To understand the most imporant characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
The statement emphasizes the importance to study the major cities for someone who wants to have a better understanding of a society, with which I greatly agree. Moreover, to achieve the goal more effectively, I think some complements such as to study on the villages and counties could be accepted by those people.
At the first glance of the statement, we know the author wants us to know how necessary the knowledge on cities is if we plan to understand a certain society. Certainly, this view is quite reasonable since cities do carry a lot the social culture. Cities always have a long history even longer than the country, examples including that the formation of Roman is earlier than Italy, Athens earlier than Greek and so on. Too many things have been impressed into the cities’ buildings, people and landscapes. If you are walking on the road of Moscow, seeing the Gothic buildings and churches, you can know better how much the Russian society is influenced by the Gothic style and how much weight their people lay on the Ester. While when you are traveling in Paris, you can strongly feel what significant meaning freedom and love have by feeling the passion in the kissing couples, the happiness of the birds and the sexiness of the river. Without the knowledge of Moscow or Paris, one might never understand the inherent grand in Russian culture or the freedom in French culture.
However, only focusing on the cities could be partial and narrow, thus the additional knowledge on the counties and villages might serve as a good complement.
Besides the cities, counties and villages also cover a large percentage in the social culture. Actually, in most societies, especially the developing ones, counties and villages contain even a larger percentage of the whole population. They have a long history and form interesting traditions which are quite representative for the society. For instance, in most villages in China, girls are asked by their parents to learn how to cook and knit when they are adolescents, while boys are trained to till the land, doing the heavy job. The labor pattern reveals Chinese’s sharp conventional attitude towards the responsibility of males and females, the former endeavoring for a rich life and the latter caring for the family. Although in China’s cities you could also discover such trend that the males are required to earn much more than females, the tradition is more obvious in the villages.
In the counties, propound social meanings are abundant, too. In a typical county in China, the population is relative small, thus people have a fair proportion of acquiescence. When people have something in trouble, such as the children’s disease, they may conveniently turn to their doctor friend, quite different from the western people who will call their family physicians. The prevailing social network facilitates residents’ numerous affairs. If you want to know how the acquiescence network works in Chinese society, to live in a county for months is a good suggestion.
To sum up, for the most part of the statement I will give my agreement, whereas the claim could be enhanced if we pay equal attention to the study on villages and counties.
Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'besides', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'whereas', 'while', 'as to', 'for instance', 'i think', 'such as', 'to sum up']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.245901639344 0.240241500013 102% => OK
Verbs: 0.132786885246 0.157235817809 84% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0983606557377 0.0880659088768 112% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0426229508197 0.0497285424764 86% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0344262295082 0.0444667217837 77% => OK
Prepositions: 0.118032786885 0.12292977631 96% => OK
Participles: 0.0262295081967 0.0406280797675 65% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.81511709692 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0245901639344 0.030933414821 79% => OK
Particles: 0.0016393442623 0.0016655270985 98% => OK
Determiners: 0.118032786885 0.0997080785238 118% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0180327868852 0.0249443105267 72% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0213114754098 0.0148568991511 143% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3236.0 2732.02544248 118% => OK
No of words: 535.0 452.878318584 118% => OK
Chars per words: 6.04859813084 6.0361032391 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80937282943 4.58838876751 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.366355140187 0.366273622748 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.278504672897 0.280924506359 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.201869158879 0.200843997647 101% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.127102803738 0.132149295362 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81511709692 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Unique words: 277.0 219.290929204 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517757009346 0.48968727796 106% => OK
Word variations: 63.0463184573 55.4138127331 114% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 24.3181818182 23.380412469 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.0259796448 59.4972553346 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.090909091 141.124799967 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3181818182 23.380412469 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.818181818182 0.674092028746 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 52.1686491079 51.4728631049 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.859375 1.64882698954 113% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.304137305806 0.391690518653 78% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.121248656538 0.123202303941 98% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0586003292528 0.077325440228 76% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.603295766996 0.547984918172 110% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.175179217249 0.149214159877 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127710559116 0.161403998019 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0664631565848 0.0892212321368 74% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.376097605286 0.385218514788 98% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0744593541841 0.0692045440612 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204579887095 0.275328986314 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0699501668143 0.0653680567796 107% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.30420353982 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88274336283 143% => OK
Positive topic words: 12.0 7.22455752212 166% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 3.66592920354 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 13.5995575221 125% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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