Important truths begin as outrageous, or at least uncomfortable, attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time.

Essay topics:

Important truths begin as outrageous, or at least uncomfortable, attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time.

It is a proven fact that truth is an initial stage of progress. However, it is also believed that truths always begins from traditions and conventions. Therefore, people consider truths as attacks upon their beliefs, which they are following from ages. Truth also means some newly discovered facts. However, people seldom wish to deviate from the facts which they have learnt from their ancestors and consider those newly discovered facts as they feel it will attack their own wisdom.

Consider the present day scenario of the Sabarimala Temple in the Indian state of Kerala. Women of menstrual age are prohibited entry into this temple because the deity of this temple had a celibate nature. But, a recent judgment of the Supreme Court of India granted entry to women to the shrine on the grounds of right to equality and freedom of religion. However, entry of women into this temple result into huge protests and violence leading to a state of unrest in the Indian state of Kerala. This completely shows that people of Kerala are reluctant to consider the truth of equality and religious freedom as it would attack upon their own customs and practices which they are following from ages.

Also we can consider a few examples in the past where truth began as outrageous and uncomfortable among public. When Charles Darwin gave the theory of evolution which challenged the old ideology, he was resisted by public. Nobody was ready to believe that apes were the ancestors of mankind. Similarly, when Copernicus discovered that Earth goes round the sun and not vice versa, he was opposed by churches for many years. In fact he and his supporters were convicted for many years. Hence, it is very difficult to change the traditions followed by the society.

There are many reasons behind this uncomfortable reactions against truth. First, the human nature does not prefer to change the way of their life and thinking. They follow their beliefs and customs as they are prevalent from the very beginning. They strongly believe in what they are doing and experiencing their whole life. The second reason that deviating from old traditions and beliefs and accepting newly discovered truths often results into the person being excluded from a particular religion or a society.

However, people have also started to get open minded in few parts of the world. Our societies have become flexible to accept new ideas and beliefs by deviating from their old traditions. Look at the example of how Chinese citizens voted in favor of quashing a rule in its constitution of the limitation of only two five year terms served by its President in order to accept its Xi Jinping’s as its President for the third consecutive term.

The conclusion is that important truths which challenge the proven wisdom always face oppression. However, if they hold any solid ground they can be accepted over a period of time after facing trials.

Votes
Average: 5.8 (1 vote)
This essay topic by users
Post date Users Rates Link to Content
2019-12-30 wenki31 50 view
2019-12-22 no one 50 view
2019-12-21 no one 50 view
2019-10-03 tannistha2019GREessays 72 view
2019-10-03 tannistha2019GREessays 16 view
Essay Categories
Essays by user shouvik ash :

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
... which they are following from ages. Also we can consider a few examples in the p...
^^^^
Line 11, column 166, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...olid ground they can be accepted over a period of time after facing trials.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, look, second, similarly, so, therefore, third, in fact

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2444.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 489.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99795501022 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70248278971 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51291884987 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515337423313 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 761.4 704.065955056 108% => 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: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.1837064712 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.0 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8076923077 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.53846153846 5.21951772744 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.144723798373 0.243740707755 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0383074023678 0.0831039109588 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0464109859636 0.0758088955206 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0757177555906 0.150359130593 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0532540557847 0.0667264976115 80% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 100.480337079 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

---------------------

Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
---------------------
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.