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

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

It is true that any change to accepted conventional wisdom starts with bold and courageous attempt stepping out of your comfort zone. People become dogmatic about their beliefs and consider any new belief as an attack to their old ones carried out from generations. Truth can be something in contradictory to previous accepted wisdom or it can be some new facts which are not known to people. Hence an attempt to bring out a truth is considered an attack to their widely accepted notions. The truth can be in different area religious, scientific and even personal and wherever it is brought out, it is criticized by everyone because of reluctancy of people to change.
For example, In the sixteenth century widely held notion about the cosmology was that the earth is the center of the solar system. Copernicus discovered the truth which challenged this very notion as a result he had to face great criticism from everyone. People considered him outrageous to challenge church traditional belief but eventually because of his efforts we have gained a new understanding of the universe.
Similarly, in other sectors for example religious people become so adamant and comfortable with their old traditional belief that if you share a new thought it will be consider as a danger to their accepted wisdom. For example, In India earlier it was used to believe that women should not have any existence after the death of her husband. They used to be burnt alive with their husband’s pyre. Raja Rammohan Rai was the first reformer to protest this custom but he had to pay both socially and politically for his remonstration. Finally, after a lot of struggle he was successful to ban this custom.
Even personally by nature most people prefer not to change their ways of life and thinking. Suppose, if a person family is doing farming from many generations. He will comfortable with the idea that his son will be a farmer like him but if his son chooses a different occupation, he will not supportive to his attempt. The truth that there can be other occupations which his offspring can prefer rather than the traditional one can be a discomfit to him.
However, these days, people are becoming more open minded. They are ready to accept new ideas. Our societies all over the world are getting more flexible and open to new truths. Hence, new ideas and truths are accepted peacefully and there are no violent commotions.
Thus, in conclusion whenever a truth is brought on light which challenges the old wisdom or it is something new, which people are not aware of, it will face oppression and criticism from people. However, if the truth holds grounds, it will be eventually accepted after facing trials.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Hence,
...ew facts which are not known to people. Hence an attempt to bring out a truth is cons...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...their husband's pyre. Raja Rammohan Rai was the first reformer to protest th...
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Line 3, column 553, Rule ID: A_LOT_OF_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun struggle seems to be countable; consider using: 'a lot of struggles'.
Suggestion: a lot of struggles
...y for his remonstration. Finally, after a lot of struggle he was successful to ban this custom. ...
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Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... rather than the traditional one can be a discomfit to him. However, these days, people ar...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, if, similarly, so, thus, for example, in conclusion, as a result, it is true

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 12.9106741573 23% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2250.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 460.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89130434783 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6311565067 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70331659354 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502173913043 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 707.4 704.065955056 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.9635012663 60.3974514979 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.8260869565 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.91304347826 5.21951772744 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => 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: 0.0922798095842 0.243740707755 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0314654648156 0.0831039109588 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0360643036706 0.0758088955206 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0531258896494 0.150359130593 35% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.038543334349 0.0667264976115 58% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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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