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.
In the ongoing era of globalization, the world is closely connected. For any country, most of these global connections arise due to cities that have been identified as global hubs. In this context, the statement does hold true. However, the question “What are the most important characteristics of a society?” cannot be answered objectively and hence I do not agree with the statement completely.
Different people might have different viewpoints about what characteristics define a society? An economist, for example, might be interested in the economic characteristics of society. For most countries, economic activities are concentrated in and around cities. In India, most of the import-export is done from Mumbai - a metro city. Cities also are home to government administration offices, the highest judiciary as well as educational institutions. Thus analyzing the cities does hold merit as it sheds light on how the country is governed, how the country carries out the judicial process, and what level of education is being offered to the people of the country. These analyses help one understand the economic environment of the country, the form of government in the country and the intellectual quality of people of the country. This significantly determines the power of the country at a global scale.
However, the cities are generally not indicative of the cultural, traditional and religious values of the people. An anthropologist interested in learning the culture and tradition of people is more likely to spend his/her time analyzing the life of people in smaller towns and villages. In India, smaller towns carry the torch for preserving cultural traditions. India is a multilingual country with more than a 1000 languages. However one would rarely find anyone knowledgable in languages apart from Hindi and English in the cities. It is the people in villages who learn the lesser know languages and dialects and make sure that their culture is passed to future generations.
This is not to argue that the people in the cities have lost their cultural values. Though many traditions are carried out by the city dwellers, they have not retained there original form and have been modified to better suit the tastes of the new generation. A good example would be the festival of Navratri celebrated in Gujarat. The festival is for worshipping the Goddess Durga and her nine forms. The people indulge in the traditional dance of Garba on the tunes of hymns and songs praising the Goddess. However, this is not the case when Navratri is celebrated in cities. The Garba dance is done on Bollywood songs which are more appealing to the city dwellers. In this way, the fundamental meaning of the festivals is being preserved by the villages.
To close, the claim is true to a certain extent in a modern era where most of the population and economic activities are concentrated around cities. But it fails to capture the cultural characteristics and traditions of a society that are kept alive in their pure form by the villagers.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, so, thus, well, apart from, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2580.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 498.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18072289157 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00719949825 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483935742972 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 818.1 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 14.0 4.99550561798 280% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.6843540613 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.1428571429 118.986275619 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7857142857 23.4991977007 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.92857142857 5.21951772744 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.10832349232 0.243740707755 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0289813017766 0.0831039109588 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0325471994572 0.0758088955206 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0642368385167 0.150359130593 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0299196519398 0.0667264976115 45% => 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: 11.9 14.1392134831 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 100.480337079 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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