It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves.
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.
It is debatable whether people's definition of themselves rely heavily on their identification with their social groups. Although that occurs a lot of times in our lives, it is not always the case.
First, there are many cases where large gap between characteristics of certain social groups and their people's definition of themselves are obvious. Sometimes, people think they are different from identification of their primary social groups since they are intrinsically different. Take members of LGBTQ for example. A lot of them identify their primary social groups as their families and close friends, who are not necessarily members of LGBTQ community. They were not only identified not to be different from heterosexual, but they were also taught to be one. However, despite their persistent contact with their social groups, many of them who define themselves as members of LGBTQ have not reached that conclusion because of their social groups; it was rather through listening to their own hearts and thoughts. Thus, regardless of what social groups one is involved in, each individual's definition of oneself can differ because every individual is innately discrepant.
Moreover, people's thoughts can evolve to be independent from prevalent thoughts and beliefs of their social groups through different experiences and influence. It often works as a limitation for one to view oneself as a member of a particular social group. History happens when one comes out of that zone and discover their own definition of themselves. Take a renowned Psychologist, Alfred Adler, as an instance. He grew up in a family where everyone expected him to become a shoemaker since his father was a shoemaker. And this was when people chose their vocation by their father's vocation, which makes this case quite common. Nevertheless, Alfred did not want to limit himself and challenged himself to be different, thus acquiring different definition. He broke the consensus and became a famous Psychologist, who is also a Psychiatrist, and a medical doctor. He did not let his identification with his social group become his definition.
Admittedly, humans are immersed in their own social groups, which makes them view themselves as members of their social groups. People's values and belief system are often swayed by values and belief system of their social groups. Nonetheless, identification does not equal to sameness. Every individual is unique and many people are aware of that, thereby defining themselves differently from their social groups. All in all, I disagree with the statement because of aforementioned reasons. Through listening to their hearts, desire, and ambition and also through uniquely different experiences, people's view themselves idiosyncratically from others. Social groups definitely work as a huge influence, but not always the primary one.
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Essay evaluation report
flaws:
Here 'social groups' means any social groups. it doesn't only mean social groups we are belonging to.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 446 350
No. of Characters: 2360 1500
No. of Different Words: 206 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.596 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.291 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.892 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 191 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 128 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 93 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 65 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.84 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.367 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.44 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.302 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.44 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.096 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 883, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
... social groups one is involved in, each individuals definition of oneself can differ becaus...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, thus, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 12.4196629213 16% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 33.0505617978 172% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2417.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 446.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41928251121 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5955099915 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97912546258 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484304932735 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 746.1 704.065955056 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.3806224022 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.68 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.84 23.4991977007 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.56 5.21951772744 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 15.0 4.83258426966 310% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.133743587491 0.243740707755 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0460633776742 0.0831039109588 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0327079513972 0.0758088955206 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0986014957452 0.150359130593 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0108381276652 0.0667264976115 16% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => 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: 13.86 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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