In any situation, progress requires discussion among people who have contrasting
points of view
Human beings have different background, including education, area of expertise, belief, or moral reasoning process. For example, some people may prefer utilitarianism; some people may prefer justice and fairness.
Let’s consider this hypothetical example: There is a train coming, and there are five people standing in front of the train, unaware of the potential catastrophy. The train will soon take their lives. However, you see a person standing on a bridge. If you push the person, you can definitely stop the train.
The example is from what is justice? Written by Michael Sandal, a professor in Harvard University. Some people who believe in utilitarianism will decide to push the person standing on a bridge. Others will not. They will have their reasonings behind their opinion. If they discuss, they can not only learn from the reasoning but also discuss about compromising there reasoning, potentially developing a new idea based on the contradicting reasonings. However, people have similar opinion may just be ‘happy.’
As introduced in the introduction, contrasting ideas may spur their discussion by comparing and contrasting their reasonings. However, people having similar ideas will just agree and stop there.
The Great Compromise would be a great example of showing the superiority of discussion between contrasting ideas. States having large population wanted to retain their power, whereas states having small population wanted to grasp power. They discussed their reasonings behind and reached the conclusion, and the conclusion became the basis of current US congress. As shown above, contrasting ideas can generate hybrid, but developed policy by encompassing the both view. Some may believe discussion between contracting idea may be not effective because they will hinder the process. However, fast process will be risky because it will cause hastiness and cursoriness. Some may question what if no decision is made? That is why most of the countries in the world adopted democracy.
A contrasting idea can also play a role as ‘watchdog’ for the opponent. In Korea, Myung Bak Lee, a former president of Republic of Korea, had an ambitious economic plan saving the suburban area. However, the plan has had encountered many criticism by environmentalists. After long and enthusiastic discussions, the plan encompassed the environmentalists’ concern. Furthermore, the environmentalists could monitor whether the plan keeps the environmental guideline. Consequently, through the discussion between the contrasting idea, Korea could grasp the two contrasting concept: Environment and economy
Furthermore, by having contrasting ideas, people can learn from a new perspective. As aforementioned, people have different idea since they have different area of expertise or culture. Imagine that a marketing department of your company came up with an idea. However, in fact, the marketing idea did not consider the financial burden of the company. If the marketing department proceed the idea without checking with other departments, such as finance department that have opposing idea, it may be detrimental, not beneficial, to the company. If they have had a meeting with different department which have different opinion, the plan could have helped the company.
People tend to be lethargic; without rivalry, there would be slower process. In fact, many psycology journals have examined the effect of rivalry. Discussion between two similar opinions will not spark enthusiastic discussion. However, through discussion between the two contrasting ideas, people can develop a plan
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- Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the 50
- Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country 70
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'consequently', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'thus', 'whereas', 'for example', 'in fact', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.248840803709 0.240241500013 104% => OK
Verbs: 0.168469860896 0.157235817809 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.064914992272 0.0880659088768 74% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0401854714065 0.0497285424764 81% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0340030911901 0.0444667217837 76% => OK
Prepositions: 0.10200927357 0.12292977631 83% => OK
Participles: 0.0571870170015 0.0406280797675 141% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.23867581771 2.79330140395 116% => OK
Infinitives: 0.00772797527048 0.030933414821 25% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0015455950541 0.0016655270985 93% => OK
Determiners: 0.100463678516 0.0997080785238 101% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0432766615147 0.0249443105267 173% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0108191653787 0.0148568991511 73% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3651.0 2732.02544248 134% => OK
No of words: 546.0 452.878318584 121% => OK
Chars per words: 6.68681318681 6.0361032391 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83390555256 4.58838876751 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.434065934066 0.366273622748 119% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.344322344322 0.280924506359 123% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.258241758242 0.200843997647 129% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.184981684982 0.132149295362 140% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.23867581771 2.79330140395 116% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 219.290929204 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492673992674 0.48968727796 101% => OK
Word variations: 59.2086760178 55.4138127331 107% => OK
How many sentences: 37.0 20.6194690265 179% => OK
Sentence length: 14.7567567568 23.380412469 63% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.5525928457 59.4972553346 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.6756756757 141.124799967 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.7567567568 23.380412469 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.351351351351 0.674092028746 52% => OK
Paragraphs: 8.0 4.94800884956 162% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 49.188991189 51.4728631049 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.68152866242 1.64882698954 102% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.140620940802 0.391690518653 36% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.106655189743 0.123202303941 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.103460051456 0.077325440228 134% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.449717735456 0.547984918172 82% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.148962430385 0.149214159877 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0476778218095 0.161403998019 30% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0451657985268 0.0892212321368 51% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.252100179593 0.385218514788 65% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.097890914667 0.0692045440612 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0919901131283 0.275328986314 33% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0366733956691 0.0653680567796 56% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.30420353982 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 18.0 4.88274336283 369% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 4.0 7.22455752212 55% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 3.66592920354 218% => OK
Neutral topic words: 13.0 2.70907079646 480% => Less neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 25.0 13.5995575221 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 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.