Claim It is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero Reason The reputation of anyone who is subjected to media scrutiny will eventually be diminished Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree o | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Claim: It is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.

Reason: The reputation of anyone who is subjected to media scrutiny will eventually be diminished.

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.

Once a hero, always a hero. This is a famous dialogue from a comic book based movie and perfectly suits the scenario. The prompt claims that a living person can no longer stay a hero for long and their reputation will be eventually tarnished. In my opinion, I don't agree with the claim for three reasons.

Hero is a term associated with an individual who has done extraordinary things in their lives which have directly or indirectly impact the society. Once a person is termed a hero, it's a celebration for his exemplary achievements. No one can take away these glorious feats of human excellence no matter how the next 20 years of their lives shape. To illustrate, Alan Turing was a World War 2 hero for the British for breaking the enigma code. His work helped save millions of lives and win the war. He was publicly praised as a hero and was knighted. Though his sexual orientation being homosexual wasn't widely accepted, it was his peers and other followers who discerned with the fact and continued to acknowledge his achievements. Many media outlets tarnished his reputation and termed him a criminal, but the public was wary of feats and war time heroics and didn't cave in to the wrong portrayal of his demeanour. The modern society is knowledged and double checks every fact before accepting.
The above example shows how public always stays by their heroes irrespective of the multiple attempts made by the media.

Further, people perform heroic acts as they term important at that particular situation, not to please the public. So no matter what the society deems them, a true hero will continue to work towards the betterment of the society. To illustrate, military officers in Kashmir, a small state in India continue to risk their lives and save the public from terrorists. The media portrays the military in a negative sense causing hatred among the general public and causing them to revolt, take out protests against the very people who are risking their lives to protect them. The army officials, continue to work and protect the people irrespective of the response from public. The example illustrates how real heroes continue to help the society and are no longer worried about the backlash they have to face at the hands of media.

One might argue that, media has a very strong presence in the public and any claims made by them will eventually force the society to accept that one was wrongly termed as a hero. In case of people like Tiger Woods, Donald Trump ,etc where their checkered pasts were exposed in public, they were immediately treated as villains. This is rightly so as a true hero is never involved in any illegal or morally corrupt activity. They may no longer be heroes as they weren't one in the first place considering the activities they were involved in. The media scrutiny has a very powerful impact on how the life of a celebrated personality is portrayed. But a true hero will always remain, as they won't have any dark side to their lives and will be celebrated over the coming centuries.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
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...ociety. Once a person is termed a hero, its a celebration for his exemplary achieve...
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Suggestion: wasn't
...his sexual orientation being homosexual wasnt widely accepted, it was his peers and o...
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Suggestion: didn't
... wary of feats and war time heroics and didnt cave in to the wrong portrayal of his d...
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Suggestion: portray
...e the public from terrorists. The media portrays the military in a negative sense causin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, so, in my opinion, in the first place

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2516.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 527.0 442.535393258 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77419354839 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79129216042 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54799639822 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510436432638 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 801.0 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1145611669 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.7692307692 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2692307692 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.23076923077 5.21951772744 43% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22924823048 0.243740707755 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0651438582178 0.0831039109588 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0540366046442 0.0758088955206 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131283226249 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0576854931306 0.0667264976115 86% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, so, in my opinion, in the first place

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