We can learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.
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.
The issue states that there is more learning associated from people sharing the same views than from someone who has contradictory opinions. Although people having similar views provide more reasons to strengthen a thought, a contrasting viewpoint gives more knowledge about different ways to look at a question and make a well-informed decision. Having looked at both sides of a coin, people can make better learnt decisions that might be propitious for society.
Discussing with people sharing the same views does give more examples to favour that outlook and develops more confidence in a person to tackle a problem. For instance, one of the leaders involved in supporting equal rights and equal pay for women in Kenya was always active on social media sites asking people around the globe about the methodologies she adopted to carry out her mission. Many like-minded individuals supported her actions, reiterated their own life stories and gave ideas about her course of plan. This brought a new change in Kenyan laws. This shows that people learn from others having a common viewpoint.
However, learning from like-minded people often gets flawed because of flattery. People trying to seek favour often nod their heads to please the person infront. For example, most of Emperor Akbar's ministers were sycophants and agreed to whatever view the king had. This costed the king dearly because of poor decisions like the defeat to the king of Hyderabad. Hence, a biased view is difficult is point out and gives a false impression about the idea.
Contradictory ideas makes the person think critically of his own views and examine the loopholes present. After a thorough analysis of both the views, a person is better able to make a balanced decision. Like, Emperor Akbar after the heavy blow in the battle against Hyderabad understood the mentality of his ministers. Thus he started a scheme of rewarding them based on the most convincing counter-argument that can be provided to his views. These contrasting ideas were recorded and analysed in detail to make better decision choices.
Opposing ideas are also great instruments to open new avenues to think on. For example, John Kennedy always kept ministers who were ready to challenge his views. This helped him to correct several mistakes in his ideas which otherwise might have caused disaster in the country.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 321, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, look, so, then, thus, well, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1991.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 386.0 442.535393258 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15803108808 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61905823264 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577720207254 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 617.4 704.065955056 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.1526321314 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.8095238095 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.380952381 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.7619047619 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198714237879 0.243740707755 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0565350869888 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0625189032057 0.0758088955206 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106578600125 0.150359130593 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0685247571046 0.0667264976115 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.