To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.

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To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.

There is no doubt that some of the most important aspects of a society always concentrate in big cities of that society. Studying big cities and there special facets of it, gives a good clue of the characteristics of that community. But at the same time it is important to consider that all potentials of a society does not accumulate in its big cities. Not considering small towns, rural areas and in some societies, the nomadic life, would bring about a great bias in reaching a correct concept of the whole society.

It is important to keep in mind that all societies are not urban based. Activity and life in some countries, or some regions and provinces of countries are distributed outside big cities. Not considering this in analysis and demographics, would lead to mistakes and misconceptions and add to the biases and prejudices in the whole concept. This was what happened in 2016 presidential election of the United States. Although Democrats were ahead in some polls before the election, ignoring those people from remote areas who poll answering machines might not even have access to them changed the results. The same was true for 2009 presidential election of my home country, Iran. Despite the great support of middle class in big cities and the capital, Tehran, for the moderate candidate, Mousavi, the vast support of the mass in small town and villages, also nomadic people from pastures for the conservative candidate led to a result that was not even believable for the populace in big cities.

We are in the age of Internet, communication and great advancement in different aspects of technology. Television, cyberspace and social media has given access for news and data to all people close and far, in big and small cities, in rural and urban people. Ideas are spread fast and can be shared by everyone especially in advanced countries. However all these does not fill the everyday life of people especially outside big cities. People from different backgrounds, with other experiences leading different ways of life have their own characteristics. Ignoring them would give false results in our understanding of a society as a whole. There are numerous examples in the past and even recent year that a movement begins from small towns, rural area and even pastures, expand all the way to big cities and effect the whole society in a big scale. This is what happened with the Mongols from hinterland and their great conquest of Eurasia.

There are aspects of civilization that are gathered in big cities. This is true. Big universities, research centers, huge libraries, many facilities for art study and practice. These are all important characters of a society, no doubt. But looking the big picture there are other facets of life and experience which you have to turn your head outside the big cities, into small towns and rural life. Considering these two at the same time, aspects of life in big cities and characteristics of people outside big cities, would give that big picture and a closer concept of what is the society as a whole.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 346, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, so, no doubt

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 14.8657303371 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2559.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 519.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93063583815 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7730044521 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74475798839 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464354527938 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 814.5 704.065955056 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: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.2934711042 60.3974514979 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.36 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.76 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.68 5.21951772744 32% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.130734659619 0.243740707755 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0437452760395 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0506711282871 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101930924796 0.150359130593 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0766546868789 0.0667264976115 115% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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