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

The concept of cities has been around for a long time in human history. They have been essential to the growth of human beings as a species. Cities are areas where people can stay, eat, trade, work; and they play an important role in the economy of a country. A large part of the population in a country reside in or close to cities owing to many more activities take place in the city than outside it. Even though cities are the backbone of a country, they cannot be made to represent the entire country.
The characteristics of a city will not necessarily symbolize the characteristics of a country. A city can look prosperous and peaceful but it might not be true for the rest of the country. In North Korea, for example, The prosperous image of Pyongyang belies the suffering of the people in the rest of the country. Pyongyang may look affluent and the people there at least seem to be living in peace but the rest of the country has been suffering; most people are not even able to afford two meals a day. The sharp contrast between the city and the rest of the country is astonishing.
One might argue that the example of North Korea is just a unique case. Although it may be true that there are not many cases with such stark differences between cities and the country, there are key differences which need to be considered no matter which country is taken. India, for example, has prosperous cities like New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai etc. where people live prosperous and peaceful lives. But a majority of the population in India is living in rural areas depending on agriculture for income. In fact, India's economy is significantly based on agriculture which clearly shows that a country's characteristics cannot be defined by the only by considering major cities.
A society is not only defined by its economy and prosperity, but also but its culture. Cities are places where many people from other countries come to make a living. These people bring their culture along with them, leading to a city which is culturally diverse. Even though the city is culturally diverse, we cannot label the country so; most of the people living outside the city follow their own culture. It would not be appropriate to label a country culturally diverse only based on the diversity of cities.
Cities accommodate a large population of people living in the country but it does not encompass all the people. It is to symbolize what the entire country hopes to be, not what the contry currently is. To understand the characteristics of a country, cities and the rest of the country has to be considered as a whole.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, so, as to, at least, for example, in fact

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 12.9106741573 23% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2153.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 459.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69063180828 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62863751936 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66788386933 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.43137254902 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 701.1 704.065955056 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.6994694923 60.3974514979 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.7083333333 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.125 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.79166666667 5.21951772744 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.83258426966 290% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0880864357478 0.243740707755 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0303708735347 0.0831039109588 37% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0285411667592 0.0758088955206 38% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0551474286046 0.150359130593 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0331932502006 0.0667264976115 50% => 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: 10.2 14.1392134831 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.1639044944 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.43 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 100.480337079 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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