Discussing controversial topics with those with contrasting views is not useful because very few people change their mind when questioned about their core beliefs.
Write a response to the prompt in which you discuss whether or not you agree or disagree. Be certain to fully develop your position and carefully consider ways in which your position could be challenged.
Admittedly, peoples core belief on a topic cannot be totally changed by just a discussion. For example, a conversation between a christian, muslim and traditional worshipper about which religion is the right one will just be to a larger percentage a fruitless conversation because peoples belief in what they worship is rooted down in their mind. Some of them may have been practising this religion since birth and just a discussion with people that practise other religion will not change their mind.
Also, everybody is supporting their view in a conversation with little attention to what the other person is saying. For example, a discussion between people of different ethnic group. Each person in the discussion is supporting his/her culture and this is because that is what he/she has been exposed too maybe since birth and he/she beliefs she is right in her own way. This type of conversation will just be an argument, with everyone involved in the conversation pitching his/her own ethnic group and only a few with weak cultural background may agree with the other person in such discussion.
Furthermore, beliefs are from the heart of a person, so a single discussion attacking such beliefs cannot provide a change. For any person to experience a change of mind on core beliefs, he/she has to be exposed well enough to the contrasting view to fully understand the other person's point of view.
In conclusion, however, a discussion about a controversial topic with people with a contrasting view can help in changing each others mind, because such conversation can open the mind of the people involved in the discussion to what they do not know about the conflicting points. But, the question is how many people? Especially if the conversation is between dogmatic people, then I will conclude that the conversation is useless.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 336, Rule ID: BELIEF_BELIEVE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'believes' (verb) instead of beliefs (noun)?
Suggestion: believes
...xposed too maybe since birth and he/she beliefs she is right in her own way. This type ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, then, well, as to, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 14.8657303371 34% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1756.0 2235.4752809 79% => OK
No of words: 345.0 442.535393258 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08985507246 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85502979443 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 215.323595506 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.469565217391 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 529.2 704.065955056 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => 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: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.4809968058 60.3974514979 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.428571429 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6428571429 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 5.21951772744 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.407197668473 0.243740707755 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153190489684 0.0831039109588 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.130318009933 0.0758088955206 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.267351260631 0.150359130593 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.124282168498 0.0667264976115 186% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.57 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 100.480337079 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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