Is freedom of speech necessary in a free society?
There has been considerable debate about the freedom of speech in a free society. Some people believe that it has to be limited due to the anxiety about harming others by speaking. In others’ views, free speech is crucial because the tolerance to different views is the hallmark of a society. In my opinion, the freedom of speech is undoubtedly necessary but it needs to have its own limitation.
On the one hand, free speech is essential as each person has their own views. If they are not allowed to speak freely, they will feel like being disrespected and choose to take action instead. The fall of communist regimes of Eastern Europe in the 1980s is a big example to prove how obligatory is the freedom of speech. Looking at history, there are plenty of examples of people who have been silenced for ideas that they are now accepted as true. Galileo, who said that the earth revolves around the sun, was punished by the authorities because of his views.
On the other hand, free speech does not mean we can say anything we want if we do not have evidences. There are some people who cannot control what they speak to someone. As they are often of the opinion that their speech is not harm to said person, they could speak anything they want, especially on Internet. In recent years, there have been a great number of suicides due to negative speech which some people call “free speech”. Sulli, a Korean singer, who committed suicide after having born with offensive words to her life from netizens on Instagram. Sadly, no one had to take responsibility for her death although they directly caused it.
To summarize, I believe that free speech is undoubtedly necessary in a free society because everyone has rights to speak their own views. Otherwise, the freedom of speech should be limited to lessen consequences from unfounded and offensive words.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, look, so, as to, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1540.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 323.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76780185759 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50490991941 2.80592935109 89% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541795665635 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 476.1 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 20.2645137872 49.4020404114 41% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 90.5882352941 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.41176470588 7.06120827912 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.352355272708 0.244688304435 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115018883877 0.084324248473 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121524062928 0.0667982634062 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.256822684702 0.151304729494 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.136416543239 0.056905535591 240% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 13.0946893788 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 50.2224549098 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.4159519038 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.58950901804 91% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, look, so, as to, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1540.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 323.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76780185759 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50490991941 2.80592935109 89% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541795665635 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 476.1 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 20.2645137872 49.4020404114 41% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 90.5882352941 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.41176470588 7.06120827912 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.352355272708 0.244688304435 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115018883877 0.084324248473 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121524062928 0.0667982634062 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.256822684702 0.151304729494 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.136416543239 0.056905535591 240% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 13.0946893788 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 50.2224549098 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.4159519038 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.58950901804 91% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.