Question authority. Only by questioning accepted wisdom can we advance our understanding of the world.
To live without thinking or to exist without meaning are the same things, isn’t it? Ability to see and at the same time reluctance to look, worse than blindness, is it true? Satisfying with what is given without questioning what is it, why and from where, that usually is considered sufficient by all, creates a culture in which if all agree, then true and enough, which gradually stop you to stay insatiable toward thinking and questioning, learning and discovering. Thus, before being stopped by the limits of thinking, stop yourself! Do not run with majority! Calm down and look around. You will see many familiar things in the same unfamiliar ones. Find them in yourself and you will see yourself in them. Achieve the point of illumination and on that peak you will see another world with many other sides that you were looking at and simultaneously could not see. However, the way to the capability to think and question an accepted wisdom, despite the fact that it is accepted almost by all, go throw two ways. Taking into consideration that all best answers are hidden in truth, first way is you do not have to deceive yourself and second, you have to listen to yourself. Using life experience and giving some examples, I will try to explain each of these ways separately.
Have you ever thought about numerous excuses that we find to our daily actions? Excuses, which force us to believe that we acted or thought in the right way, which do not give us a chance to think about our mistakes and wrong behaviors, excuses that, prohibit us to change and not to lie to ourselves, which make us very vulnerable and weak. In one of the meetings in our country, there was discussion on the topic “Crime” and I mentioned in that debate that the most terrible crime begins from deceiving yourself. For example, a student that makes his first step to the university, knowing that an education is the best thing which he can get during that time of his life, deceives himself when decides to miss his lessons and to join to the majority, for which the accepted wisdom is- “Education is not important”. In addition to this, let me take another example, when man that scared, leaves his friend alone and after this to calm his own conscience and not to be judged by other people, begins to excuse himself saying that his friend does not deserve devotion. Therefore, before learning to question the accepted wisdom we have to be able to question and find ourselves, knowing that accepting the weaknesses, which make us vulnerable and at the same time has the inverse effect to change us and give a strength.
On the second stage, after keeping truth as our main weapon we have to learn to listen to that truth. Especially when our adviser is we ourselves. It was said by one of the American poets and civil rights activists, Maya Angelou that - “Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God”. Actually, the decision that is made by healthy thinking coincides with the decision of God, but unfortunately among the significant number of those who know what should be done just a tiny minority do it. For example, the theory of evolution was very popular in the past and we examined it very attentively. For one time it was an accepted wisdom that could not be contested and the vast majority of people believed in this theory even without any tough evidences, just because the biggest part of people believed. After some time this theory began to lose its popularity and was not accepted by the same majority, because as usual, when something becomes not so much popular less people get interested in it. Only few people who could question that theory at that time and thought about creation of mankind made this theory weak and meaningless.
In conclusion, a human being who can be fair with himself and at the same time hear himself and let to the second himself doubt in the first one, will be free of accepting without questioning long established morals and will be able to see everything in its true shape.
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'thus', 'for example', 'in addition', 'in conclusion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.16397515528 0.240241500013 68% => OK
Verbs: 0.183850931677 0.157235817809 117% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0844720496894 0.0880659088768 96% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0447204968944 0.0497285424764 90% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0770186335404 0.0444667217837 173% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.114285714286 0.12292977631 93% => OK
Participles: 0.0484472049689 0.0406280797675 119% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.60014322231 2.79330140395 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0447204968944 0.030933414821 145% => OK
Particles: 0.00124223602484 0.0016655270985 75% => OK
Determiners: 0.0832298136646 0.0997080785238 83% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.016149068323 0.0249443105267 65% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0298136645963 0.0148568991511 201% => Maybe 'Which' is overused. If other WH_determiners like 'Who, What, Whom, Whose...' are used too in sentences, then there are no issues.
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 4080.0 2732.02544248 149% => OK
No of words: 712.0 452.878318584 157% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.73033707865 6.0361032391 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.16559078211 4.58838876751 113% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.304775280899 0.366273622748 83% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.233146067416 0.280924506359 83% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.155898876404 0.200843997647 78% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0955056179775 0.132149295362 72% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60014322231 2.79330140395 93% => OK
Unique words: 338.0 219.290929204 154% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474719101124 0.48968727796 97% => OK
Word variations: 61.1283187337 55.4138127331 110% => OK
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6194690265 131% => OK
Sentence length: 26.3703703704 23.380412469 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 83.6878057665 59.4972553346 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.111111111 141.124799967 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3703703704 23.380412469 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.555555555556 0.674092028746 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 49.6849771119 51.4728631049 97% => OK
Elegance: 1.06910569106 1.64882698954 65% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.194727753246 0.391690518653 50% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.126262871967 0.123202303941 102% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0844787476489 0.077325440228 109% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.460646496093 0.547984918172 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.1922372052 0.149214159877 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0762705722078 0.161403998019 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0543484809709 0.0892212321368 61% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.451163286725 0.385218514788 117% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0949604618738 0.0692045440612 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142570517934 0.275328986314 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0463410762149 0.0653680567796 71% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.4325221239 125% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88274336283 164% => OK
Positive topic words: 10.0 7.22455752212 138% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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