People's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
It is undeniable that our environment has a huge influence in the way we develop our personality and behaviour. However, it would be excessive, from my point of view, to assure that it determines entirely our behaviour, as it would lead to the disappearance of every personal ethics and responsibility of our own acts. In this sense, I do not strongly disagree, neither completely agree with the statement. In the next paragraphs I will present arguments that have influenced my thought.
First of all, our education helps us to develop our morality. Bullying, a problem that hugely concerns our society nowadays, appears principally because of a lack of proper education, according to many psychological studies. As our ethics subdues our behavior, and it is the soil in which the foundations of our judgments and actions are installed, it is unquestionable that education has to be posed as one of the biggest influences in it.
Secondly, this statement also holds true in extreme necessity cases. To exemplify this, imagine that a mendicant does not have any money, and he is starving and absolutely thirsty. In this case, although he/she knows that stealing is a bad act, he/she would need to do it, in order to avoid his own death. The discussion about the morality of this action is beyond the scope of this text; nevertheless, this example helps to understand that, although we may have strong moral thoughts, derived from our own experience in life, our behavior can betray them in cases of extreme need.
On the other hand, this claim may not hold true in many crime cases which do not involve survival as a factor. Is there any person who has not given as an excuse that his brother or sister has started the scuffle when his/her parents reprimanded him for beating he/she? Who cannot remember any criminal case in which the committer tries to excuse himself by saying that he was under drug effects? Although these examples may seem as simple alibies, the reason that underlies them is a strong agreement with the statement presented. If everyone accepted the consequences of his/her actions, and did not try to find excuses in the environment that has influenced him/her, it would mean that this claim is bogus.
In conclusion, I am convinced that we should not view ourselves as victims of our environment, who are not able to change their behavior because it is completely defined by uncontrollable forces. Instead of this, we ought to be conscious that, notwithstanding our environment can influence us, we are still capable of making our own decisions and behave as we want to, although restrained to some limits.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, still, as to, in conclusion, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 86.0 33.0505617978 260% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2200.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 444.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95495495495 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5903493882 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86275702955 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551801801802 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 681.3 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.38483146067 251% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.0115864334 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.222222222 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6666666667 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.05555555556 5.21951772744 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0849376864761 0.243740707755 35% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0301313956185 0.0831039109588 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0237610057857 0.0758088955206 31% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0483179422064 0.150359130593 32% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0156573557147 0.0667264976115 23% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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