Do you agree or disagree? It is impossible to always be completely honest with your friends.
Have you ever been cheated by your best friends or your beloved families? How did you feel at that moment? Angry? Disappointed? Fine? Happy? People always talk about truth and lies and form different opinion groups. There has been a hot discussion recently which highlights the ultimate significance of honesty and claims that people should be entirely honest to others when socializing in public. From my perspective of view, honesty is indeed important, however, it does not mean that we should always tell the truth in any situation, because white lies could help us avoid unnecessary problems in social life.
To begin with, it surely makes sense for people to say honesty is crucially important, for the reason that honesty means reliability, means you are trustworthy. Have you ever read a survey on Facebook about this topic? Last year, the netcitizens had a fierce discussion about what do you value when making friends with others, and it turned out honesty was the top choice, as netcitizens commented that being honest and telling the truth are the basic criteria for friends. Just take two of my classmates, Mark and Oliver, as an example. They used to be good friends, like a pair of twins. They studied together, ate together, walked together, even lived together. No one could expect such a friendship would end up with an exam. Oliver was extremely disappointed when he saw Mark was cheating, and he could not accept a liar as his best friend.
Admitting that honesty is necessary for social life, I am not in support of the claim that we should always tell the truth in any situation, simply because truths hurt people so badly. I believe we all have experienced such situations: your friends have spent months in the gym and been on a diet for quite a long time to optimize her weight and body contour, and she came to you for your comments on her slightly observable improvement; your mates have stayed in the makeup room for hours to dress her up for an evening party, and then came to you with the dress you might not like. What would you say? Are you going to tell the truth even if you know you might hurt their feelings? Truth really hurts and it brings terrible consequences. Your friends might feel embarrassed or frustrated, and highly likely, the friendship comes to an end.
Therefore, we come to the idea of creating white lies. It is not saying that we should tell lies, but we choose to cover part of the truth and try to please the others, ideally to make both sides happy and satisfied. It is a common sense that most people hate to be challenged or criticized or to be embarrassed in public, while truth would easily cause others uncomfortable. Back to the previous scenes, when your friends just asked whether they became thinner, or how they looked like, a simple and friendly white lie would not hurt but help forward the conversation. If you insist on telling the truth in any situation, you certainly maintain your reputation of bearing integrity, but you will not become a social star.
In short, it is important to be honest, but do not be extremely honest.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, really, so, then, therefore, while, in short, you know, to begin with, to tell the truth
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 13.8261648746 181% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 63.0 43.0788530466 146% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2578.0 1977.66487455 130% => OK
No of words: 542.0 407.700716846 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75645756458 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82502781895 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54012073361 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 284.0 212.727598566 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523985239852 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 769.5 618.680645161 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 1.86738351254 482% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 83.7773811956 48.9658058833 171% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.12 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.68 20.6045352989 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.48 5.45110844103 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239076714711 0.236089414692 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0688601651298 0.076458572812 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0668691044384 0.0737576698707 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164748396391 0.150856017488 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0620823601866 0.0645574589148 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 11.7677419355 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 86.8835125448 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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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.