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.
The author purports that studying its heroes and models is the best way to seize the core of a nation. Given the complexity of the modern society, and because a nation isn't a singular entity, but a multidimensional one, in which eclectic sub-cultures cohere to define the essence of a society, I am disinclined to stick to his stance and believe that these people aren't an accurate sample for a deep understanding of the character of a society.
Many heroes and models are considered as so because of their talents or proclivity to appeal to the people. The idea that our contemporaneous heroes embody eminent bravery or stunning qualities, is outdated. The mere fact that in almost all countries, irrespectively of location and ethnic group, the same professions are idealised, reveal a need for the majority to dream and slip out of their quotidian routine. Indeed, South Korean teenagers exalting groups of pop music and the Kardashian family being the most worldwide popular on social medias aren't telltale of the struggles of the Armenian people, nor of either country's ethos. The main point of this arguing is that the society’s character is comprised of habits, religious dogma, beliefs or food trends.
It would also be hard to do so, inasmuch as heroes' or models' picturisation in many people's heads don't actually mirror their own values. Instances abound among people once glorified, and then loathed after the light had been thrown on one behaviour or expressed opinion. For instance, Brutus’ betrayal do not reflect at all the “honour before death” value of the Romans; Tiger Woods' affairs and mental instability can't be a scale to define the moral and character of the American society. Thus, studying heroes and role models might prove to be a misnomer. Only looking to a singer, influencer and athlete because of their popularity would be significantly superficial in order to understand the values of a nation.
The aforementioned statement finds merits if one would examine the character of a society by having the necessary benefit of hindsight. The politicians, activists or entrepreneurs, citizens chose as heroes or models are firmly contingent upon the economic or political status quo of their country. For instance, slightly before the second World War, Hitler was viewed as the saviour of Germany by the great part of its people, while the French and British citizens labeled them as nazis. One could by no stretch of imagination be frozen in such thoughts now though, and considering this face to be the German society's highest ideals would be sharply fallacious. Abraham Lincoln, touted as the greatest president of the United States, wasn't so in his country, at the time he had opposed slavery. These dichotomies highlight that different time call for different kinds of leadership, and the whole set of the society's values cannot be boxed into the personification of a temporal model.
However, being interested in the religious dogma help to unveil the cultural and spiritual sides of its society. Investigating into art and architecture will help fathom the creative aspects, while probing into education, laws and politics as practised by the people will give us a clearer picture of the maturity of the society. The cultural and scientific achievements, or the history though its philosophers might also be a means for students, scholars or the laity to understand a society.
Despite the characteristics of heroes and models may be used to emphasise and determine how culturally vast and contrasted the society is, it is insufficient and presents several limits. Hence, examining in greater details the social, educational, spiritual, economic and political aspects of any society is the best way to study it.
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- People s behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making 83
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, however, if, look, may, second, so, then, thus, while, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 36.0 14.8657303371 242% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3155.0 2235.4752809 141% => OK
No of words: 611.0 442.535393258 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16366612111 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97176167858 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93004230383 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 346.0 215.323595506 161% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566284779051 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 1000.8 704.065955056 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2983545576 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.173913043 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5652173913 23.4991977007 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.13043478261 5.21951772744 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.280505119997 0.243740707755 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0776952477627 0.0831039109588 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0668385460406 0.0758088955206 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14147119292 0.150359130593 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0618897935996 0.0667264976115 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.97 8.38706741573 119% => OK
difficult_words: 195.0 100.480337079 194% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: 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.