All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engagestudents in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems.

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All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage
students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems.

I agree that it would serve the interests of all nations to establish a global university for the
purpose of solving the world's most persistent social problems. Nevertheless, such a university
poses certain risks which all participating nations must be careful to minimize--or risk defeating
the university's purpose.
One compelling argument in favor of a global university has to do with the fact that its faculty
and students would bring diverse cultural and educational perspectives to the problems they
seek to solve. It seems to me that nations can only benefit from a global university where
students learn ways in which other nations address certain soda] problems-successfully or not.
It might be tempting to think that an overly diversified academic community would impede
communication among students and faculty. However, in my view any such concerns are
unwarranted, especially considering the growing awareness of other peoples and cultures
which the mass media, and especially the Internet, have created. Moreover, many basic
principles used to solve enduring social problems know no national boundaries; thus a useful
insight or discovery can come from a researcher or student from any nation.
Another compelling argument for a global university involves the increasingly global nature
of certain problems. Consider, for instance, the depletion of atmospheric ozone, which has
wanned the Earth to the point that it threatens the very survival of the human species. Also, we
are now learning that dear-cutting the world's rainforests can set into motion a chain of animal
extinction that threatens the delicate balance upon which all animals--including
humans--depend. Also consider that a financial crisis---or a political crisis or natural disaster
in one country can spell trouble for foreign companies, many of which are now multinational in
that they rely on the labor forces, equipment, and raw materials of other nations.
Environmental, economic, and political problems such as these all carry grave social
consequences--increased crime, unemployment, insurrection, hunger, and so forth. Solving
these problems requires global cooperation--which a global university can facilitate.
Notwithstanding the foregoing reasons why a global university would help solve many of our
most pressing social problems, the establishment of such a university poses certain problems
of its own which must be addressed in order that the university can achieve its objectives. First,
participant nations would need to overcome a myriad of administrative and political
impediments. All nations would need to agree on which problems demand the university's
attention and resources, which areas of academic research are worthwhile, as well as
agreeing on policies and procedures for making, enforcing, and amending these decisions.
Query whether a functional global university is politically feasible, given that sovereign nations
naturally wish to advance their own agendas.
A second problem inherent in establishing a global university involves the risk that certain
intellectual and research avenues would become officially sanctioned while others of equal or
greater potential value would be discouraged, or perhaps even proscribed. A telling example of
the inherent danger of setting and enforcing official research priorities involves the Soviet
government's attempts during the 1920s to not only control the direction and the goals of its
scientists' research but also to distort the outcome of that research---ostensibly for the greatest
good of the greatest number of people. Not surprisingly, during this time period no significant
scientific advances occurred under the auspices of the Soviet government. The Soviet lesson
provides an important caveat to administrators of a global university: Significant progress in
solving pressing social problems requires an open mind to all sound ideas, approaches, and
theories---krespective of the ideologies of their proponents.
A final problem with a global university is that the world's preeminent intellectual talent might
be drawn to the sorts of problems to which the university is charged with solving, while
parochial social problem go unsolved. While this is not reason enough not to establish a global
university, it nevertheless is a concern that university administrators and participant nations
must be aware of in allocating resources and intellectual talent.
To sum up, given the increasingly global nature or the world's social problems, and the
escalating costs of addressing these problems, a global university makes good sense. And,
since all nations would have a common interest in seeing this endeavor succeed, my intuition
is that participating nations would be able to overcome whatever procedural and political
obstacles that might stand in the way of success. As long as each nation is careful not to
neglect its own unique social problems, and as long as the university's administrators are
careful to remain open-minded about the legitimacy and potential value of various avenues of
intellectual inquiry and research, a global university might go along way toward solving many
of the world's pressing social problems.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'nevertheless', 'second', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'as to', 'for instance', 'such as', 'as well as', 'in my view', 'to sum up']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.228901734104 0.240241500013 95% => OK
Verbs: 0.143352601156 0.157235817809 91% => OK
Adjectives: 0.137572254335 0.0880659088768 156% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0473988439306 0.0497285424764 95% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0231213872832 0.0444667217837 52% => OK
Prepositions: 0.100578034682 0.12292977631 82% => OK
Participles: 0.0450867052023 0.0406280797675 111% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.34053819376 2.79330140395 120% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0265895953757 0.030933414821 86% => OK
Particles: 0.00231213872832 0.0016655270985 139% => OK
Determiners: 0.11098265896 0.0997080785238 111% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0265895953757 0.0249443105267 107% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0208092485549 0.0148568991511 140% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 5245.0 2732.02544248 192% => OK
No of words: 781.0 452.878318584 172% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.71574903969 6.0361032391 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.28643331793 4.58838876751 115% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.451984635083 0.366273622748 123% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.361075544174 0.280924506359 129% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.277848911652 0.200843997647 138% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.192061459667 0.132149295362 145% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.34053819376 2.79330140395 120% => OK
Unique words: 370.0 219.290929204 169% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.473751600512 0.48968727796 97% => OK
Word variations: 62.6541274503 55.4138127331 113% => OK
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6194690265 126% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0384615385 23.380412469 128% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.8647824591 59.4972553346 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 201.730769231 141.124799967 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.0384615385 23.380412469 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.692307692308 0.674092028746 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 59.0 4.94800884956 1192% => There are something wrong with the essay format.
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 66.1460159559 51.4728631049 129% => OK
Elegance: 1.75135135135 1.64882698954 106% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.518112437509 0.391690518653 132% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.10527998143 0.123202303941 85% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0635886554907 0.077325440228 82% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.827557327751 0.547984918172 151% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.263323711491 0.149214159877 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.212951743428 0.161403998019 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124861325332 0.0892212321368 140% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.0736513611812 0.385218514788 19% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0725731553708 0.0692045440612 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153984919791 0.275328986314 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101583375903 0.0653680567796 155% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.4325221239 125% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.30420353982 207% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 11.0 3.66592920354 300% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 26.0 13.5995575221 191% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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