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 that claim is based.
The author has claimed that examining the character of the men and women that a society choses as their hero, one can understand the character of the society. To support the claim the author reasons that these heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideal and hence are a representative of the society. While this may be true in most cases, generalizing it to all societies would be wrong.
Every society functions with its said norms, values, culture and ethics. Individuals following them are sometimes elevated to a level of idols or role models. And it may seem to an outsider that that idol or hero is a representative of the society as a whole. There are several shortcomings in ceding to this observation. Firstly, any hero or role model may enjoy support of majority in a society. But, that does not mean that he or she is enjoying the support of everyone. Therefore, any attempt to generalize falls short of reality. Secondly, the idea of a hero is not impacted by the fact that society changes over a period of time. For example, it will be jocular to conclude that Indians are like Mahatma Gandhi, always speaking truth and following the path of non-violence. The era of Gandhi was 20th century, in the present 21st century, the idol may be same but society has underwent a massive change in its values.
There are cases of multiple heroes in a society. A nation which respected Gandhi also idolizes Bhagat Singh, who as per many was a terrorist. This raises the questions on the claim, whether the heroes can truly represent a society? Especially in big societies, which may have more than one idols.
On the other hand, we have plethora of heroes which genuinely represent the society. Mr. Nelson Mandela, a true mirror of how the south african society was pro-equality, shows the same characteristics. The Americans consider Mr. Benjamin Franklin as a hero, someone who worked hard from early childhood in a small print press and worked his way up to lead the nation, becoming a symbol of American dream. In such cases, one can make a general assumption that their hero or role model gives some idea about the societies characteristics.
To sum, the heroes or role models definitely represent a part of the society but cannot be a cynosure of societal character because of their lack of universal acceptance.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 243, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'societys the highest'.
Suggestion: societys the highest
...t these heroes and role models reveal a societys highest ideal and hence are a representative of...
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Line 3, column 128, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...llowing them are sometimes elevated to a level of idols or role models. And it ma...
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Line 3, column 502, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t of everyone. Therefore, any attempt to generalize falls short of reality. Secon...
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Line 3, column 624, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...by the fact that society changes over a period of time. For example, it will be jocular to con...
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Line 3, column 886, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'undergone'.
Suggestion: undergone
...y, the idol may be same but society has underwent a massive change in its values. There ...
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Line 4, column 286, Rule ID: ONE_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use the numeral 'one' with plural words. Did you mean 'one idol', 'an idol', or simply 'idols'?
Suggestion: one idol; an idol; idols
...big societies, which may have more than one idols. On the other hand, we have plethora...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'therefore', 'while', 'for example', 'in most cases', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.285714285714 0.240241500013 119% => OK
Verbs: 0.127232142857 0.157235817809 81% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0625 0.0880659088768 71% => OK
Adverbs: 0.03125 0.0497285424764 63% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0290178571429 0.0444667217837 65% => OK
Prepositions: 0.120535714286 0.12292977631 98% => OK
Participles: 0.0245535714286 0.0406280797675 60% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.73834128871 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0200892857143 0.030933414821 65% => OK
Particles: 0.00223214285714 0.0016655270985 134% => OK
Determiners: 0.136160714286 0.0997080785238 137% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0245535714286 0.0249443105267 98% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.015625 0.0148568991511 105% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2341.0 2732.02544248 86% => OK
No of words: 403.0 452.878318584 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.80893300248 6.0361032391 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.58838876751 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.344913151365 0.366273622748 94% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.258064516129 0.280924506359 92% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.17617866005 0.200843997647 88% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.101736972705 0.132149295362 77% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73834128871 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 219.290929204 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538461538462 0.48968727796 110% => OK
Word variations: 61.0844046831 55.4138127331 110% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.3181818182 23.380412469 78% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2429861452 59.4972553346 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.409090909 141.124799967 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3181818182 23.380412469 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.636363636364 0.674092028746 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 44.1246334311 51.4728631049 86% => OK
Elegance: 2.29761904762 1.64882698954 139% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.64094369502 0.391690518653 164% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0695006614044 0.123202303941 56% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0722254984296 0.077325440228 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.4769783527 0.547984918172 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.185736108093 0.149214159877 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.215994079731 0.161403998019 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.144561353526 0.0892212321368 162% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.360425783796 0.385218514788 94% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.100301887145 0.0692045440612 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.430182265162 0.275328986314 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110576591561 0.0653680567796 169% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.4325221239 153% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.30420353982 38% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 14.0 7.22455752212 194% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 13.5995575221 125% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.