Progress should be the aim of any great society. People too often cling unnecessarily to obsolete ways of thinking and acting because they enjoy feeling comfortable and fear the unknown.
What defines a great society is not how great the history of that society was, but rather the very nature of the society they currently live in. Too many times have societies collapsed due to preservation of age old traditions, obsolete ways of thinking and behaving. Almost always, People rather choose to fight the enemy they know, and this makes them blind to new opportunities and fresh ideas. Staying in one's comfort zone will never help an individual move forward; when several such people clump together as a society, the society comes to a stalemate with itself.
Sri Lanka is a country with a 'proud' history of 2500 years. There are massive feats of engineering that are attributed to the great kings and queens of Sri Lanka that lived in the days of old. On the other hand in the 1960s, Singapore, a country with not as much a proud history as Sri Lanka, pledges to develop their country to a similar state as Sri Lanka within the next few decades. By the year 2019, Singapore is one of the most developed countries and economies in the world, while Sri lanka is still a third world country with nothing but a 'proud' history to speak of. Delving into the root cause, one would find the attitudes of the Sri Lankan society to not be conducive to progress. They cling to age old traditions and thought patterns that they hold high, which effectively cripples their ability to move forward. Traditions can sometimes be important cultural aspects of a society, While they must be held in high esteem, the citizens should know how and when to let these 'societal restrictions' loose.
Sri Lanka has a conservative society where horoscopes still define the outcome of your life. You will lead an unhappy life if the planet Saturn was right above your head the day you were born. Once the horoscope is set, the life of the person is literally written on this piece of Ola leaf and will continue restraining him from ever looking above and beyond. In this conservative society, a girl is not allowed to live together with a boy prior to marriage. You cannot marry the girl you love if the horoscopes do not tally. This situation has plunged the the citizens back to the medievel times. Because girls and boys are not allowed to express and experiment on their love, crimes such as rape and abuse increase by the day. Such obsolete ways of thinking merely takes away all the creativity, freedom, and along with it, any hope for a better future.
Humans are by design a curious species. We like to explore and try new things out. There have been times in history where exploring and being curious has led to people being ostracized. There are times when the society as a whole has guffawed at new ideas. However, in the end, once these new ideas start changing the society for the good, all the conservative detractors who initially denigrated these ideas will also reap equal benefit from societal progress. Therefore, even though it may seem superficially that we must cling onto our age old traditions, progress is in itself much more important.
In conclusion, a progressive society will continue flourishing while the conservative ones will languish. After all, if not for the societal progress, we would still be in the dark ages with nothing but simple aims, doing nothing but merely surviving for the sake of survival.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, so, still, therefore, third, while, after all, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => 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: 2766.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 580.0 442.535393258 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76896551724 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90746259869 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47967900477 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 302.0 215.323595506 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520689655172 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 870.3 704.065955056 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.8729981753 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.444444444 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4814814815 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.55555555556 5.21951772744 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => 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: 0.155471148507 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0374381850903 0.0831039109588 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0396447578571 0.0758088955206 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0809949217644 0.150359130593 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0352811139504 0.0667264976115 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 100.480337079 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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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.