Leaders are created by the demands that are placed on them.

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Leaders are created by the demands that are placed on them.

Some people argue that it is demand of a certain era that creates leaders and heroes. Others hold that leaders stand out among ordinary people because of their talents and efforts. These two views are equally important and mutually exclusive. I concede that the births of leaders have much to do with the demands that are placed on them, but it is the specific character and experience of leaders that distinguish them from the masses.

Admittedly, the demands of a certain era call for the emergence of leaders. After World War I, Germany was forced to pay large amount of money to compensate France and other countries that won the cruel war. What’s worse, hit by the Great Depression, the economy of Germany collapsed. The marriage of hyperinflation and skyrocketing employment rates in Germany called for a strong leader who could help Germany overcome difficulties and make Germany great again. Demands in Germany in 1930s precipitated Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.

However, the demands in Germany did not necessarily guarantee Hitler’s grab of power. Why was Hitler, not somebody else, able to successfully exploit the sufferings and hatred of the German people? If we examine Hitler’s life carefully, we will soon find out that Hitler came to his power largely because of his effort and his talent of goading the audience in his speech. His book “My Struggle” documented how he planned every single step to help Germany restore his past glories. Therefore, compared to the demands in that era, Hitler’s efforts and talents of speech played a more crucial role in his road to power.

Faced with the same Great Depression, the U.S. took a different response. The demands in the U.S. were similar to that of the Germany: the nation called for a strong leader who could protect its interest and help the nation go out of trouble. Different to Germany where a dictator rose to power, Roosevelt won the election in 1930s and became the President of the United States. Based on Keynesian theory, Roosevelt put forward many new policies to stimulate economy and the U.S economy bounced steadily. It was Roosevelt’s determination to adopt a set of new and controversial economic policies that pulled U.S economy back on track. This example clearly demonstrates that similar demands could lead to desperate results.

Hitler became the leader of the Germany because of his efforts and talents of speech. Roosevelt came to his power thanks to his embrace of a set of new economic policies that gave American people hope. Another convincing example for my point of view is the great leader of the U.S. Civil Right Movement, Martin Luther King. Some people may say that Dr. King became the leader of the Black People fighting for equality because of the demands placed on him. This statement ignores Dr. King’s personal endeavor and the non-violence demonstration policy he insisted. Were there no Dr. King, there would definitely be another leader for the Civil Right Movement, but we would not have the chance to appreciate iconic public speech of “I have a dream”, and the climax of Civil Right Movement may come much later because of the absence of Dr. King.

To conclude, the creations of leaders are correlated with the demands placed on them. However, history is replete with examples where similar demands gave birth to different kinds of leaders, and we should not exaggerate the effects of the demands. Efforts, talents, and their political or economic policies play a more important role in leaders’ creation.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'therefore', 'as for']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.295754026354 0.240241500013 123% => OK
Verbs: 0.121522693997 0.157235817809 77% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0688140556369 0.0880659088768 78% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0409956076135 0.0497285424764 82% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0439238653001 0.0444667217837 99% => OK
Prepositions: 0.112737920937 0.12292977631 92% => OK
Participles: 0.0190336749634 0.0406280797675 47% => Some participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.74593549948 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0292825768668 0.030933414821 95% => OK
Particles: 0.00292825768668 0.0016655270985 176% => OK
Determiners: 0.0937042459736 0.0997080785238 94% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.01317715959 0.0249443105267 53% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0190336749634 0.0148568991511 128% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3587.0 2732.02544248 131% => OK
No of words: 587.0 452.878318584 130% => OK
Chars per words: 6.11073253833 6.0361032391 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.9222030514 4.58838876751 107% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.403747870528 0.366273622748 110% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.3066439523 0.280924506359 109% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.175468483816 0.200843997647 87% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.11073253833 0.132149295362 84% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74593549948 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Unique words: 289.0 219.290929204 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492333901193 0.48968727796 101% => OK
Word variations: 60.4855360664 55.4138127331 109% => OK
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6194690265 141% => OK
Sentence length: 20.2413793103 23.380412469 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.6040319149 59.4972553346 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.689655172 141.124799967 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2413793103 23.380412469 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.241379310345 0.674092028746 36% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 50.9057745403 51.4728631049 99% => OK
Elegance: 2.07092198582 1.64882698954 126% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267888246972 0.391690518653 68% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.128082913608 0.123202303941 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0824440196504 0.077325440228 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.53772223625 0.547984918172 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.153880825494 0.149214159877 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107991850049 0.161403998019 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109645393649 0.0892212321368 123% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.381832454151 0.385218514788 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0627568808236 0.0692045440612 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200725109299 0.275328986314 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109428701067 0.0653680567796 167% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 21.0 10.4325221239 201% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 14.0 7.22455752212 194% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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