One can best understand the most important characteristics of a society by studying its major cities.
Successful societies are home to several booming cities. if an outsider flying into the city on a 757 were to ask himself how to find a city's most important characteristics, is it reasonable for him to assume that he can come to find his answer by a thorough study of the city alone? The answer is no. To find the "most important characteristics of society", one must first define this term, and then consider that societies represent a variety of people of diverse backgrounds, not all of whom live in the city.
first, it is important to define our terms; we must consider what the phrase "most important characteristics" means. "most important" here is a highly relative term. what is important to me, might not be important to you. if I were to define the "most important characteristics" of a society as its economic prosperity, then I could surely say that these characteristics can be found by studying major cities. Streets lined with skyscrapers are often a sign of financial strength. if, however, I meant "most important characteristics" in another way, I would not necessarily be able to agree with the claim made in this prompt.
From here, I will examine a counterargument to my claim. this examination serves as the basis of my argument, so it is important to set the right framework. one might reasonably raise the objection that cities house millions of people of various backgrounds, and so are a representative sampling of society as a whole. this is a basic statistical principle where a researcher has to collect data only from a small subset of people (a minimum of 100 participants) in order to generalize that data to the wider population. this seems like a strong argument upon first glance, but it is flawed.
this argument is flawed because it fails to consider regional differences that might skew results regarding the question "how can one find the most important characteristics of a society?". For example, individuals in cities tend to lean toward the democratic party when considered as a whole. In the United States, cities like New York and Chicago almost always vote democrat. In the midwest, however, where there are few large cities and an abundance of rural communities, voting tends to go towards the red. this is important because each party holds different values that impact worldview. democratic city natives, for example, might value widespread healthcare and abortion rights, while a Kansan likely values a free insurance market and holds to a pro-life view. Which one of these is an important characteristic of society? if one were to only ask a city native, the results could be biased towards democratic ideals.
In reality, it is necessary to analyze cities, rural communities, suburbs, and every other type of community in order to obtain an appropriate and realistic understanding of a society's important characteristics. The results of each analysis can then be blended. For example, in cities the emphasis on religion is weak when compared to the Bible Belt of the midwest. so, is religion an important characteristic of the American society? Well, no one particular religion can make this claim. however, the idea of freedom of religion and religious tolerance is absolutely an important characteristic of this society. this is an answer that simply cannot be reached simply by studying major cities. cities are not a true representative sampling.
The most important characteristics of society cannot be determined by an in depth study of major cities, at least without defining our terms. Instead, it is important to take a cross section of various communities in a society, and blend the important characteristics of each to find a representative middle ground.
- One can best understand the most important characteristics of a society by studying its major cities. 66
- The citizens of Forsythe have adopted more healthful lifestyles. Their responses to a recent survey show that in their eating habits they conform more closely to government nutritional recommendations than they did ten years ago. Furthermore, there has be 42
- "In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge." 50
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, regarding, so, then, well, while, as to, at least, for example, i mean
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3189.0 2235.4752809 143% => OK
No of words: 615.0 442.535393258 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18536585366 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97987886753 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.3341121438 2.79657885939 119% => OK
Unique words: 293.0 215.323595506 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476422764228 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 1018.8 704.065955056 145% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 59.0679209364 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.6363636364 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6363636364 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.87878787879 5.21951772744 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 18.0 7.80617977528 231% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.37902983358 0.243740707755 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.097185559083 0.0831039109588 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100663772152 0.0758088955206 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215497322795 0.150359130593 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0889495353859 0.0667264976115 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 130.0 100.480337079 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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.