Claim: The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models.
Reason: Heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideals.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
There are several ways to examine a society and its values. However techniques based on observation are most of the time requires great effort to totally grasp. On the other hand, the heroes and role models choosen by these people are obvious and presents you directly what the society values the most. Therefore I agree the author’s claim stating that the best way to understand a society is to examine the role models choosen by its citizens since they reflect the highest ideal of that society.
First of all, we have to make the definition of the hero more clear. Hero is the main character of your bedtime stories since your chilhood. Someone told to you about or someone you read the stories of with a sense of appreciation, glory and pride. There is a dual relationship though. The more you learn about with an accompaniying sense of reverence the the more you start to respect the values possesed by the hero, therefore this idealized person excites you more. In time, this possesed values by heroes turns into your values and hero stories fulfills their actual duties: Endow you with the qualities that you society values the most.
As humans, we are combination of what we like. There are some situations that we cant fully excersice ourself and our ideals but still thing we value are inherent in us. Societies are also like that, there is cumulative consciousness of a society that creates their ideals. Turkish people value family but more than that they value sacrifices for the sake of their nation therefore there are many stories about a mother leaving his child in cold to carry wood to the army. Eventually her child dies, a story might seem very ridiculous and scary to anyone belonging to another culture. However, if you examine the Turkish culture such stories are told with a sense of pride. Not as extreme as in the case of mother leaving her child to death, but there are signs of this sacrifice culture in the society. People boast about how they leave their beloved ones for a major good or even within family, parents are happy to tell what they forgo for their childrens educations. Therefore, its very common to see signs of main themes in the hero stories if you observe daily lifes and relations of people.
Finally, I believe the best way to understand the culture is by looking at their ideals and heroes since it is very time consuming and hard to observe a nation living at dispersed locations. Even if you manage to do so, you can’t understand the intimadations or subtle nuances in their daily lives. In hero stories, most of the time there is a message aimed to give, everything is idealized and obvious which makes it easy to understand and interpret which will lead a total understanding of the societies unstated norms and values.
To conclude, heroes and role models are easy to understand and interpret for scholars and they contain important features about a society therefore they are the best way to understand the character of a society.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, so, still, therefore, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 56.0 33.0505617978 169% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2491.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 520.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79038461538 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49151741388 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.457692307692 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 807.3 704.065955056 115% => 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: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.769598179 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.304347826 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6086956522 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.30434782609 5.21951772744 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265083591312 0.243740707755 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0837523230013 0.0831039109588 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103030517765 0.0758088955206 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192168561912 0.150359130593 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.116475051624 0.0667264976115 175% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 12.1639044944 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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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.