People should question the rules of authority as opposed to accepting them passively.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the reasons for which the statement may or may not be true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Rules are an essential part of any civilized group of people. Without the rules provided by government, nations would collapse. On a smaller scale, without the rules of a parent, a child would never develop into a functioning adult. However, just as important as it is to have rules, it is of equal importance for those subjected to them to question authority, albeit, in particular contexts. Namely, people should question authority when there is no obvious justification for the rules, or the rules affect individuals negatively.
The very genesis of the United States, and all of the freedoms we hold dear, can be traced to our forefathers that pushed back against the demands of the British government. As americans under Colonial rule, our ancestors were unjustifiably forced to pay taxes to England, despite receiving no voting rights, and thereby no say in what their taxes would be allocated too. In short, we suffered “taxation without representation.” Questioning the King regarding this policy resulted in no progress, producing a collective frustration that resulted in the Boston Tea Party: the first act of defiance that lead to our eventual relinquishment of British domain. Indeed, has the Americans of the 18th century not questioned British authority, our freedom as a people would have be delayed.
Outside of government, and inside the home, one might argue, it is best for children to follow the rules without question. One might ask, what is the point of justifying every rule to your child if they do not have the knowledge, wisdom, or capacity to understand the full scope of the parents intent? For those rules that have no affect on the child’s well being, but rather, afford his well being, it would be ideal if the child obeyed unquestionably. However, if I child is only ever told to brush his teeth, and not told why, that child will one day grow up and leave the authority of his household and decided to not brush his teeth. Consequently, it is possible that this now adult child will go about life only rarely brushing their teeth. This would result in cavities at best, a complete loss of teeth at worse. All of this could have been avoided if the parent had bothered to explain the reasoning behind demanding that their child brush their teeth. Had the child questioned the authority of his parents, and subsequently received an explanation, the child would have been far better off.
In summary, it behooves one to question authority in the event that rules are thrust upon one without justification or any semblance of reasoning. Otherwise, if the intent of rules are completely obvious, and cause no ill affect, then it is best to accept them passively. A functioning society or collection of civilized people requires both dissent and obedience in measure.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 44, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
... very genesis of the United States, and all of the freedoms we hold dear, can be traced to...
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Line 3, column 783, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
...ity, our freedom as a people would have be delayed. Outside of government, and...
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Line 5, column 332, Rule ID: AFFECT_EFFECT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'effect'?
Suggestion: effect
...ts intent? For those rules that have no affect on the child's well being, but rather...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'consequently', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'in particular', 'in short', 'in summary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.21375464684 0.240241500013 89% => OK
Verbs: 0.159851301115 0.157235817809 102% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0539033457249 0.0880659088768 61% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0613382899628 0.0497285424764 123% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0501858736059 0.0444667217837 113% => OK
Prepositions: 0.118959107807 0.12292977631 97% => OK
Participles: 0.0371747211896 0.0406280797675 92% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.87698137562 2.79330140395 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0278810408922 0.030933414821 90% => OK
Particles: 0.00557620817844 0.0016655270985 335% => OK
Determiners: 0.109665427509 0.0997080785238 110% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0260223048327 0.0249443105267 104% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0130111524164 0.0148568991511 88% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2819.0 2732.02544248 103% => OK
No of words: 469.0 452.878318584 104% => OK
Chars per words: 6.01066098081 6.0361032391 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65364457471 4.58838876751 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.356076759062 0.366273622748 97% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.272921108742 0.280924506359 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.191897654584 0.200843997647 96% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.130063965885 0.132149295362 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87698137562 2.79330140395 103% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 219.290929204 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528784648188 0.48968727796 108% => OK
Word variations: 62.3961868075 55.4138127331 113% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 23.45 23.380412469 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.3960115184 59.4972553346 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.95 141.124799967 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.45 23.380412469 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.6 0.674092028746 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 50.7421108742 51.4728631049 99% => OK
Elegance: 1.36301369863 1.64882698954 83% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.420855797217 0.391690518653 107% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.111310541746 0.123202303941 90% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0574736683103 0.077325440228 74% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.509820352004 0.547984918172 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.12189003369 0.149214159877 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.167063238311 0.161403998019 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0770126058469 0.0892212321368 86% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.343505609156 0.385218514788 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0500702300742 0.0692045440612 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.310858262369 0.275328986314 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00633882677424 0.0653680567796 10% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.4325221239 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 13.5995575221 110% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.