"The surest indicator of a great nation is represented not by the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but by the general welfare of its people." 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.
No matter how many great pundits, artists, politicians, who can make people that the people of the nation proud the country has, if the people do not feel happy for being a part of the nation, all the exploit of such a great people would go vein. Consider a nation which only supports so-called upper-class people, while has no interest in caring impoverished people so prevalent in the nation. Would the nation deserve to be called as a great nation? This thought experiment brings up another question: if the common people in a nation are all happy, while the country has no academic exploits or great political leader, would the nation deserve to be called as a great nation?
Some people surely prioritize the achievements of so-called "big men" when he or she evaluates a nation to determine whether it is great or not. Using feats of the big men has numerous advantages. First, it is easier to operationalize. When it comes to "indicator", using the happiness or satisfaction to measure the greatness of a certain nation is not a good option because there will be an infinite number of ways to measure welfare, no reason to say that there will be no way that all people would agree with. While academic, artistic, and political feats are still not a perfect indicator because there will be controversy, for example, when determining which nation's art piece is better. Nonetheless, it is clear that they are still better than using welfare, which is invisible matter. Indicator needs to be objective especially when it is used to decide such a controversial matter like the greatness of a nation. Welfare is such a volatile matter. Even you get an exquisite level of social service from the government, when your house suffers from a flood or when your close friend dies, your welfare would plummet.
However, at this moment, we should mind a simple truth: when there are no people, there would be no nation. Think in this way. Can we call a cuisine mainly based on meat sauce but has a hint of lettuce a vegetarian meal for having a vegetable in it? Those who can leave his or her name in the history only makes up for the really minuscule amount of all the people in the nation. Now think why so many nations out there indicated the rule of democracy in their constitution. Common men deserve the same amount of attention as experts when it comes to construction of a nation. Therefore, it is nonsense to exclude common people. But there is still a challenge: welfare is not a good indicator. It is untenable and hard to draw consensus among the people. Fortunately, there are myriad of ways that allow us to use welfare as an indicator like GDP. Or maybe we can construct a questionnaire to ask people that they are generally happy.
There is no single right way to determine a certain nation is a great nation or not. There will be an exact same number of definition of a great nation as the number of people. However, it is important to note that we should consider the nation as a whole, for example, by considering general welfare of its people, not merely using milestone of a small portion of people in a nation just because of its easiness to be operationalized.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, nonetheless, really, so, still, therefore, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2649.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 562.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.71352313167 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86893614481 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78955041991 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.448398576512 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 856.8 704.065955056 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.979362037 60.3974514979 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.1111111111 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8148148148 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.37037037037 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.206707156182 0.243740707755 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0562392850959 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0392277291699 0.0758088955206 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134809153933 0.150359130593 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0366281051856 0.0667264976115 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.04 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
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.