To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
This topic raises the controversial issue of whether we can understand society’s most important characteristics solely by learning its major cities. Indisputably, major cities are the biggest in terms of their populations. Nevertheless, major cities’ unique lifestyle, behavioral and mental patterns are not sufficient to be generalized over the whole society. Thus, I generally disagree with the opinion that it can be concluded from major cities toward the whole society, and would argue that there are other sources of data to be explored in order to understand the society’s most important characteristics.
First, major cities and smaller cities lifestyles are considerably different from one another. I would like to point out that major cities residents had developed a unique patterns of conduct, mental processes and ways of coping with life circumstances that are quite different from how rural and smaller cities’ residents cope. To illustrate, let us look at the example of relationships. In this circumstance, residents in major cities might have less traditional perception and desire of long-term commitment in relationships. Unlike people in smaller cities, singles in major cities feel less obligated to get married and start a family at young age or even at all. The same goes to having children, or pursuing education, women’s role in the society, etc. Consequently, it is reasonably obvious that it is unlikely to rely on such specific sources to understand the overall society.
Furthermore, if studying major cities alone is enough to comprehend most important features of a society, then we have great deal of misrepresentation of the general population. Both common sense and personal experience have told us that most of the society’s population are to be found in rural and suburban areas. Hence, for us to understand most important features in a society we must take into consideration other populated cities of all kinds.
Admittedly, important characteristics in a society such as developed technology, high education and economy are more common in major cities. This is true especially when it comes to education, where kids in major cities grow up in competitive and austere environments and gain their education in equipped, top-notch schools, for most of these children getting into high competitive educational institutions is an unquestionable plan. In addition, major cities are well connected internationally, thus bringing broad investments and collaborations, which lead to prosperity in their economy. However, the above argument does not constitute a sufficient support to claim the society’s most important characteristics are only the mentioned above. Since it is not taking into account other crucial features of a society such as equality, humanitarian services, justice, diversity and fair opportunity. All of which, can be found in minor cities as well.
In conclusion, although studying major cities clarifies important characteristics of a society, studying them alone is not sufficient to understand the complete picture. As long as some measurements are performed, or some areas are involved, major cities can be high sources for studying society’s major features. Yet, it would be more efficient to learn additional minor cities as well, then it would be fair to infer to the whole society.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, nevertheless, so, then, thus, well, in addition, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2889.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 517.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.58800773694 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76839952204 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.34264630909 2.79657885939 120% => OK
Unique words: 259.0 215.323595506 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.500967117988 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 920.7 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.8023788206 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.608695652 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4782608696 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.69565217391 5.21951772744 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.183764539328 0.243740707755 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.062343206031 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0439344016261 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11829915323 0.150359130593 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0255725833505 0.0667264976115 38% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.1392134831 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 48.8420337079 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.44 12.1639044944 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => 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: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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