Issue Topic: The best way for a society to prepare its young people for leadership in government, industry, or other fields is by instilling in them a sense of cooperation, not competition.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
An old adage says "united we stand and divided we fall." Long back we had heard about a story where in a farmer hands a single twig to his son and asks him to break. The son finding it a mere simple task, breaks it within a second. The farmer follows this with a bunch of twigs again and asks his son to do the same task. The son finds it difficult to break and eventually fails. These sayings and anecdotes are enough to suffice the need of instilling a sense of cooperation much more than competition in today's scenario.
Right from politics to the great wars of the past and the present, who ha...
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Sentence: It is essential to inculcate a sense of 'healthy competiton' rather than generalizing the term.
Error: competiton Suggestion: competition
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Score: 6.0 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
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No. of Words: 614 350
No. of Characters: 2810 1500
No. of Different Words: 302 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.978 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.577 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.577 2.4
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No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 121 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 60 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.056 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.302 7.5
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Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.409 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.072 0.07
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