The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general well-being of all its people.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developin

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The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general well-being of all its people.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position

The given statement asserts that a great nation is represented not by the achievements of a few excellent leaders but by a good life of its ordinary citizens. In some sense, it is undeniable that the power of a country is ultimately subject to the general well-being and actual level of happiness enjoyed by its people. However, I still believe that having distinguished elites in politics, arts, sciences and economy will give a nation a variety of unfathomable potentials, especially in terms of the size of dreams people can have and the level of optimism they can assume.

Of course, few would disagree that the general welfare of average citizens is critical to tell a great country from one that fails to gain respect from other countries. With regard to the level of happiness that a country can offer to its people, a society with such widespread social problems as poverty, illiteracies among many, poor health-care systems for the ordinary people and so on can never be categorised as a great nation. We respect many northern and western European countries not because they have several wealthy tycoons or world-leading scholars and politicians; rather, in my opinion, one of the important reasons why we give credence and respect to them is their well-established "social" welfare systems—people in these countries can use public schools for high quality education, visit hospitals for good health, and work for their own happiness, all of which are limited to the few wealth in some countries. Without "socially sharable happiness," a country, eve though it has lots of talented and chosen elites, does not seem to deserve respect from other countries.

Nevertheless, this does not preclude the importance of several heroic and charismatic elites in making a country great and respectable. In terms of the initial design and planning of the future a country wishes to have, we can safely say that the greatness of any nation depends more on several insightful leaders than on the ideas among the general public. Imagine the present Great Britain without so many excellent political leaders, such as Queen Elizabeth, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and Tony Blair. What if the United States were deprived of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Theo Roosevelt? Thought the strength of a country cannot exclude the collective ability of grassroots, its fate, especially during a series of inevitable crises, is generally determined by those few judicious and brave designers.

In addition, the role of several elites in making a country greater can be evident in terms of their values in stimulating the public's psychology. The current power of Japan in world economy and world politics is said to be being prepared just after the Second World War that left only great despair and frustration among the Japanese. It is well known that they revamped their new hope, confidence, and pride from those several artists, political thinkers, and scientists who helped all its people overcome agonies and dismayed by their respective talents. This also says that the potential of a nation is not a simple function of the average state of all its people but, rather, a consequence of a few good leaders.

In sum, in spite of the beneficial aspects of emphasising the general welfare of the people of a nation, the importance of the achievements of the specialists should be recognised. When it comes to initiating and establishing the foundation of a country and to impacting the public, which can improve the greatness of a nation, it is the achievements of a few experts, such as political leaders, artists, or scientists, rather than simply pursuing the general well-being of the public.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 898, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[6]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun wealth seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'little wealth'.
Suggestion: little wealth
...piness, all of which are limited to the few wealth in some countries. Without socially sha...
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Line 5, column 343, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...ful leaders than on the ideas among the general public. Imagine the present Great Britain with...
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Line 7, column 128, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'publics'' or 'public's'?
Suggestion: publics'; public's
...erms of their values in stimulating the publics psychology. The current power of Japan ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'nevertheless', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'well', 'in addition', 'of course', 'such as', 'in my opinion', 'in spite of', 'with regard to']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.251121076233 0.240241500013 105% => OK
Verbs: 0.109118086697 0.157235817809 69% => OK
Adjectives: 0.124065769806 0.0880659088768 141% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0403587443946 0.0497285424764 81% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0373692077728 0.0444667217837 84% => OK
Prepositions: 0.144992526158 0.12292977631 118% => OK
Participles: 0.0313901345291 0.0406280797675 77% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.88825314513 2.79330140395 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0179372197309 0.030933414821 58% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.110612855007 0.0997080785238 111% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0179372197309 0.0249443105267 72% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0104633781764 0.0148568991511 70% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3707.0 2732.02544248 136% => OK
No of words: 606.0 452.878318584 134% => OK
Chars per words: 6.11716171617 6.0361032391 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96155895361 4.58838876751 108% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.405940594059 0.366273622748 111% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.333333333333 0.280924506359 119% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.19801980198 0.200843997647 99% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.133663366337 0.132149295362 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88825314513 2.79330140395 103% => OK
Unique words: 302.0 219.290929204 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498349834983 0.48968727796 102% => OK
Word variations: 62.08716785 55.4138127331 112% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6194690265 87% => OK
Sentence length: 33.6666666667 23.380412469 144% => OK
Sentence length SD: 86.0355223795 59.4972553346 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 205.944444444 141.124799967 146% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.6666666667 23.380412469 144% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.888888888889 0.674092028746 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 67.0 51.4728631049 130% => OK
Elegance: 2.288 1.64882698954 139% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.553835946413 0.391690518653 141% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.132359744504 0.123202303941 107% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0786029641571 0.077325440228 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.607569270627 0.547984918172 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.141594422123 0.149214159877 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.260046014355 0.161403998019 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125975589365 0.0892212321368 141% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.475059409175 0.385218514788 123% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0621175612815 0.0692045440612 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.428243429654 0.275328986314 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0909074216538 0.0653680567796 139% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.30420353982 57% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88274336283 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 14.0 7.22455752212 194% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.70907079646 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 16.0 13.5995575221 118% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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flaws:
The fourth paragraph is more like an example. Need more arguments.

Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 607 350
No. of Characters: 3025 1500
No. of Different Words: 292 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.964 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.984 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.754 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 245 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 187 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 108 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 74 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 33.722 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.747 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.552 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.096 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5