“The powerful are most respected not when they exercisetheir power, but when they refrain from exercising it.”

Essay topics:

“The powerful are most respected not when they exercise

their power, but when they refrain from exercising it.”

When do people generally respect the most powerful? During their term of power or when they have refrained from exercising power? While some people argue that the most powerful get respected when they are no longer exercising their power, true and deep respect is found only when the most powerful person displays his power to others. There can be no doubt that the world’s most powerful people would no longer be respected if they were to stay ascetic life without exercising their power. After weighing the evidence, it is certain that the people usually respect one who has been indulging himself into utilizing the power, instead of refraining it.

Adolf Hitler is surely one of the most powerful people in the history of world leaders, who have in no way abandoned exercising his power and make his people aware that he was the most valuable and topmost leader of his time. This sort of dictatorship made people scared and he would receive a lot of respect wherever he would be, no matter how horrified the people would be. Like Adolf Hitler there existed many powerful leaders at the same time, but none of them were respected by the public as was Hitler. This was all because they were not drilling to implement their power as done stunningly by Hitler.

Similarly, one of the well-stated goals of China’s military progress was so that other countries would either love and respect them or fear with them. Thus, it is clear that people have respect for those who display their power. Also consider the powerful personalities like Bill Gates who have the ability to bestow gifts of charity on the less fortunate, who gets respect from the poor in return and are held in high esteem by the public.

On the other hand, showing restraint to display power can also attract respect. One example of the government of India’s recent decision to discount the loan that the farmers had to pay in debt, has been highly praised by the locals of the nation and the agriculture development board of India. Furthermore, the news that the government has decided to provided pesticides and insecticides to the farmers free of cost lends credence to the view that restraint of power is what people tend to respect for.

Like India, Indonesia’s recent decision to commute the death sentence of prisoners has brought high praise from the critics and the human rights association around the world. While many protestors of the current government were arrested in Israel last month, the freedom of speech and press that has been implemented by the Indonesian government has been widely accepted by the world.

Ultimately, considering both sides of the issue, it can be concluded that respect is engendered when a person in power utilizes his power. This is because at first analysis we may think one who restrains power is more exalted by the people, but once we compare this class with the one who uses and shows off the power, they receive consistent and truly deep respect from the public. Would restrained use of power deserves more respect then why often would an exculpated criminal do the same crime again and again? If anything, restraining of power only yields less respect which serves as a contrast, so we can actually understand what true respect is when one utilizes his power.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: considers
...for those who display their power. Also consider the powerful personalities like Bill Ga...
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...re held in high esteem by the public. On the other hand, showing restraint to ...
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Line 15, column 390, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'Would' requires the base form of the verb: 'restrain'
Suggestion: restrain
...uly deep respect from the public. Would restrained use of power deserves more respect then...
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Line 15, column 436, Rule ID: LESS_MORE_THEN[1]
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...ined use of power deserves more respect then why often would an exculpated criminal ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, if, may, similarly, so, then, thus, well, while, no doubt, sort of, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 25.0 11.3162921348 221% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2755.0 2235.4752809 123% => OK
No of words: 561.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91087344029 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86676880123 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50453181482 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 215.323595506 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484848484848 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 849.6 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.4357575559 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.19047619 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7142857143 23.4991977007 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.21951772744 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.422145814836 0.243740707755 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.149761893081 0.0831039109588 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12170773127 0.0758088955206 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.210365623488 0.150359130593 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.164621990911 0.0667264976115 247% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => 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: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 100.480337079 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => 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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