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.
A nation can be deemed great for various attributes such as happiness of people, achievements at an international level, economic stability etc.
One cannot restrict the term greatness to a specific set of variables. The prompt says that a nation is great not by the virtue of few people, rather the well-being of all it's citizens.
In my opinion, I agree with the prompt for the below three reasons.
To begin with, a nation encompasses all it's citizens as a whole. The happiness with which it's people are able to enjoy their life plays an important role in the progress of the nation.
To illustrate, North Korea is an Asian country which is known for it's strict and egregious laws. The country is ruled by a dictator and people live in fear all their lives.
The fear results in reducing the productivity and enthusiasm, hampering the nation's growth. Though the country may have achieved nuclear status(which is a great achievement), hungry kids on the street don't really justify the achievement.
Even though a nation is progressing in the name of development, in a hundred years it would no longer be a nation(as there won't be any people surviving).
Further, each country is measured on multiple attributes to be a great nation and cannot be justified by the achievements of a few individuals.
To elaborate, India is a country known for it's contribution in the field of science and technology. Many of the industry's leading personnel comprises of Indians.
Indians have excelled at global platform in terms sports, education, space, etc. Are these achievements enough to mark India as a great nation? No.
There are millions of Indians starving to death everyday. Many corrupt officials ruling the state and making life hell for their subjects.
There is no basic infrastructure such as electricity, water at many rural areas. All these points suggest how individual achievements are not the only parameters to be considered for greatness.
One might argue that, just well-being of people is not enough for an economy to survive, many other factors, including achievements play an important role.
It's true that general well-being may not be the surest indicator, considering how major economies such as China, keep people satisfaction aside in the race for greatness.
But, a nation whose citizens aren't thriving, may have to go out of their way to prove their greatness.
To conclude, a nation is great by a multitude of factors. People make a country great, by their achievements, by dilligence in their work, making sure the country is progressing.
Considering the wide horizons in which greatness can be explored, one cannot be sure of general well-being as the most important attribute to measure greatness.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, really, so, thus, well, such as, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2292.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 450.0 442.535393258 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09333333333 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6057793516 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93560181644 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502222222222 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 700.2 704.065955056 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.094378248 60.3974514979 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 88.1538461538 118.986275619 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3076923077 23.4991977007 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.88461538462 5.21951772744 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 17.0 4.97078651685 342% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.29173628013 0.243740707755 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.081628579374 0.0831039109588 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0653652285013 0.0758088955206 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100782785082 0.150359130593 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0647377059012 0.0667264976115 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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