We venerate loyalty – to our schools, employers, institutions, friends – as a virtue. Loyalty, however, can be at least as detrimental an influence as it can be a beneficial one.

Loyalty is usually perceived as a positive attribution that one should have; loyalty to one's partner, being committed to a job, to name a few examples. However, more often there are situations where upholding loyalty may or may not always benefit one's self.

Firstly, on average, an individual would complete around 14 years of education, each time building a relationship with the school, its values and the experiences associated with the time spent there. For a young graduate, there could be a number of benefits if correctly utilized. They are for example, being part of the alumni and networking circles, keeping in touch with ex-teachers and classmates. Furthermore, if their children would like to go to the same school, most schools would offer priority to the children who's parents are alumni. However, this would come with a small price as well. Maintaining the network and alumni status takes up time and in many occasions financial resources as well. The consequences of such a loyalty may not always align with one's priorities in life. This would question if the advantages outweigh the disadvantages in terms of being loyal to your alma mater.

In terms of loyalty to your employer or your job. The benefits are clear at the start and part of the company's hiring incentives, such as long-service awards for the longer you stay or a higher pension waiting for you at the end of your career if you decide to stay till retirement. Of course, expectations would need to be managed and what would the exact outcome be of staying in a company for a longer period of time. With the millennial trends these days, younger employees hop from company to company every two to three years. Stating reasons mainly due to the companies not being able to provide the adequate development and training opportunities demanded by such individuals. Hence, loyalty would not lead to a variability in skills and exposure.

In a social setting, loyalty in friendship could be slightly more complex especially in younger, more easily influenced people. For example, certain friends may not always do the 'right' things and may use peer pressure to coerce one into taking certain narcotics or excessive drinking. In certain situations,it may even lead to physical violation. In this example, it is clear that it is not beneficial unless the individual has clear morals and judgement.

In summary, it is quite clear that loyalty is in majority of being a detrimental influence rather than a beneficial one. However, it would be unfair to exclude that there are some possibilities and in the right scenarios, where if the right choices are made, loyalty could be beneficial.

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Average: 5.4 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, so, well, for example, in summary, of course, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2231.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 444.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02477477477 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5903493882 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78545516023 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531531531532 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 686.7 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8329544158 60.3974514979 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.409090909 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1818181818 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.09090909091 5.21951772744 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => 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: 0.207959217759 0.243740707755 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.063125976203 0.0831039109588 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0596248041738 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137378660571 0.150359130593 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0688929076642 0.0667264976115 103% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 100.480337079 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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