The well-being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority. 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.
The people of a society should not live as sheep, blindly accepting and abiding by the decrees of authority figures. A healthy amount a skepticism should be welcome. That said, the well-being of a society is not enhanced when many of its people question authority. Criticism and doubt can be dangerous when co-opted by anti-intellectual populism that fears information and change. Such effects have been observed in fields of climate science, public health, and the judicial system.
Climate change deniers pose one of the greatest threats to the modern world. The majority of climate scientists - the authorities in the field - agree that the earth is warming at an unprecedented and irreparably dangerous rate. They argue that much of this trend is due to the greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity and agricultural practices. Climate change deniers endow their belief with the presupposition that God would not allow humans to destroy His creation. Their denial of clear scientific information will directly impact how their elected officials vote on proposed legislation regarding proposals such as carbon taxes. Willful ignorance and distrust of science directly contribute to the detriment of society in this case.
Vaccination is another arena where too much doubt in authority can be extremely caustic to society. Public health officials and epidemiologists strongly urge all citizens to vaccinate children against fatal and extremely contagious diseases. Those few who reject the authority of such medical professionals do so at the detriment of the rest of us. Refusing to vaccinate children can lead to premature death and the reintroduction of previously eradicated viruses and diseases to the human population.
Judicial canon also contests the idea that questioning of authority always contributes to the betterment of society. When President Eisenhower desegregated the public school system in the 1950s, an Arkansas Governor, at the bequest of his constituency, deployed state troops to “maintain the peace” at Little Rock High School, which was one of the first schools in the state to integrate. Instead of assisting the black high schoolers, they prevented them from entering the school. Eisenhower responded by sending military troops to assist in their matriculation. Those troops, while potentially holding similar racist views to the public, were compelled to follow the president’s orders.
Of course, a healthy amount of skepticism is healthy in any society. This prevents authority figures from taking advantage of the public. However, too much questioning of authority can be harmful and regressive.
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- The well being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority 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 su 70
- The well being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority 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 s 86
- Laws should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances times and places 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 83
- Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain y 83
- The well being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority 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 su 70
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 183, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... - agree that the earth is warming at an unprecedented and irreparably dangerous ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, regarding, so, well, while, of course, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2251.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 405.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.55802469136 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02718058579 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585185185185 0.4932671777 119% => OK
syllable_count: 684.9 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.9730858393 60.3974514979 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.8695652174 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6086956522 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.34782608696 5.21951772744 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.129893015299 0.243740707755 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0378224244225 0.0831039109588 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0627935499158 0.0758088955206 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0728537452979 0.150359130593 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.055115148685 0.0667264976115 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.67 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.38706741573 113% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 100.480337079 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 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.