People's behaviour is largely determined by forces not of their own making.
Human behaviour has been a subject of intense study, especially academically since the advent of modern science by the late 18th century, with several famous psychologists, philosophers pondering on the subject and its various determinants and effects. However, we have come to realize it not easy to categorize people's behaviours for the simple fact that people are unpredictable, never conforming to a particular behavioural structure we may imagine for them, based on previous observations. Hence, it is not possible to extricate the causes and effects of a person's behaviour which causes me to have a conditional stand on this issue.
On one hand, we may be able to somewhat generalize the effects the environment may have on people. The socio-economic, political, religious and other background pertaining to a person have proven to be a useful tool fro determining a person's approximate responses to certain situations and problems. For example, people who come from abusive backgrounds tend to manifest their anguish through substance and alcohol abuse or subtle forms of manipulation to ensure that they remain in control and thus, prevent themselves from getting hurt again. This type of forensic and investigative psychology, which has been a boon to law enforcement, police as well as social service organizations, allows them to take preventive measures and help such individuals in advance, before they may cause harm to others or themselves.
The predictable nature of human behaviour to certain external cues is also well observed in the process of religious radicalization, where the invocations to one's gods and culture are sufficient to cause people to espouse and participate in activities which they would not have taken part in, if they had thought rationally. The correct combinations of poverty, unemployment and a feeling of marginalization are often adequate for extremists and anarchists to perpetrate violence through mobs with impunity. In all these cases, we observe that people tend to behave in predictable ways to cues given from their external environments. Several life-altering situations such as death, sickness, loss, grief are beyond human control, which can at best be planned for, but not avoided. In such cases, we observe that people become repeatable systems of impulses and responses. Soldies suffering from PTSD often have broken lives due to such factors.
On the other hand however, we also observe people who come from poverty-stricken homes and highly traditional and conservative backgrounds go on to become top executives in successful companies or political leaders who become the shining light, a beacon of hope and bastion of progress for an entire nation, the goal of emulation for the millions of citizens. Late president of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, is a prime example of people who managed to reinvent themselves and not allow external environments, but rather their internal drive to 'reach the stars'. Such people depend not on behaviour embedded in our psyche through evolution but rather on ingenious mental checks to ensure that they spend their time practising and inventing methods which would best help them achieve their goals and dreams and thus, to shape their lives. The thirst of knowledge coupled with an ambitious drive is usually a key motivator for people to transcend the base action of their environments forbid themselves from dreaming and striving to reach their goals. Elon Musk, for example is said to have come from broken home and abusive background as well, but today he is one of the most influential people, who has motivated several governments worldwide to revise their space exploration budgets and goals and indeed, motivated in part, NASA's ambition to set up a permanent Moon base by 2024, as well as disrupted the electric vehicle market with Tesla, Inc. Values are the main indicators of which paths to select, and actions are the main tool which we humans possess and is unique to humanity, because only humanity can understand the consequences of their actions and thus decide on a 'course of action' and deliberate on multiple futures. This allows humans to select the behaviours they want and be proactive rather than reactive, thus reducing their dependence on external environments for cues.
Thus, a conditional stand best describes my thoughts on this issue. Though external environments are usual cues for predictable behaviour patterns in people, values, ambitions and proactive attitudes certainly provide an interesting mechanism to throw a wrench in the works of such predictable behaviour, and we are the better for it.
- People s behaviour is largely determined by forces not of their own making 75
- Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers 66
- The well being of society is enhanced when many of its people question authority 66
- Over the last 5 seasons Dallas Cowboys have won 17 out of 21 games against their bitter rivals the Washington Redskins Hence they are sure to make a clean sweep of this season as well 75
- Universities should require every student to take up a variety of courses outside the student s main field of study 66
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 39.0 14.8657303371 262% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 106.0 58.6224719101 181% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3901.0 2235.4752809 175% => OK
No of words: 736.0 442.535393258 166% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30027173913 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.20858137428 4.55969084622 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96535722957 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 384.0 215.323595506 178% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521739130435 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 1221.3 704.065955056 173% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 33.0 23.0359550562 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 89.4637952535 60.3974514979 148% => OK
Chars per sentence: 177.318181818 118.986275619 149% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.4545454545 23.4991977007 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.68181818182 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17308655165 0.243740707755 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0537719193991 0.0831039109588 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0469685367293 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0997659504436 0.150359130593 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0440346926771 0.0667264976115 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.3 14.1392134831 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 29.52 48.8420337079 60% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.3 12.1743820225 142% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.76 8.38706741573 116% => OK
difficult_words: 209.0 100.480337079 208% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 20.5 11.8971910112 172% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.2143820225 136% => OK
text_standard: 21.0 11.7820224719 178% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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