Claim The surest indicator of a great nation must be the achievements of its rulers artists or scientists Reason Great achievements by a nation s rulers artists or scientists will ensure a good life for the majority of that nation s people

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Claim: The surest indicator of a great nation must be the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists.

Reason: Great achievements by a nation's rulers, artists, or scientists will ensure a good life for the majority of that nation's people.

Politics, arts and sciences are the three cornerstones elevating the lives of the masses. An incorruptible and listening government, overflowing of culture and myriad of technological marvels simplifying our lives, these are great achievements which will better the lives of the majority and contented citizens are symbolic of a great nation. While there are certain merits to this argument, I am of the opinion that the achievements of the nation's rulers, artists or scientists that will benefit the majority are not indicative of a great nation for two reasons.

Firstly, an achievement by a single group is not sufficient to define a nation as great. A nation can have a ruler with outstanding achievement, but still not categorize as great. For example, the achievement of Mr Lee Kuan Yew is undisputed as the one of the most impactful among all politicians; as the Prime Minister, he transformed Singapore from a forsaken island colony to one of the wealthiest nations of the world. Despite his political achievement and the wealth of Singaporeans, Singapore is still not considered a great nation. A great nation needs more than great politicians, artists, or scientists. I would argue a combination of all the following is what defines a great nation. For example, Germany is considered a great nation because the achievements of good governance, rich culture and technological prowess. Each aspect is critical in defining a great nation as such the surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists or scientists, but the combination of achievements from all three groups.

Secondly, businessmen and creatives also define the greatness of a nation. The claim neglects other segment of society that has disproprotionately contributed to define a nation as great. For example, the United States is defined as a great nation predominantly because the most influential companies in the world originate from the United States. These standout companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google, are what the worldwide community point to when they acknowledge the United States as a great nation. And these companies are where they are today because of savvy businessmen and innovators who are neither artist nor scientist. As such, the claim is too myopic in declaring that only the achivements of the rulers, artists or scientists will be indicative of a great nation.

However, some may argue that as long as the citizens are contented be it through well-crafted policies, rich culture or technological convenience, the nation can be considered great. This is a myopic view that equates contentment of the citizens to greatness. Undoubtable, ensuring the well-being of the citizens are well-looked after is an achievement and is a defining characteristic of a great nation. It alone is not sufficient to equate a nation as great. The bar for "great" is a high one, which can only be achieved if a nation is able to stand up amongst the others and being well-fed and well-clothed just do not make the cut.

To sum up, there are many defining indicators of a great nation, not merely the achievements of a particular segment of society: rulers, artists or scientists. Inarguably, they do contribute to defining a greatness of a nation, but other factors like the combination of the achivements of all these above mentioned segments of society and other segments of society also have to be considered when trying to identify a nation as great.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, still, well, while, for example, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.5258426966 174% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2925.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 566.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16784452297 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87757670434 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.18398529588 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.424028268551 0.4932671777 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 927.9 704.065955056 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.6069389806 60.3974514979 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.875 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5833333333 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.79166666667 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More 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: 0.536702501372 0.243740707755 220% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.184642867078 0.0831039109588 222% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0986760258235 0.0758088955206 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.32351771178 0.150359130593 215% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0721092545681 0.0667264976115 108% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => 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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