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.
The interpretation of the character of a society is the result of the behaviour its people exhibit. Thus, it can have similarity or divergence that is contingent on the congregation of emotions and feelings of its citizen. Therefore, the 2 heroes or ideals which the society chooses, may have contradictory public images such as one may be known for resorting to violent measures in order to bring about social change and another may be known for restricting the use of violence. Thus, these two heroes cannot be used as a sample to understand the character of such a society. While, there is no reservation that such contrasting heroes cannot reveal society’s propriety, there are reasons to believe that heroes or ideals which have been chosen by majority of the population or which are embraced by the society at large can reveal important features of a society.
However true it may be the case that synchronization between heroes and people of the society can unequivocally highlight the acceptable aspects of a society, slight difference in the characters of heroes can impede this understanding of the society. One important point to consider here is that behaviour of a hero may not be same or may not follow straight path which may lead to unconventional or unpredictable understanding of a society. For example, the research carried out by the Singaporean University in 2004 with the objective to understand the behaviour of India’s struggle for independence concluded that it is difficult to ascertain if India had followed the path of non-violence or violence to achieve freedom in 1947 from the British Imperialism. The details of the study revealed that divergence in the heroes had made the results inconclusive since some people in India had embraced Mr. Gandhi, who practised non-violence and some people embraced others such as Mr. Bhagat Singh and Mr. Rajguru, who advocated for violent behaviour in order to snatch what was rightfully of Indians. Thus, antithesis character of these heroes had precluded the understanding of an Indian society.
However, one argument that supports the idea that heroes and ideals reveal features of a society is that if that society unanimously supports or embraces one hero or idea, then definitely this hero can illuminate the important aspects of that society. One way of looking at this idea is to find out if the society has followed one hero for a longer period of time who has embraced by majority, if not by all, similar to the process of electing a Government, then the study of this hero can replicate what society is. For example, the study conducted by behavioural scientist in 2008 in a city of Ranchi in India have predicted that the city of Ranchi is inclined to maintaining calm and composure in difficult time and is intend to handle the situation pragmatically since it wholeheartedly embraces Mr. Dhoni, who is considered as symbol of sangfroid and prudence and even the international cricket council has confirmed in 2006 that India has now a captain, i.e., Mr. Dhoni, who practices avoiding excesses in his behaviour and follows practical resolution rather than going by the established practices. Therefore, here Mr. Dhoni who is embraced by majority of the people in Ranchi has exhibited the larger character of the city of Ranchi.
Finally, one more assertion that buttress the belief that heroes and ideals explain the nuances of the society is that if the people of the society and the heroes chosen by them work in same direction as desire of the society, then these heroes explain lucidly the features of a society. If a society, though considered as extremist, has chosen its hero who work in solidarity with these people and practice what the citizen of the society desires, then this hero can definitely be the sample for studying the character of such a society. This can be illustrated by the judgement of the court in 1996 in India for a small town in Chhattisgarh in India which pronounced that the hero chosen by the people of this society practices revolt and reprisal against the liberals or Statesmen and support he receives from this whole society, is responsible for killings of several members of liberal party since people of this society, showed resentment against liberals because of oppression by liberals in the past, had chosen a leader who works according to the society he has chosen by, thus the court implicated the hero and the people of the society in a single judgement. Therefore, hero, here proved to be a good symbol for the whole society.
While concluding, if the heroes or ideals are large in numbers and none of them have harmony and none of them enjoys majority of the people of the society, then studying them can provide misleading results about the character of the society. However, if the hero is embraced by the majority or works according to the people of the society, then he can definitely be a good sample for features of the society. Therefore, the behavioural scientist must understand these nuances existed in the characteristics of heroes before coming to the conclusion.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 350, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...iety has followed one hero for a longer period of time who has embraced by majority, if not by...
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Line 5, column 723, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'intended'.
Suggestion: intended
... and composure in difficult time and is intend to handle the situation pragmatically s...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, look, may, so, then, therefore, thus, while, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 31.0 14.8657303371 209% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 31.0 11.3162921348 274% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 129.0 58.6224719101 220% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4271.0 2235.4752809 191% => OK
No of words: 855.0 442.535393258 193% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99532163743 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.40743775132 4.55969084622 119% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89856466156 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 309.0 215.323595506 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.361403508772 0.4932671777 73% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1377.9 704.065955056 196% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 40.0 23.0359550562 174% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 142.973825364 60.3974514979 237% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 203.380952381 118.986275619 171% => OK
Words per sentence: 40.7142857143 23.4991977007 173% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.38095238095 5.21951772744 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
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: 0.236673006079 0.243740707755 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101709272513 0.0831039109588 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.069210701878 0.0758088955206 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158592532947 0.150359130593 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0553835076068 0.0667264976115 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 22.5 14.1392134831 159% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.88 48.8420337079 63% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 18.9 12.1743820225 155% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.61 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 177.0 100.480337079 176% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 18.0 11.2143820225 161% => OK
text_standard: 23.0 11.7820224719 195% => 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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