strong beliefs prevent people from thinking clearly about issues
History is filled with examples of men being influenced by their strong beliefs and personal vision of a future world. The consequences of such ideas have led to positive and negative movements. Overall, it is not the strength itself of a belief that correlates to the impossibility of thinking clearly. Other factors may play an important role in the ability to still keep rationality when getting informed about an issue.
Strong beliefs have, first of all, an emotional impact on our subconscious persona. It is the result of an intrinsic defense mechanism and of years of evolutionary process. It is also true that emotions may well contrast with rationality and diminish our capacity of keeping an informed point of view. The result of this may be extreme and negative. Taking the crusades as an example, years of wars were started because of an extreme belief that Christianity was the true religion that worshipped the true God against Islamism, which was considered blasphemous.
On the other hand, history also provides examples of highly virtuous men that had strong beliefs and could still think clearly and leave a positive mark in their lifetime. President Abraham Lincoln’s civil war against the slavery system of the Confederation or Marthin Luther King’s social activism for the rights and equality of opportunities of African American communities are two examples of strong beliefs in favour of reaching socially good objectives.
At the same time we should not forget that such circumstances are better represented by zero-sum games. We have men with strong ideas and a lucid though process on one hand and an entire system of irrational values on the other hand.
In conclusion, it should be considered that as with many issues, the statement cannot be absolutely right or absolutely wrong. The examples give prove the existences of a double-faced medallion where a strong set of ideas can lead to irrationality but the contrary is also true.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, still, well, in conclusion, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1654.0 2235.4752809 74% => OK
No of words: 321.0 442.535393258 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15264797508 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.55969084622 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85799017503 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 215.323595506 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.576323987539 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 522.9 704.065955056 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => 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: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.5432590897 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.266666667 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.21951772744 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150163769765 0.243740707755 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.049364135383 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0548301239963 0.0758088955206 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0811384231737 0.150359130593 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0548327273119 0.0667264976115 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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