To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
In an era when majority of the population is residing in major cities of the world, studying these societies to get an overview of societies as a whole might sound relevant. However, as only the privileged and relatively well-off population can only afford to live in the cities, the fact that the major cities can aid in gauging the characters of society holds hardly true. Living conditions, culture of residents and every-day life of people vary widely between rural part and cities and generalizing the cities attributes can be highly misleading.
For instance, South Africa is one of the most unequal nations in the world. With most of the wealth of nation concentrated in higher class citizens residing in cities, rural people rarely get to enjoy the city way of life. Every day life of the people in rural parts of the country is markedly shaped by poverty they are mired in. The type of food people consume, the occupation they are engaged in and even the social structure, everything is shaped mostly by the place of their resident. So it is more than erroneous to describe the society located in the rural village of South Africa based on the study of Johannesburg, the capital, alone.
A month ago I got an opportunity visit one of the most rural parts of my country – Karnali province of Nepal where more than half of the population is well below national poverty line. I travelled from Kathamndu, the capital city, in the morning and reached my destination in the next day. When, a day ago, I was residing in sophisticated building of the capital with every needs and desires at my arms length, the next day I found myself in small hut where I could barely adjust my whole body and owner of house had difficulty even in managing the next day meal. What I found between Kathmandu and Jumla was the stark difference in everything from way of life, education level to problems that people faced. So, won’t it be a great error if we characterize Jumla based on the study of Kathmandu?
The proponents of the above argument might argue that the people residing in one country have similar cultural base and though they may differ in some aspects of life, this broad culture base makes up for these small differences. However, this argument doesn’t hold true in the countries where people may have totally different culture base let alone other economic and social aspect of life. For instance, it is totally irrelevant to generalize the character of societies of indigenous people living Papua Island of Indonesia based on the study of characters of Jakarta.
In conclusion, if we are to characterize the societies of a country we must include all types of societies. It would be unjust to study the major cities are characterize the whole country based on that.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 158, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'characterized'.
Suggestion: characterized
...be unjust to study the major cities are characterize the whole country based on that.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, well, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2313.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 481.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80873180873 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68313059816 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63480522155 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490644490644 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 765.0 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.1388504155 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.5 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7222222222 23.4991977007 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.33333333333 5.21951772744 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.116787754508 0.243740707755 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0417522953475 0.0831039109588 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.037190396038 0.0758088955206 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0703491543549 0.150359130593 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0296470198321 0.0667264976115 44% => 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: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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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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.