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.
Abraham Lincoln, a figure considered as the quintessential president of the United States, is ubiquitously known to represent the very core of America’s values of freedom and equality. Today, his principles and ideals are cherished throughout the world, and at often times, portrayed as a paradigm leader of a nation who was voted by American citizens who knew the faults and absurdity of slavery. Yet, his reverence is also shadowed by the fact that half the United States was not ready for the emancipation proclamation- to an extent to where that half almost seceded from the country. While it is true that Lincoln reflected the American people’s idea that slavery should be abolished, it is important to note that not everyone were prepared to do so. Only by understanding this dichotomy in public opinion of slavery can one truly see the reason why tens of thousands of men died during the civil war. In order to fully understand a society of its respective time period, one cannot simply rely on examining that society’s heroes and role models that only represent a part and not a whole.
Historical figures that are now revered in American History, including John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King, are cherished as such due to their similarities of social values of today, but not necessarily of their time. In fact, due to the unique character of these historical figures are they recognized. With the advent of communism in Asia and Latin America, some Americans were frightful of the rise and influence of communism worldwide- to the extent where families would build fallout shelters in their homes. Others, although cautious of the possibility of a third World War, maintained composure and equanimity. When the Cuban missile crisis hit, it was due to this composure and not violent reaction that resulted in a peaceful resolution between the Soviet Union and the United States. News reports of the ticking doomsday clock and the fearful eyes of families who cowed under the emergency broadcasts were the face of Americans of the 1970s, but not of the face of leaders who successfully negotiated a truth with an adversary. It was only after the death of John F Kennedy when Americans respected his leadership, despite how short it was. The highest ideals of peace and consolidation by leaders during the Cold War betrayed the dread and anticipation of most Americans during that time.
Other times, historical figures that are esteemed now are never guaranteed to continue that respect in the future. Although some ideals are bound to be eternal, most are always susceptible to change. It is without question that the opinion poll of a president varies through time during his time in office. But even in a span of hundreds and thousands of years, heroes of yesterday are quickly forgotten, or even reviled as treacherous dictators. Who is to say that Adolf Hitler and Stalin were not regarded heroes by some disillusioned citizens of their respective nation? Looking at Hitler’s rise in popularity and his “heroic” image on Germany television, one might even construe that Hitler was representative of Germany. In fact, however, many German citizens, including Albert Einstein-despite the fact that he was Jewish-, were generally disappointed by the fact that Germany was heading towards fascism. Many Germans fled from the country, and some were even welcomed by the arms of the United States government. Hitler may have been representative of the some Germans, but his successful campaign was also that of controlled propaganda that swayed public opinion. His ideals of Assyrian supremacy and national pride may somewhat reflect the guile of German citizens who followed his rule, but solely examining him in order to understand the German society is limited in scope.
While it is true that a hero or role model can reflect one side of a society, it is not the determinant in comprehending the multifaceted nature of that society. Instead, scrutinizing a country as a whole and finding out why that leader is highly respected during that contemporary time may belie the truth about its people and ideals. Considering the chance that the hero may even be disregarded as irrelevant and even preposterous in the future, one may find betters answers elsewhere.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'so', 'third', 'while', 'in fact', 'it is true']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.278833967047 0.240241500013 116% => OK
Verbs: 0.135614702155 0.157235817809 86% => OK
Adjectives: 0.06463878327 0.0880659088768 73% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0519645120406 0.0497285424764 104% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0316856780735 0.0444667217837 71% => OK
Prepositions: 0.136882129278 0.12292977631 111% => OK
Participles: 0.0405576679341 0.0406280797675 100% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.92134056086 2.79330140395 105% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0190114068441 0.030933414821 61% => OK
Particles: 0.00126742712294 0.0016655270985 76% => OK
Determiners: 0.0988593155894 0.0997080785238 99% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0139416983523 0.0249443105267 56% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.02154626109 0.0148568991511 145% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 4325.0 2732.02544248 158% => OK
No of words: 705.0 452.878318584 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.13475177305 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.15284737739 4.58838876751 112% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.384397163121 0.366273622748 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.287943262411 0.280924506359 102% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.21134751773 0.200843997647 105% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.140425531915 0.132149295362 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92134056086 2.79330140395 105% => OK
Unique words: 350.0 219.290929204 160% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496453900709 0.48968727796 101% => OK
Word variations: 64.6432400236 55.4138127331 117% => OK
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6194690265 131% => OK
Sentence length: 26.1111111111 23.380412469 112% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4482255442 59.4972553346 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 160.185185185 141.124799967 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1111111111 23.380412469 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.407407407407 0.674092028746 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.21349557522 96% => OK
Readability: 54.9054373522 51.4728631049 107% => OK
Elegance: 2.08092485549 1.64882698954 126% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.547287005121 0.391690518653 140% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.107987003196 0.123202303941 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0499377042942 0.077325440228 65% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.49510092017 0.547984918172 90% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.113360229249 0.149214159877 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.20311220953 0.161403998019 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0816028705824 0.0892212321368 91% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.53845229205 0.385218514788 140% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0760140665192 0.0692045440612 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.415950405023 0.275328986314 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0632897847542 0.0653680567796 97% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.30420353982 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 10.0 7.22455752212 138% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 3.66592920354 218% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Less content wanted. Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Minimum three arguments wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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