Claim Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system Reason Laws cannot change what is in people s hearts or minds

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Claim: Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system.
Reason: Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts or minds

The author infers that laws and the legal system can not solve many problems in modern society in that they cannot change people's minds. I concede that Laws had solved many major problems such as abolition of slavery, however I agree with the statement in that laws have many gaps and cannot control all people's behavior. What is more, punishments of laws can be perceived differently among people and allows some people who do not regard punishment as crucial to commit the criminal.

To begin with, I admit that laws had changed people's moral standards and actually solved some major problems. For example, let us consider United States before law forced to emancipate all slaves. Before the law had established, white people took it for granted to treat black people as inferior and black people also thought it was natural to be slave. Even though white people did not change their think immediately, the law forced to set all slaves free and finally white people nowadays do not doubt that racism is unmoral. If laws were not published by Lincoln, the society may still ripe with slavery and racism. Likewise, laws sometimes force people's behavior and correspondingly solves some problems.

However, even though it is true that law can actually solve major problems, it does not imply that laws solely can solve many problems of modern society. Laws itself have limits and can not catch minor details such as water usage or fuel usage of each people. Without changes in people's mind, it is likely that people can commit undesirable actions which law misses to catch, for their own sake. For example, nowadays lack of water is the one of the most serious problems which should be managed. In countries in Africa many people dies because of water shortage. However, even though laws itself can limit maximum usage of waters for every countries or continents, laws can not solely force every people in water-rich countries not to use water prodigally because it is too minor for laws to detect. In this case, to solve the prodigal water usage, not a laws but people's recognition of water shortage is needed. Unless, people recognize gravity of the problem and voluntarily spare water, it is hard to manage the problem merely by law and legal system.

What is more, there are some problems which laws can not solve even though laws forbid the particular behavior. As punishment's magnitude is perceived differently among people because of several reasons such as different wealth, different environment, etc, some people might think punishment is not too strong to limit their behaviors. A man with great wealth, for example, may commit the criminal if fine punishment of the criminal is too small to burden the man. Likewise, a person who regard penitentiary as comfortable to live anyway, will not practice illegal behaviors merely because it is likely that the court's verdict will be imprisonment. To block these illegal actions, change in their minds above all else, should be induced.

In conclusion, even though I concede that laws can fix some problems many problems of modern society requires change in people's think and values rather than the stringent legal systems based on above mentioned reasons.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 360, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'misses catching'.
Suggestion: misses catching
...an commit undesirable actions which law misses to catch, for their own sake. For example, nowad...
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Line 5, column 855, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a law' or simply 'laws'?
Suggestion: a law; laws
... to solve the prodigal water usage, not a laws but peoples recognition of water shorta...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 612, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'courts'' or 'court's'?
Suggestion: courts'; court's
...rs merely because it is likely that the courts verdict will be imprisonment. To block ...
^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, anyway, but, finally, however, if, likewise, may, so, still, for example, in conclusion, such as, it is true, to begin with, what is more

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2686.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 536.0 442.535393258 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01119402985 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81161862636 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44255395793 2.79657885939 87% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455223880597 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 841.5 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.4109611589 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.782608696 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3043478261 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.65217391304 5.21951772744 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.450007378629 0.243740707755 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.15066683234 0.0831039109588 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111256058027 0.0758088955206 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.288316380202 0.150359130593 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111488532099 0.0667264976115 167% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 100.480337079 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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