If you want to know a person, look at their friends. How accurate is this statement? What personal experiences have you had that support or refute this claim? Write a well-reasoned essay response with examples.
As goes the saying, 'Birds of a feather flock together', people tend to congregate with like-minded friends. Indeed, a person would be hard-pressed to track down someone whose friends held beliefs at odds with his or her own. Thus, the idea that you can know someone by looking at his or her friends is supported. This will be proven by looking at 2 personal examples depicting how common interests and values are, in all cases, seen between friends.
Firstly, within any institution of significant size, students tend to segregate themselves into groups of friends based on their interests. For example, during my high school years always associated with other students interested in sports. The same phenomenon was true of students interested in other areas, as well. By speaking to any member within 1 of these cliques of friends, a person could quickly become attune to the interests of the group as a whole. Thus, knowing a person by looking at their friends is a theory that holds true.
In addition to interests, often basic values are shared between groups of friends. Take my 2 childhood best friends as examples. Although we now live in different parts of the world as adults, the political discussions we had over the 15 or so years we spent growing up together helped to shape and merge our ideas. In effect, our opinions grew together as 1, and I truly believe that anyone who had a political discussion with either of these 2 people would have a key understanding of my position, too. This shows why the belief that a person can be known through their friends is accurate.
It is clear that if a person wants to know someone else, they can look at their friends for an accurate portrait. It is assumed most people reflect the collective interests and values of their friends in the same way I do.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, look, so, thus, well, for example, in addition, in all cases, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1532.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 328.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.67073170732 5.12529762239 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58165287913 2.80592935109 92% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564024390244 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 441.0 506.74238477 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.60771543086 81% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.1959892364 49.4020404114 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.75 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0625 7.06120827912 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.67935871743 184% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.287049109187 0.244688304435 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0912953136831 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0813489883519 0.0667982634062 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170579443987 0.151304729494 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0511827960907 0.056905535591 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.0946893788 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 76.56 50.2224549098 152% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.3001002004 67% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.81 12.4159519038 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.47 8.58950901804 87% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 78.4519038076 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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