Leaders are created by the demands that are placed on them

A society is always looking for ways to cultivate eminent leaders. It is our greatest hope that enlightened men or women would qualify for leaders after well-devised trainings and real-world practices. Unfortunately, personality and tactics also play an important role in fostering leaders and may cause the process to fail if handled carelessly.

On the one hand, most outstanding leaders have put themselves through formidable tasks and challenges since they were young, so that they can become qualified for their desired role one day. They keep honing their skills and adapting themselves based on the demands that are place on them until they realize their goals. By way of illustration, Barack Obama, though grew up in a poor background and no one in his family expected him to be more than an ordinary person, had high requirements for himself because he wanted to become president of the US someday. He studied diligently, enrolled himself in a top law school, sharpened his knowledge in the law and the political system and built his connections, which later helped him win the presidential election in 2008. Had him not placed such strict demands on himself, he might just have had a life in obscurity.

On the other hand, not every person can be fostered to be a leader since personality plays an equally essential part in this. Although greater leaders have different personalities, most of them have some traits in common such as bravery. Understandably, fear is an innate nature of human and it is not a shame to have a more conservative personality. Nonetheless, people who are timorous would not be ideal leaders for any size of groups. Whether demands can change them is questionable, because it is highly probable that these people would not abandon their trepid nature even after intense training as innate personality is so difficult to shift.

Furthermore, some leaders are created by tactics, especially political leaders. They hire special think tanks to work on election tactics that target various ethnic and social groups. They spend more of their time on speeches that please their voters than searching for strategies to solve real social problems. Their goals are the power rather than the responsibility. Apparently, these leaders are not created by demands of the public for they have hardly fulfilled any of these demands. For example, it was against public interest for President George W. Bush to declare war on Iraq in 2003, yet he started it anyways claiming that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Within 8 years, thousands of soldiers were killed, and billions of dollars were spent. Sarcastically, no WMDs were found and the only winners in this war were large private weapon manufacturers and defense contractors. The public’s demands, it seems, have not left a single scratch on President Bush’s mind.

In conclusion, leaders can, to some extent, be shaped by the demands that have been put on them. However, personality also has a strong influence on a potential leader. Besides, tactics can sometimes be applied to create a leader, though he might not necessarily be a good one.

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Average: 9.3 (3 votes)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, anyway, apparently, besides, furthermore, however, if, look, may, nonetheless, so, well, for example, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => 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: 2636.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 517.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09864603482 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76839952204 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82120103408 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 290.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560928433269 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 810.0 704.065955056 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.8007163842 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.384615385 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8846153846 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.73076923077 5.21951772744 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => 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: 0.254552989916 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0657848135221 0.0831039109588 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0766722309032 0.0758088955206 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145138275142 0.150359130593 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0679799623378 0.0667264976115 102% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 100.480337079 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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