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.
There is no doubt that people have and look up to heros and role models with the hope of becoming like them someday. With that being stated, I partially agree with the recommendation.
People are believed to be agents of change; positive or negative. A hero and role model are ideally capable of being emulated by the people that look up to them. This “rub-off” effect deposits a major influence on the way people think, act, respond to situations etc. for example, the author and economist, Chimamanda Adichie and Ngozi Iweala respectively represent nothing short of hope for Nigerian women who wish to be as powerful, intellectual, influential, wealthy, highly respected, globally recognized as they are. This is the case for all role models and followers representing different aspects that make up a society. Conversely, a badly-presented Hero will rub off negatively on the people of the Society and as such will portray similar characters.
Furthermore, in terms of opportunity for growth and development of a Society, the highest ideals; role models and Heroes contribute to the extent to which a society develops, attracts foreign attention, investments, etc. Take as an instance, Tony Elumelu is a top role model in Nigeria, he is worthy to be called one, he is of good character, honest, reliable, and earns great remarks from associates that come in contact with him, Tony Elumelu has over the years, brought the attention of foreign investors to develop entrepreneurship in Africa, he has also pulled resources towards the growth of different individuals and their businesses in Nigeria. This is so because people trust him enough to want to impact through him. When people receive so much support from role models and heroes, they will want to imbibe that attitude of impacting others in their lives. On the other hand, a society that models a badly-presented hero will not likely attract growth opportunities from external sources nor have members that portray “act of support” as a catalyst to societal growth.
Looking at a different point of view, there are cases where the heroes and role models are not really worthy of emulation, members of the Society know this and frown greatly at it. For example, heroes that indulge in mischievous and corrupt deeds or those that do the same from behind the scenes deceiving followers until the truth surfaces. This case is an exception for societies where their men and women do not portray the character of their so-called heroes and role models.
In conclusion, individuals’ character can be easily influenced by people around them, the environment, unforeseen circumstances and to crown it all; the people they look up to.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, furthermore, if, look, really, so, for example, in conclusion, no doubt, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2259.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 442.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11085972851 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89310258843 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542986425339 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 708.3 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 86.8689105058 60.3974514979 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.882352941 118.986275619 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64705882353 5.21951772744 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266226635056 0.243740707755 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0888708134341 0.0831039109588 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.078490930839 0.0758088955206 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140407350905 0.150359130593 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0778220818769 0.0667264976115 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.43 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.