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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Modern society provides us a lot of chances to live in another society far from our hometown to experience a totally different culture. But before actually going to be part of that society, we had better to understand its characters first. It is an interesting but also intricate problem for us to find out the best way to understand the characters of a society. In this statement, the author argued that the best way to understand the characters of a society is through a detailed examination of its heroes or role models. However, though there are some merits in this argument which I appreciate, I do insist that there are other ways to understand a society’s culture, and it is oversimplified to only focus on the role models of a society in order to figure out its culture and character.
Some people in favor of this argument may dispute that since a man/woman is regarded as a hero in this society, he/she must possess the most laudable personalities that all the members in this society respect and admire. I have to admit that this is quite true. For example, if a firefighter who have sacrificed his own life in order to save other people in a fire, and he was praised as a hero by everyone in this society, it would be intuitive that the society must value bravery, self-sacrifice and commitment to others’ interests as precious and admirable personalities. Therefore, it is undeniable that we can find out the most cherished characters in a society by observing its heroes.
However, are those heroes the only ones that represent the society’s most cherished characters? Hardly. For instance, by inspecting a normal family, we may find out that the parents tried to teach their children to be integrate and honest in a lot of tiny details in their everyday life. Nevertheless, it would be absurd to call the parents in this family as “heroes”, but we do get a hint by digging into normal residents’ daily life, which tells us some of the society’s most accepted characters.
In addition to that, are those cherished characters the only ones that represent the society’s characters? Again, hardly. The word “character” itself has such a broad range of meanings that can hardly be regarded as only those widely cherished personalities. To exemplify that, take a popular trend in a society as an example: if quite an amount of people in a society enjoy living in the countryside instead of in a big city, it might indicate that people in this society prefer a quiet time within the nature, and the would like to lead a relaxed pace of life instead of a hectic one in a big city. This kind of preference of relaxing lifestyle can also be considered as a typical character of a society, which in turn shows us that through inspecting to the residents’ daily life and the social trends, we can also find the characters of one society, instead of by focusing on its heroes only.
To put it together, it is reasonable to examine the characters of heroes for the purpose of figuring out the characters of the society as a whole. However, depending on this approach only, it would be biased and incomplete. By observing regular people’s life, as well as some trends in the society, we can also find a lot of interesting characters of this society which are probably not discoverable from the images of those heroes.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...idents' daily life, which tells us some of the society's most accepted characters...
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...t the society's characters? Again, hardly. The word 'character' itself ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, well, for example, for instance, in addition, kind of, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 67.0 33.0505617978 203% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 93.0 58.6224719101 159% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2813.0 2235.4752809 126% => OK
No of words: 581.0 442.535393258 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84165232358 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90957651803 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09861154808 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.426850258176 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 924.3 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 23.0359550562 130% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 88.5918167778 60.3974514979 147% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.052631579 118.986275619 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.5789473684 23.4991977007 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.36842105263 5.21951772744 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261357417601 0.243740707755 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103593287622 0.0831039109588 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0887306963407 0.0758088955206 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176825206141 0.150359130593 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0938972557502 0.0667264976115 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.1392134831 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 48.8420337079 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.2143820225 125% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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