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

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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.

Examples of the high value placed on cities can be readily observed from tourist guidebooks and advertisements, which almost exclusively describe major cities. Those interested in exploring France are told to look at Paris, Anglophiles are ushered to London, and would-be Chinese scholars are directed to Beijing or Shanghai. It is no great surprise that cities are prized this much; even during the Industrial Revolution in the United States, cities were declared to be society’s cornerstone and greatest jewel. Nevertheless, this extreme urban focus results in tourists and scholars alike losing sight of a society on a holistic level and even worse, can foster assumptions about homogeneity that create great harm.

In choosing to focus only on major cities, one could easily overlook the cultural artifacts that are most important to a society. A look at the distribution of cultural monuments in Japan clearly illustrates this point. While there are some significant landmarks within urban areas, such as the historic old city located in Kyoto, the vast majority of such landmarks are in the surrounding countryside, including all the most ancient temples and hot springs. These are crucial to understanding the place religion has held in Japanese society throughout history and consequently, the place it holds today in shaping modern values. A similar example can be seen in the United States, where examining only cities means overlooking the beautiful national parks spanning vast regions of countryside. The government protections placed on this land indicate its significance to the American people and society, but it would be impossible to gain a sense of these cultural monuments without venturing beyond the city.

One also loses sight of the broader, holistic picture of how a society operates on an economic level. For example, in the United States, examining only New York City or Los Angeles would give the impression that food is obtained exclusively as imported goods. Foreign snacks and tropical fruit marked with “Brazil” or “Mexico” stickers abound, without any sense of the thriving agriculture existing within America’s own borders. Similarly, gas stations are ubiquitous but without any sense of where the fuel originates. A study of the United States that instead included more rural and out-of-the-way areas would reveal hot spots of natural gas hydrofracking. These uniquely American resources are instrumental to our economy’s operation because they introduce increasing numbers of jobs and decrease our reliance on other countries, but they would be entirely unseen in an overly urban focus.

Even more importantly, looking at only cities gives a false impression of homogeneity within the population. Although cities are often known as meccas of cultural mixing, they are near-homogeneous in one important respect: political partisanship. A common pattern is seen across many countries, such as the United States, France, and Germany, in which urban populations are significantly more liberal than their rural counterparts. It is important to include these areas in any study of a society in order to understand their values and not just those of liberals. In the United States in particular, those living in rural regions have often felt that their concerns are ignored and overshadowed, leading to many political tensions and a divide within the country. For instance, the push for greener fuels in order to address climate change concerns has struck fear in many of those employed by the coal industry. When they feel like these concerns are being ignored by politicians, they are in kind less likely to listen to the other side, which makes it nearly impossible for resolutions and compromises to be made. This demonstrates that an urban focus can not only be misleading but also harmful to the society as a whole.

While cities are often prized as an exciting cross-section of a society, they do not include many of the cultural and economic elements crucial to understanding how a given society operates on a broader level. This becomes dangerous when it leads to assumptions about homogeneity within the population, fostering political tensions and divides that can take a long time to recover from.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 704, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'cities'' or 'city's'?
Suggestion: cities'; city's
...the United States, where examining only cities means overlooking the beautiful nationa...
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Line 7, column 1228, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...also harmful to the society as a whole. While cities are often prized as an exci...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, if, look, nevertheless, similarly, so, while, for example, for instance, in particular, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 96.0 58.6224719101 164% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3615.0 2235.4752809 162% => OK
No of words: 672.0 442.535393258 152% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37946428571 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.09145979004 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01286885509 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 343.0 215.323595506 159% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510416666667 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 1170.0 704.065955056 166% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.6231768771 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.038461538 118.986275619 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8461538462 23.4991977007 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.61538461538 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.0896301813525 0.243740707755 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0268889820279 0.0831039109588 32% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0335511938577 0.0758088955206 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0506660523292 0.150359130593 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0201353559805 0.0667264976115 30% => 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: 16.8 14.1392134831 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 189.0 100.480337079 188% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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