To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.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 deve

What is the characteristics of a society? No one can deny that in order to understand a society, we should study a society’s people, economy, technology and culture. But what is the most important is contingent on what you want to know. From my point of view, it is an effective way to understand a society based on the information collected from the major cities, but there is still other routes to do so.

To begin with, whether a researcher need to study major cities or not greatly depends on what he/she wants to know about a society because as a major city, it established on behalf of a society’s, at least, one important peculiarity. For example, Peking is no doubt the political and cultural center of China. Researchers can easily obtain information related to Chinese political and cultural history from the Forbidden City or the Great Wall, which represents that the Chinese are diligent and creative. A similar representative will be indicated is New York, which is the economical center of US so that we can learn economy status of US from Wall Street and the Times Square. In such cases, studying major cities helps the researchers to understand the most important characteristics of a society.

So does it mean that the major city can represent the whole scale of a society, which is a significant premise of the statement? I think this premise is overgeneralized and unconvincing for the following two reasons. On one hand, although economical difference between major and small cities in developed country is much smaller than that in developing country, one cannot repudiate a phenomena that the gap of wealth becomes larger and larger. It is possible that the major city is modern and rich while most of the other small cities are poor, just like the disparage economy status between Shanghai, a developed city in China, and Guizhou, a developing city in China. It is unreasonable obviously to say that China is a developed country only based on Shanghai’s status. On the other hand, globalization is much popular during the recent several decades. There is minor difference between some new established major cities which benefits from high technology. For example, Las Vegas and Macao are cities for gambling in US and China respectively. Both of them built with a lot of hotels and the city relied heavily on tourism and gambling. However, it is ridiculous to conclude that the whole US or China likes gambling.

Therefore, when studying the important characteristics of a society, ignoring the importance of small cities is ill-advisable. Opponents may refuse my suggestion that it is difficult to study small cities due to the difficulty of selection. They also argued that it is highly possible that the culture in small cities are damaged because small cities has no money and techniques to protect and maintain the cultural relics so that choosing small cities is useless. I partially agree with these opponents and claim that it is the exact reason why we should choose small cities. Only the small cities were chosen can they have more funding and resources to protect relics such as building museum. Maya is an important culture characteristics in Mexico but all relics are dispersed into small parts nationwide. If only the major city in Mexico was studied, you can’t understand how Maya influenced the Mexican’s history.

In conclusion, major cities indeed represent a society’s characteristics based on the huge population, variable funding to protect culture and modernization, it is unfair to ignore the importance of small cities which may be a better place to understand the history of a society.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, while, at least, for example, i think, in conclusion, no doubt, such as, to begin with, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.5258426966 174% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3074.0 2235.4752809 138% => OK
No of words: 605.0 442.535393258 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08099173554 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.95951083803 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02371113728 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 275.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.454545454545 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 986.4 704.065955056 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.7979680438 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.851851852 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4074074074 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.77777777778 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.190476554207 0.243740707755 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0601860350713 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.051365109158 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121723607681 0.150359130593 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0262397983966 0.0667264976115 39% => 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: 13.7 14.1392134831 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 100.480337079 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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