To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
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.
Cities are always considered as craddles of civilization. During their growth, the cities gained more and more populatrity by attracting craftsmen, traders, scientists and politicians. Ancient Athenes, Alexandria, Roma all preserved their popularity as the centers of trade, culture and progress for centuries. Inspite this fact, I am strongly convinced that cities cannot reflect the most important characteristics of a society.
Despite the majority of industrial and learning centers are placed in the city, it is hard to state that cities help to preserve the traditions and culture of the nation. On contrary, during their evolution, the cities attracted more and more people from different nations, thus acting as melting pots for different cultures and traditions. Out of this medley of ideas and values a new, culture is evolved, incorporating foreign influence into local traditions and customs. Thus, if one wants to study the ingenous traditions and culture of the people, inhabiting the area, they might prefer more distant and smaller towns and villages, where the traditions of the past still preserved in its pristine state, to the modern megapolisis.
Novadays, due to the high pace of technological development people travel more often than they were in the past. The high pace of migration contributes to dilution of the boundaries between cultures, thus bringing global conventions, ideas and culture to every major citie's inhabitant's everydays routine. In such settings it is quite hard to tell about preservation of old traditions and cultural patterns, acquired by citizens from their ancestors. Thus, one might find the characteristics of major cities not aligned with the characteristics of given society. This gap is more noticeable in developing countries, where rural population usually lives in conditions, totally different of the ones enjoyed by the citizenry. In this case, studying the cities only might omit the main features characterizing the given society.
However, we still can learn a lot studying the cities. The way how cities are planned can tell a lot about civilization. The main part of the most western cities is the central plaza, tradition coming from Roman architectural patterns, where the city evolved around forum, a place where trade has held and where news and infrmation exchanged. Other societies build their city around ruler's palace or the temple, e.g. ancient Atstec cities, as Tenochtitlan, where the main point of cityscape is the temple. The radial planning of the city can tell us about the growth of the population and whether the city has been attacked frequently. For example, the radial planning of Moscow, witnesses the stages of expansion, where the new walls needs to be build as city grew up. Thus, studying the planning of the cities it is possible to tell which ideas prevailed in the society, whether it was democratic or theocratic or whether it has been attacked by neighboring tribes often.
In conclusion, I would like to point out, that studying cities can give some insignt on the processes, happening in society, revealing its dynamics and progress. however, in order to get more idea about the past of the nation, one must include the rural areas in his study.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, e.g., however, if, so, still, then, thus, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2728.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 519.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25626204239 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7730044521 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86258638694 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520231213873 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 844.2 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => 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: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.3146987064 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.608695652 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5652173913 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.17391304348 5.21951772744 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.83258426966 248% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0949258880013 0.243740707755 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0325072887735 0.0831039109588 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0381273944155 0.0758088955206 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0604279343638 0.150359130593 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0151134131707 0.0667264976115 23% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.44 8.38706741573 113% => OK
difficult_words: 155.0 100.480337079 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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