The general welfare of a nation's people is a better indication of that nation's greatness than are the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disag

The welfare of a nation can be measured, if at all, by various means. Each person would have his own view point om what constitutes greatness. Since each citizen of a nation can be considered a building block of that nation, the welfare of those building blocks should be a prime indicator of the nation's greatness.

There are over 200 nations in the world as of 2018 and the state of welfare of their citizens lies across the spectrum. While some nations have the best standards of living and prosperity, some have severe poverty with most citizens living under difficult conditions. The same can be said of a nation's achievements. There are countries which have carried out space missions while some have difficulties manufacturing automobiles.

While a country's achievement in an important field like science adds highly to its greatness, that greatness wouldn't be of much value if the citizens are not able to lead a decent day to day life. For example, USSR of the former days was a leader in space missions, nuclear technology, weaponry, territory etc. In spite of that, many people could not live a free and independent life as the government suppressed free speech, businesses and many other fundamental things that add to the quality of life of its citizens. We could also consider India which was in news for its successful Mars mission while there are millions who still live below poverty line and do not stand to see any immediate benefit out of the funds spent for the mission.

Wealth of a country definitely plays a part in the welfare, but what matters more is how well it is distributed among the people. We have examples of many countries in Western Europe where the distribution of wealth is considered among the best in the world, where as in countries like United States, it is among the worst and is deteriorating. While USA is a nation that leads in terms of science, movies and even wealth, the same cannot be said about its citizens welfare as the distribution of wealth is increasingly skewing towards the top. Those European countries, despite being smaller economies provide better welfare to its people due to better distributed wealth structure.

To conclude, a nation is like an element that is made up of atoms. An element's stability depends on the stability of the individual atoms. Similarly, a nation or a civilization lasts longer if the citizens who are part of it are in a stable condition. While achievements in certain fields like entertainment, literature and science do add to the greatness, they don't count for much if the citizens are struggling to get through each day.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, similarly, so, still, well, while, for example, in spite of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2181.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 447.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87919463087 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78178721595 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521252796421 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 682.2 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.1680384405 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.789473684 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5263157895 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.89473684211 5.21951772744 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 7.80617977528 128% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => 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: 0.152596333955 0.243740707755 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0495172252821 0.0831039109588 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0403723072213 0.0758088955206 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0849846145825 0.150359130593 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0252259991343 0.0667264976115 38% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 100.480337079 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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