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 develo

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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 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.

In this era of globalization the number of cities and city dwelling people have been rising like never before. The prompt asserts that in order to perceive the prominent features of a society, we should take a deeper look at the major cities. I mostly agree with this statement for primarily two reasons outlined below. However, I do concede that to miss out on the rural culture altogether might provide an incomplete understanding of the society.

First of all, the major characteristics of a society are more perceptible in major cities because almost all the major economic activities are undertaken in urban areas of a country. Since the beginning of the industrialization, the industries are mainly concentrated in the cities. For example, in the Britain when the industries started to take off, most of them were located in major the city area or near the fringes of the major city area. In that case, most of the people of Britain during that time used to live in close proximity to the city area and this phenomenon has not changed a bit since then. In fact, the share of city dwellers has increased over time. Another argument can be, the administrative centers of the modern government are almost always located in cities. So, as the main bureaucratic functioning of a society almost always are undertaken in these centers, it would be irrational to try to understand a society by studying some other place than its major cities. So, as the primary concentration of people happen to be in cities because of city-centric economic activity concentration, cities are the best place to understand a society.

Secondly, the cultural and intellectual endeavors of a society are almost always very much concentrated in the cities. For example, the universities are almost always located in the cities and as they happen to be the forefront of a societies intellectual practice, in order to have a proper understanding of a society, it is much better idea to study the cities. In addition, the cultural aspects of today's societies like cinemas, theaters, concerts primarily take place in major cities and rarely somewhere else. For a cultural activities are the reflection of a society's functioning and thinking, in order to perceive the society, it is best to concentrate predominantly in the urban arena.

However, restricting the analytic focus to only urban area would be likely to give us only a partial picture of the society. For example, not all the aboriginal people are properly integrated into the cities until today. So, we might miss out on them if we only study the cities and not their societies separately. Also, to understand the nature of the agrarian societies who mostly live in rural areas, we must expand our analysis to non-urban areas; otherwise, we will lose a significant part of the society from our analysis.

In conclusion, as the lion's share of the abstract and material activities of a society is concentrated in the major urban areas, in order to comprehend the most prominent features of a society, we have to look at the major cities. But, to miss out on rural areas entirely is also an irrational thing to do and our understanding of a society would be rather blinkered in that case.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 523, Rule ID: CLOSE_SCRUTINY[1]
Message: Use simply 'proximity'.
Suggestion: proximity
...ritain during that time used to live in close proximity to the city area and this phenomenon ha...
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Line 5, column 232, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a society' or simply 'societies'?
Suggestion: a society; societies
...d as they happen to be the forefront of a societies intellectual practice, in order to have...
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Line 5, column 531, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'activity'?
Suggestion: activity
...d rarely somewhere else. For a cultural activities are the reflection of a societys functi...
^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, then, well, for example, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 99.0 58.6224719101 169% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2689.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 545.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93394495413 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83169070408 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94071030929 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.425688073394 0.4932671777 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 901.8 704.065955056 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 4.38483146067 274% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.8235988191 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.227272727 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7727272727 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.04545454545 5.21951772744 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.18367038303 0.243740707755 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0603041959156 0.0831039109588 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0434378911231 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111005363009 0.150359130593 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0267672806606 0.0667264976115 40% => 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: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 100.480337079 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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