the opposing factions mull over it to come to a common ground where both the factions are satisfied that the bill would be good for the country. If any one of the factions bring a preposterous bill, then discussion with the opposing party would obviously help to make the law that is formulated better than the bill that was proposed. This kind of structure of the parliament of the country has made the USA what it is today.

The more strengthening argument can be made by taking the opposite scenario as in the example above. In a democratic country, the people in the parliament debate over every aspect the other party introduces and as a result we get laws passed; however, in an autocratic country whatever the person in-charge wants, could be the law. There is no group of people who have contrasting idea to the despot's and as a result it hinders the overall development of the country. Let us take a few examples starting at the present day North Korea. The government is ruled by a tyrant who does what he pleases and people would argue that the country has been progressing. However, just a few technological advances does not justify the massive human rights violation, and hence the progress that the country has achieved is only superficial one. Another example in a similar scenario could be the country Saudi Arabia where the women of the country still have to hide from public under a burka. Since it is a Muslim country, no one even dares to oppose the law and that has resulted in the emigration of many women from the country - similar to that of the people of North Korea.

I can understand how some people might have reservations agreeing to the idea above. They might argue that discussion doesnt result in progress. And I agree with them at a certain level. An example that could be taken is the infamous disagreement between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla regarding the availability of energy as a free resource. As a result, we still are paying the electrical bills which is definitely not in the direction of progress. However, had it not been for that discussion among two leading scientists, we probably would not have many of the appliances that we have right now.
The discussion among people who have contrasting ideas has made the world what it is today. Few bad instances might have happened during the long journey of development of the world but a few do not outweigh the many and as we can see, this discussion has made world a better, easier and safer place to live in.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, however, if, may, regarding, so, still, then, while, as to, kind of, as a result, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 11.3162921348 203% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2785.0 2235.4752809 125% => OK
No of words: 593.0 442.535393258 134% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69645868465 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93473315629 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56989330455 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450252951096 0.4932671777 91% => OK
syllable_count: 883.8 704.065955056 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.3881439942 60.3974514979 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.041666667 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7083333333 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.625 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171089495107 0.243740707755 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0536814588042 0.0831039109588 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0460566469141 0.0758088955206 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10581984293 0.150359130593 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0368163423613 0.0667264976115 55% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.28 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 11.8971910112 147% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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