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.
"Big cities are the Kaleidoscope of a society's character" - It is just not a cliché. The impression of its expression can be found in the numerous successful studies of a society's characteristics.
As the prompt suggests, major cities effectively mirror the dominant characteristics of a society. Acting both as a living panorama and historical record book, these cities serve as a treasure chest of information for those who seek it.
In my opinion, I mostly agree with this suggestion and argue that those who wish to study a society should economise their efforts through focussing on major cities rather than combing out hinterlands for three reasons.
To begin, the major cities act as an aggregator of various constituents of society drawn from different classes, creeds and races. Thus, to focus on a city is equivalent to studying a sample which is a good representative of the entire population.
Moreover, cities unlike hinterlands, have always served as important nodes of connection - within the society as well as with the world outside. World over, major cities have a rich history of trade and economic activities. These cities are custodians of not only a society's cultural and economic assimilation but also the resultant evolution in their beliefs and values.
Also, for society such as Indian society, the sheer size spread and diversity of societal fabric would make the task very difficult. There is a famous saying in India "The water changes every mile and the language every four-mile" In such cases, the cities serve as a microcosm of the society in its entirety - reflecting both the individual components as well as their interaction at large.
Of course, some argue that the essence of a society's character can be found in hinterlands thus to understand a society, we must understand its rural population. However, society is not represented by how an individual interacts within its own tribe but through the interaction of different tribes which forms the society. And ignoring this is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... served as important nodes of connection - within the society as well as with the...
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Suggestion: and
...flecting both the individual components as well as their interaction at large. Of cours...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, moreover, so, thus, well, of course, such as, as well as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1763.0 2235.4752809 79% => OK
No of words: 336.0 442.535393258 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24702380952 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04455076126 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 215.323595506 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.568452380952 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 557.1 704.065955056 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.3359381224 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.533333333 118.986275619 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.33333333333 5.21951772744 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215666068016 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0714956898889 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0285548667751 0.0758088955206 38% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104032322945 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0244704661911 0.0667264976115 37% => 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: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 100.480337079 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => 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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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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