Claim: The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models.
Reason: Heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideals.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
Heroes are commonly chosen to be representatives of a nation or a society as they are believed to uphold distinctive qualities that mundane people long for. Therefore, it seems logical to hypothesize that the characters of a society could be distilled by simply examining those symbolic figures as a point of reference. I think, however, we should separate the concept of ‘heroes’ and ‘role model’ dependent on different stage of development or political situation though they are highly correlated and sometimes used interchangeably. By investigation the evident from historical and current context, the advent of a hero could be derived from the demands of rescue during social upheavals while role models are more commonly used in nowadays context.
From the war history, we could observe that the term ‘heroes’ were mostly attached to situations where people were desperately in demand for a savior, who possesses the quality of a warrior to ward off the evil force to restore peace for commoners. Responsively, heroic figures who demonstrate exceptional bravery and strategic mentality, were likely to be created to fulfill that desire of the general public. As a matter of fact, there is no lack of conspicuous examples in the recent history underpinning this assessment. During the Vietnam War, Ho Chi Minh with his outstanding personalities represents the resilient, brave and country-loving spirit has completely showcased the characteristic of the Vietnamese people.
In the society of peace and growth, heroes carry a different duty and meaning, which prone towards being the social role model or national image for the world. As the vibrant advancement of different fields and industries, who we consider role model nowadays is somehow dependent on our personal preference and area of interest. For instance, some would consider Bill Gates a role model because of his professional success and his philanthropic contribution while some might vote for famous politician like Hilary Clinton as she delegates a consensus ideology with her supporters. Despite the different measures for selecting role models, we could conclude that these role models are somehow a mirror of the preferred ideals for certain group of people.
The conclusion, however, should not be drawn imprudently. As people hold high regards to those who have been crafted as ‘hero’, their high pedestals could somehow be used for social conspiracy or political spam. With the immense power of social media, we could not ignore the fact that some heroes are merely false images created by social media to convince us that these political figures are trustworthy for our next vote. We could further elaborate this point with the example of Malaysian Prime Minister, in spite of the egregious controversy for bribery and misuse of public fund, he was shaped by social media to be the role model of the country as being charitable and caring towards it’s citizen. This particular individual, though, should not be regarded as representative of the characteristics for the entire Malaysia.
In conclusion, heroes and role models are both exceptional individuals, who has the potent to demonstrate the essential qualities of a country, yet have to be scrutinized diligently on case to case basis.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 752, Rule ID: IN_NOWADAYS[1]
Message: nowadays is used without 'in'. Use simply: 'nowadays'.
Suggestion: nowadays
...hile role models are more commonly used in nowadays context. From the war history, we c...
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Line 3, column 406, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...e created to fulfill that desire of the general public. As a matter of fact, there is no lack ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, still, therefore, while, for instance, i think, in conclusion, as a matter of fact, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2809.0 2235.4752809 126% => OK
No of words: 519.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41233140655 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7730044521 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1439395571 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 280.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539499036609 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 911.7 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 54.2011571103 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 156.055555556 118.986275619 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.8333333333 23.4991977007 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 5.21951772744 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175843742819 0.243740707755 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0597555781877 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0492142995926 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106877601357 0.150359130593 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0613591323686 0.0667264976115 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.5 14.1392134831 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 26.14 48.8420337079 54% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 12.1743820225 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.69 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.92 8.38706741573 118% => OK
difficult_words: 161.0 100.480337079 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 11.8971910112 134% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 19.0 11.7820224719 161% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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