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.

Greatness is a subjective thing and it varies according to the perspective of people. Different people have different indicators of greatness for them. Accordingly, how a nation is judged varies with these different perceptions of people. However, in my view, greatness of a nation should be gauged by the welfare of people (whether people are happy and have access to all the basic needs), rather than other indicators with a very narrow scope- achievement of ruler, artists or scientist.

Most of the nations which are called “great” by people, though, may different level of artistic, political and scientific achievements possess only one common thing: general welfare of people. There are nations that have artistic, political or scientific achievements but are not regarded as “great”. North Korea, for instance, is a nation that has a great political power (it possesses power to waver the politics of Japan, South Korea and even U.S.). It has the most advanced nuclear weapon in the world- a major achievement of scientists of the country. And, seeing various cultural events held in different occasions, nobody can deny the artistic and cultural richness of the country. However, solely based on these indicators, can we say, “Hallelujah! I have found the greatest nation on the planet”? Obviously not, as we know that North Korea is one of the poorest nations in the planet and a large proportion of its population suffers from malnutrition and hunger.

On the other hand, Iceland is a small country in Europe. Though it may have its own scientific, artistic and political achievements, there is nothing so significant that we can hear about them outside. Still, Iceland is considered one of the great nations in Europe, with most of its population contended with the security and economic status of the country. According to the latest study, rarely a people die in Iceland due to murder or any criminal cause, and harmony and co-operation among the people is so strong that any outsiders is destined to envy.

Finally, some of the proponents of the above argument might argue that nations having artistic, scientific and political achievements should be considered great, because in addition to these achievements, the nation can be automatically gifted with general public welfare; the advantages of these achievements can easily diffuse to the society. However, society is never equal and there are many cases where only the contributors and well-off people have benefited from these achievements, leaving the poorer always poor. So, the best indicator of greatness of nation is always welfare of people.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, finally, however, if, may, so, still, well, for instance, in addition, in my view, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2256.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 422.0 442.535393258 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34597156398 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00683542539 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 707.4 704.065955056 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.6016886414 60.3974514979 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.333333333 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4444444444 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.55555555556 5.21951772744 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25867979109 0.243740707755 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0878084885558 0.0831039109588 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0742676659002 0.0758088955206 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158617040004 0.150359130593 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0371930339898 0.0667264976115 56% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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