“If rituals did not exist, we would have to invent them. We need ceremonies and rituals to help us define ourselves socially and culturally”.
"Man by his constitution is a religious animal” said Edmund Burke. He is by nature weak and incomplete and hence seeks divine help to overcome his weaknesses. If rites and rituals did not exist, we would have to create them as it defines us and basically teaches us to lead a pious life.
Most of the people are religious in their daily routine, like offering daily prayers, worshipping at temple and even engaging in philanthropic activities, like giving charities or donation to religious bodies. On the contrary, many turn to religion or the almighty god, only when they are faced with difficulties and the uncertainties of life. When ceremonies are held, it gives a sense of togetherness and unity; because people come together, communicate, have meals together, enjoy and then depart. This is a kind of a family get together which is necessary in one’s life. This only happens when rituals, ceremonies take place.
For instance, In China, a ceremony called ‘The Burning Money’ is celebrated every year because they believe that by doing so they would connect to the spirits of their deceased family members, ancestors, etc. Another ceremony I am able to recollect is the ‘Mah Jong’ ceremony. In this ceremony, people gather, they eat dumplings together and watch the lion and dragon dance.
Religion, rituals and ceremonies are something more sublime and spiritual. It never teaches untruth, violence, dishonesty, in fact it helps us to be happy and at peace with us. For example, many common rituals are performed daily in our country and those are as follows: Ringing the bell before entering the temple because they say that though god is present everywhere, we ring the bell to ask permission. Second, saying ‘Shaanti’ thrice. Shaanti means peace and by saying so we release all the negativity and finally attain peace. Lastly, Saying ‘Namaste’. Namaste is derived from Sanskrit words ‘Namah’ and ‘te’ which means “I bow down to you”. It has a spiritual significance of reducing ego of a person and this is what has become the symbol of India to the outside world.
In summary, ‘Human beings are considered as social animal’ but to prove it correct- There must exist rituals and ceremonies.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Unpaired symbol: '“' seems to be missing
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Line 3, column 228, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun turn seems to be countable; consider using: 'many turns'.
Suggestion: many turns
...n to religious bodies. On the contrary, many turn to religion or the almighty god, only w...
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Message: Don't include 'a' after a classification term. Use simply 'kind of'.
Suggestion: kind of
...ether, enjoy and then depart. This is a kind of a family get together which is necessary ...
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Message: Did you mean 'corrects'?
Suggestion: corrects
...dered as social animal’ but to prove it correct- There must exist rituals and ceremonie...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, hence, if, lastly, second, so, then, for example, for instance, i mean, in fact, in summary, kind of, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 58.6224719101 80% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1885.0 2235.4752809 84% => OK
No of words: 368.0 442.535393258 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1222826087 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76857102617 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619565217391 0.4932671777 126% => OK
syllable_count: 588.6 704.065955056 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.6006181284 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.25 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.55 5.21951772744 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241202897547 0.243740707755 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0586359885939 0.0831039109588 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0983368706895 0.0758088955206 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131903428361 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0947433673597 0.0667264976115 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.1392134831 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.