The surest indicator of a great nation is represented not by the achievements of its rulers artists or scientists but by the general welfare of its people

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The surest indicator of a great nation is represented not by the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but by the general welfare of its people.

Whether the greatness of nation can be explained by the achievements of its rulers, artists, scientists or can be explained by general welfare is controversial topic. On the one hand, one might say the contributions by renowned people are not negligible factor and can represent the nation's greatness successfully. However I agree with the statement for several reasons.

To begin with, I concede that the great country is likely to have developed art, science and superior ruler. For example, the nation where produced the most Nobel Prize winner in science field is the United States followed by England and Germany and there countries are regarded as outstanding nations. Likewise many well-known artists who were active in Renaissance contributed a lot leading their countries to great nations. What is more, slavery and racism might be still rampant in the United States and suffer the country's reputation if Lincoln had not abolished slavery.

However, it does not implies that outstanding performances of nation's renowned people always correspond to the greatness of nations. As we all know, politicians, artists, scientists are rarely gifted people. However the current and future state of nation is shaped by overall achievements of generals, not a few geniuses. A country which can not provide basic needs is not regarded as superior. Even if a country is fortunate and contains many renowned people in diverse areas, it is not a great nation if general people in the country are starving and in state of poverty. To illustrate, consider the India. Even though, India has the third richest human resources in science and has many outstanding scientific patents, the overall welfare is in low of quality: its illiterate ratio is significantly higher than average, and many people are living in state of poverty except a few. Can we call India a 'great nation' merely because its achievement in science?

What is more, we should also consider the primary role of country: country exists for citizens. The country that only favors talented peoples without considering the general welfare can not be regarded as great as country exists not only for its scientists, ruler, artists. To illustrate consider North Korea. North Korea accommodates all the needs to scientists and artists as the country consider the science and art as the most important aspects. The country provides not only large amount of financial support but also many conveniences such as house, car and foods. However the overall welfare in the country is totally inferior. Based on research, over 60 percent of the people in the country are in absolute poverty. What is more the average salary in the country is 3 dollars per month which is too low to live properly. Nobody doubts that North Korea is not a great and this recognition will last unless they develops the overall welfare as it severs for general citizens.

In conclusion, even though I concede that the great nations are likely to have outstanding achievements by scientist, artist and rulers, I agree with the statement based on above mentioned reasons. As 'government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth' implies, the country should serves the general citizens and therefore. general welfare is the surest indicator of a great nation.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 348, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'nations'' or 'nation's'?
Suggestion: nations'; nation's
...negligible factor and can represent the nations greatness successfully. However, I agre...
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Line 5, column 195, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...nd scientists are rarely gifted people. However a countrys current and future are shape...
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Line 7, column 406, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...talented scientists and artists because the consider art and science as the most important a...
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Line 7, column 604, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s house, cars and foods to its scientist and artists. In contrast, the general we...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, likewise, so, therefore, third, well, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, to begin with, what is more

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2804.0 2235.4752809 125% => OK
No of words: 549.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10746812386 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84053189512 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70452365373 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.446265938069 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 882.0 704.065955056 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6521530003 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.851851852 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3333333333 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.400147374828 0.243740707755 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102615233507 0.0831039109588 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0773403331208 0.0758088955206 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219105717098 0.150359130593 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0768996796903 0.0667264976115 115% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 100.480337079 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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