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 the claim is based.
Warren Buffett once said, "Tell me who your heroes are, and I'll tell you who you'll grow up to be." Wouldn't it be grand if it worked that way? Our heroes are our ideals - the ones after whom we model our life. It seems reasonable then, to say that a society can be judged by the people it chooses to idealize, but I would disagree, for the following three reasons.
It has been rightly said, "Never meet your heroes", for most often they are imperfect. We must remember that no human being is flawless. If we choose to herald an individual, we must attempt to emulate only their best qualities. Take the Dalai Lama, for instance. Although a beacon of light for multitudes across the globe, the Dalai Lama has been criticized for his misogynistic views in recent years. This is not to undermine his spiritual teachings that have touched the hearts of many. To say that his followers are all misogynists themselves would be unfair. Thus, there are many nuances to be considered before claiming that a society that praises an individual represents all the individual's beliefs as a whole.
Secondly, achieving fame is easier in some professions than others. For example, most actors are much more famous than most scientists. Is that to say that actors are more representative of the society's psyche? Sure, Meryl Streep and Emmma Watson are household names - and veritable role models at that - but that does not imply that a high-school girl has not read about the contributions of Ada Lovelace to computing or that of Marie Curie to chemistry. Celebrity culture is simply too ubiquitous in modern life, and publicity professionals too shrewd. It would be inaccurate then to extrapolate that most high-school girls want to become entertainers rather than scientists, simply because superficial data claims so.
Additionally, if history has taught us anything, it is that public opinion swings. When Galileo asserted that the Earth is spherical and not flat, he was tried and executed - only to become a most revered astronomer posthumously. The Bronte sisters, who wrote under male misnomers because of the patriarchal pressures of then, are now recounted among the best novelists of their time. Does this mean that Galileo or the Brontes did not have like-minded peers at the time? No, it simply means that their followers were in the minority, which is why their work went largely unrecognized. That they are praised now at large also does not mean that there are none who disagree with their opinions now - it only means that they are in the minority.
Simply put, the attitude of a society towards any individual is not homogenous, and to generalize individual opinions would be to unfair to many. To best examine the character of a society, one should pay attention to how much import the society places upon any "hero", and how much it chooses to learn from them.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'I'll'?
Suggestion: I'll
... 'Tell me who your heroes are, and Ill tell you who youll grow up to be.'...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: you'll
...o your heroes are, and Ill tell you who youll grow up to be.' Wouldnt it be gran...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: Wouldn't
...tell you who youll grow up to be.' Wouldnt it be grand if it worked that way? Our ...
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Line 1, column 122, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...o youll grow up to be.' Wouldnt it be grand if it worked that way? Our heroes...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...p and Emmma Watson are household names - and veritable role models at that - but ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, second, secondly, so, then, thus, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 28.0 11.3162921348 247% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 60.0 33.0505617978 182% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2413.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 487.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95482546201 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69766713281 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77938217927 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 278.0 215.323595506 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570841889117 0.4932671777 116% => OK
syllable_count: 756.0 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.4260425804 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.52 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.48 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.96 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => 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: 0.150696219849 0.243740707755 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.03350788815 0.0831039109588 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0452346136312 0.0758088955206 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0870443484212 0.150359130593 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0576757414205 0.0667264976115 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 100.480337079 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.