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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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position
The topic states that the best indicator of a great nation is the general welfare of its people and not the achievements of its rulers, artists or scientists. I believe this is true, because a nation is made up by its people, and it is illogical to base a country’s greatness to a single person or the pioneers of the country.
Firstly, when is a nation considered to be ‘great’? Is it when they’ve made a mark on the history or when the people of the nation have the basic human necessities? For instance, Finland is a country in the Scandinavian region of Northern Europe and it is considered to be the happiest country in the world. One of the major reasons: they came up with a pragmatic solution for homelessness, something that has been haunting the United States for the recent decades. The Finnish people alleviated this problem by satisfying the basic necessities first, like providing a housing first, then focusing on improving the livelihood of the person. The government also underwrites a small part of their rent for the first few months. On the contrary, to become a homeowner in United States, the individual has to prove to the government that he is fit for a house. This comes in the form of various tests and the bar to clear them is pretty high. Additionally, the Finnish infrastructure is in a league of its own, with free education and healthcare for everyone. Therefore, to reiterate my point, the morale of the general populace is one of the most distinct gauges to define the nation’s greatness.
However, is it the only way to gauge a country’s greatness? The pioneers of the country can also make it great by achieving feats that progressed whole of mankind. For instance, Germany is a country in Central Europe that has created scientists like Albert Einstein, hailed to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. His contribution to physics has leaded the people of every nation to have a better understanding on the concepts of quantum mechanics and theory of relativity, which has helped the mankind in a lot of way: ranging from effectively utilizing solar energy to understanding the origins of the universe. If it weren’t for Einstein’s discoveries, we would have been on square one for our battle against climate change and wouldn’t have considered other planets to settle. But, the countries greatness is also diminished if the leaders of country are wicked. Using the previous example of Germany, it was also the country where the dictator Adolf Hitler rose to power and was the cause of The Holocaust, which has been black mark in the world history. In addition to that, he was one of the reasons for the rise of World War 2, a war that caused great suffering all over the world. Thousands were stripped from their livelihoods and millions were robbed of their lives. Hence, leaders can also diminish the country’s greatness.
To recapitulate, a nation’s greatness depends on the welfare of the people and not the pioneers of the country. While the pioneers do help in the advancement of the human population, it is fallacious to assume that that alone makes a country great. All countries have exceptional people but to base the countries greatness to them alone is unjustifiable.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... person or the pioneers of the country. Firstly, when is a nation considered to ...
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Message: Use simply 'necessities'.
Suggestion: necessities
...leviated this problem by satisfying the basic necessities first, like providing a housing first, ...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'countries'' or 'country's'?
Suggestion: countries'; country's
...dered other planets to settle. But, the countries greatness is also diminished if the lea...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'countries'' or 'country's'?
Suggestion: countries'; country's
...have exceptional people but to base the countries greatness to them alone is unjustifiabl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, so, then, therefore, while, as to, for instance, in addition, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.9520958084 23% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 81.0 55.5748502994 146% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2701.0 2260.96107784 119% => OK
No of words: 555.0 441.139720559 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86666666667 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85370353223 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89226177085 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 204.123752495 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472072072072 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 835.2 705.55239521 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.4262812188 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.04 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.96 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.16399770118 0.218282227539 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0504009501429 0.0743258471296 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0725510282364 0.0701772020484 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13311362195 0.128457276422 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0892316754514 0.0628817314937 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 98.500998004 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.