To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
The speaker believes that in order to understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities. While conceding the utmost significance cities enjoy in modern world, I strongly believe that the speaker has underestimated the uniqueness indispensability of suburban and rural areas to a society.
Cities have a short history compared to the scope of human civilization, first existing towards the end of the Renaissance era. And they have had an unpropitious start: early cities were poor and filthy, where less fortunate class squatted and contagious diseases spread. However, after several centuries changes and development, cities nowadays are the face of a country. For laymen who wish to know more about a foreign country, getting to know its major cities is the quick and easy way. For instance, say we let two foreigners whose only impression of the U.S. is from several Hollywood movies to live in the center of New York city and a farm in Missouri respectively for the same amount of time, guess who would have a deeper understanding of the American society? Definitely the New Yorker. The reasons are as followed.
Firstly, major cities are a hodgepodge of people with different background from different part of the country. Thus, while each village, county or state may have its distinct ideas and customs, a metropolis can reflect the ethos of an entire country combined, offering a comprehensive view. For instance, a reporter in, say the Welsh city Blackpool, will most likely predicted a definite “leave” before the result of the UK referendum came out, while his or her counterpart in London could adopt a mixed attitude based on the opinions of different classes of people and their percentage of the population.
Secondly, major changes of a society take place in major cities. For instance, the riot of occupying Wall Street took place in New York, though it reflected the collision between classes all over the country. Yet a man from more remote states would feel less strongly about the event, regarding it more as a news story, as it was not happening at home.
For these reasons, foreigners often easily replace the image of a country with the image of its major city. For instance, Paris has nearly become the synonym of France, and the qualities of Paris: romantic spirit, artistic sense and fashionable designs, etc. have then become the qualities of France. However, other provinces of France vary vastly from Paris, while the important features of the country, such as a long tradition of prestigious mathematicians, highly-developed agriculture and heavy industry and top-notch nuclear technology are often omitted. In this case, observers of the French society will obtain a faulty result if their object is Paris alone.
For professionals who study the outlook of a society, it is also far from adequate to look only at the major cities. In large developing countries such as China and Brazil, the gap between cities and rural areas is egregious. Shanghai and Sao Paulo, for instance, are as modernized as Los Angeles and Tokyo, yet even their neighboring provinces can be largely under-developed. A comprehensive study including all distinctly different parts of the country is then required. Some intellects have long figured it out. For instance, Anton Chekov, the renown Russian novelist, realizing that his comfortable life as a medical doctor and a writer in Moscow was not sufficient to understand his motherland, whose sovereign reaches the edges of the Eurasian continent, and its vastly different people, traveled extensively in Siberia with a deliberately tight budget to really dig deep, hence the birth of several of his masterpiece novels.
To sum up, although major cities provide a relatively comprehensive image of a country, in order to study the country, it is never enough to metropolises only.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 304, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...ngly about the event, regarding it more as a news story, as it was not happening a...
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Line 14, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... is never enough to metropolises only.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, may, really, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, as to, for instance, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3282.0 2235.4752809 147% => OK
No of words: 632.0 442.535393258 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19303797468 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01394158123 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94893753323 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 344.0 215.323595506 160% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544303797468 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 1052.1 704.065955056 149% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 88.079057891 60.3974514979 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.555555556 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4074074074 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.62962962963 5.21951772744 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222606366707 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0625898864809 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.153816608857 0.0758088955206 203% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123271134586 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.139784483867 0.0667264976115 209% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 179.0 100.480337079 178% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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