Claim: The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists.
Reason: The surest indicator of a great nation is actually the welfare of all its people.
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.
What makes a nation great? There are many indicators of it and we rank the world nations based on certain criterias, but if we were to see more than just a bird's eye view of how well a nation is doing, it all boils down to the welfare of the citizens. Surely, since a nation is made by its people, what could be a better indicator of its greatness than its people's welfare? I agree with the claim and the reason on which the claim is based, for three reasons which I will elaborate in the following paragraphs.
The first reason that comes to mind when we think of welfare is health. One of the more recent disasters pertaining to health of the people was the COVID-19 pandemic. When the whole world came to a standstill and most of the people were affected either directly or indirectly by the coronavirus, so many nations suffered. To elucidate with an example, let us look at India. At the time of the pandemic, people were queued up outside hospitals and graveyards alike. There were not enough hospital beds, not enough oxygen supply to treat the patients, as a result of which there were so many deaths. But after the crisis had abated, slowly the medical facilities were improved and doctors could pay attention to those in crisis and treat them without any hassle. It was at this time we can see how the nation progressed and became a 'great' nation. It was because of the well-being of its people.
Furthermore, only if the people of the nation are doing well economically, we can say that the nation is indeed a great one. In a nation, if all sectors seem to be doing well and bringing in good income, it is good for the economy. And when the economy is good, the nation is definitely progressing. If, on the other hand, if there is another nation that is not faring so well- it is currently in a state of recession and many of its people are doing bad economically, it is going to be a tough time for everyone to keep their heads above water. We would hardly call such a nation 'great'.
The third and final reason why I agree with the claim is because the achievements of a nation's rulers, artists and scientists, though add value to the greatness of a nation, it cannot be the most important factor deciding the greatness, per se. If a nation has recently made a breakthrough discovery, or an artist from that country has won a big award, that does not necessarily make the nation a great one. If its people are not looked after, then there is no real merit in the accolade given to the nation as being 'great'. This is ultimately a case of the rich becoming richer- what should be more important is that the common people of a nation should be in a good state- health-wise and money-wise.
In a nutshell, I would like to conclude by reiterating that the welfare of its people determines the greatness of a nation, not the achievements of its rulers, artists or scientists. Only if the people are doing well in their lives, the nation can be praised as being great. All the achievements by the artists or scientists are just bells and whistles.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, if, look, so, still, then, third, well, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 41.0 19.5258426966 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 12.9106741573 8% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2505.0 2235.4752809 112% => OK
No of words: 559.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.48121645796 5.05705443957 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86242540663 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54634809491 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 215.323595506 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.447227191413 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 784.8 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.1288483176 60.3974514979 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.2 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.36 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.355753470682 0.243740707755 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111561585485 0.0831039109588 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0786384766098 0.0758088955206 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.238833640331 0.150359130593 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0902500565103 0.0667264976115 135% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.1392134831 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 48.8420337079 135% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.0 12.1639044944 74% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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