GRE Issue:Claim: The surest indicator of a great nation must be the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists.Reason: Great achievements by a nation's rulers, artists, or scientists will ensure a good life for the majority of that nation's people

The author's claim that the well-being of the nation is completely represented by the well-being of it's populace is an interesting one because one could argue that the rest of the achievements follow by just keeping the populace happy. After all, artists and scientists come from masses and happy masses are more likely to turn out to be great achievers. But the nuance in this argument is that a well-contended populace has no reason to pursue science or arts as they are already happy. This argument directly relates to the universal basic income debate and hence a very interesting one.

If we look at the history we see countless examples of arts, architecture and science evolving in tandeem witht the prosperity of populace. We can look at Renaissance Era, Holy Roman Period, Ashoka Dynasty in India etc. All these examples lend credibility to the claim of the argument as theu were respective Golden ages for both people and science. This shows a striking correlation between happiness and achievements. Most Nobel Prize winners in the current times have been coming from the United States and Europe which are amongst the most developed parts of the world where populace is relatively happier as compared to say Africa or India.

But it can also happen that a country is pursuing science and technology for the glory of it while it's populace suffers. For example we can look at what space race has to done to Soviet Union. Or how North Korean people are suffering because of their dictator's pursuit of glory. Here, the flaw on the part of the rulers is to see the success through a singular lens of scienitific knowledge or military prowness. Similar examples from history show how singular pursuit of arts and religion had made kingdoms in India weak. So there is a fine balance to be struck.

Also there are numerous examples where people innovate out of necessity and many a great magnum opus have come from desperate times. For example Ramanujan, Martin Lutherking, Gandhi, Benjamin Frankim, Nikolas Tesla have all come from poor backgrounds and it is precisely their background that has pushed them to pursue their talents as a way out of their penury. After all the aphorism, "Necessity is the mother of all inventions", is grounded on evidence.

In conclusion, the sucess of a nation is an inter-play of various factors and attributing it solely to either the well-being of populace or to the scientific discoveries is fallacious as one cannot live without the other.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, look, so, well, while, after all, as to, for example, in conclusion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2092.0 2235.4752809 94% => OK
No of words: 420.0 442.535393258 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98095238095 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76868625575 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.552380952381 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 675.0 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2910422753 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.105263158 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1052631579 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.68421052632 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.125615478918 0.243740707755 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0334004327053 0.0831039109588 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0368301458576 0.0758088955206 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0652556634203 0.150359130593 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0332284662847 0.0667264976115 50% => 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: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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