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 | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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.

People hold up to their values and beliefs strongly, and the very tenacity is what makes their way of living life or holding an opinion on any matter for that fact remains distinct. While, there are some beliefs that contradicts the fact, still some of the people choose to remain reluctant and prejudiced. Not wanting to be corrected or being made unusual remarks on them, for their self respect or ego, they tend to remain intact with their beliefs. Thus, for the majority of the part, arguing on the controversial topics with people having contrasting views is not very useful.

There are always some people who believe weird things that doesn't happen to have strong base or foundation able to be proved. For instance, there are still a part of the population in the world, maybe more or less than the quarter of it, that believe that earth is flat. The fact is not their concern, just because it was believed to be flat by their predecessors or mentioned in their religious book, they tend to believe and follow even with the conspicuous evidences about the space, universe, solar system, the earth being spherical and not flat. This, however, makes no sense, explaining them would nevertheless be useful, for they are adamant with their beliefs.

Similarly, whenever there is controversy on the religious faith and the history of certain civilization or community, there always exits controversial matters that when questioned takes deep turns and effects the community in a way unimaginable. Such a controversy began when a secular party member of the ruling party mentioned a remark stated in one of the religious book about their own prophet consummating marriage with a young girl. This led to catastrophe because, the people who believed the prophet did not accept that it was true, even when it is mentioned in their holy book, instead deemed that remark as derogatory and protested worldwide. When people do not change their minds even when their own belief system knows what's correct, arguing with them would only be a wastage.

While, there are some people who question their authenticity in believing in things that aligns with the fact and not myths. With proper education, the society will have people believe what is true and not what aligns with their imagination which is fictional. Example, people in the ancient times believed that women in a society should not work and only serve men. Now when this belief was questioned, giving rights to women to stand up for themselves, become independent and having equal rights with men, Majority of the men along with women accepted to abolish such a standard or belief set up in an ancient time. Now, with the new generation, there are rather few of them in few areas that believe in ancient philosophy. Therefore, it is possible to change people's belief.

In summary, arguing with people, holding core beliefs, on controversial topics is not very useful because of their reluctance to accept what is true and correct with going against their free will or belief system. However, as discussed in the previous paragraphs, people's belief can also be changed as there are some who can question their authenticity in believing in things.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: what's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, nevertheless, similarly, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, for instance, in summary, more or less

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2672.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 538.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96654275093 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81610080973 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55054892449 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470260223048 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 813.6 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.9938389468 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.6 118.986275619 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.9 23.4991977007 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 5.21951772744 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.371701624622 0.243740707755 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123658182723 0.0831039109588 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0722483645184 0.0758088955206 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.231707275525 0.150359130593 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622295493092 0.0667264976115 93% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, nevertheless, similarly, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, for instance, in summary, more or less

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