"We venerate loyalty- to our schools, employers, institutions, friends- as a virtue. Loyalty, however can be at least as detrimental an influence as it can be a beneficial one"
Compose an essay that identifies how greatly you concur (or differ with the statement) provided, describing in detail the rationale for your argument. As you build and provide evidence for your argument provide examples that demonstrate circumstances in which the statement could (or could not) be valid. Be sure to explain the impact these examples have on your argument.
Loyalty can be treated as a virtue in our culture but like the flip sides of a coin where does the breaking point appear where blind loyalty does more harm than it does good. Loyalty should be conditional. It should be given only on the basis of merit. It is a virtue that is indicative of the person's faith on the other persons abilities. This faith however should not be based on inhibition. It should be given on a merit basis.
Blindly pledging loyalty to a political party, in my opinion, will only prove to be detrimental. Adolf Hitler's charisma gained him a lot of followers. However their blind loyalty permitted him to commit heinous crimes and atrocities against citizens. If citizens would have been ready to not be so autonomous and would have questioned his actions perhaps the scale of his torturous mechanisms would have scaled down.
Blindly being loyal to your employer can also lead to problems. Say for example, there is a factory and the company running the factory is aware of the safety hazards but does not report them to avoid the cost of fixing them. The employees see the safety hazards and are aware of their repercussions but decide not to report them because of company loyalty. Worst-case scenario is that there is a near-fatal accident or a life threatening situation because the dangers were unreported. This would all be because the company's employees were too
(blindly) loyal and did not go to the company head on time and lay down their concerns.
There are nevertheless benefits of loyalty. It can be good to feel as if you can rely on someone and likewise for them to rely on you. It makes things predictable in that you know how things will run. Consider the loyalty in any relationship, say between 2 siblings. The feeling of being able to rely on your sibling, knowing "someone has your back", will help a person grow and take some risks which he otherwise would not. However that is not always the case. Sometimes some events blindsided us. The story of a mother who kept covering up for her son's petty crimes, and in the end the son was jailed is a perfect example of blindsided loyalty.
Loyalty is detrimental when it is blind, however its continuous questioning can be beneficial to society.
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- "Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather an 75
- "We venerate loyalty- to our schools, employers, institutions, friends- as a virtue. Loyalty, however can be at least as detrimental an influence as it can be a beneficial one"Compose an essay that identifies how greatly you concur (or differ wi 58
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 295, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...t is a virtue that is indicative of the persons faith on the other persons abilities. T...
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Line 3, column 152, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...charisma gained him a lot of followers. However their blind loyalty permitted him to co...
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Line 3, column 264, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had been'?
Suggestion: had been
...trocities against citizens. If citizens would have been ready to not be so autonomous and would...
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Line 5, column 544, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... because the companys employees were too blindly loyal and did not go to the comp...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Blindly
...ause the companys employees were too blindly loyal and did not go to the company hea...
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Line 9, column 436, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ome risks which he otherwise would not. However that is not always the case. Sometimes ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...estioning can be beneficial to society.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, likewise, nevertheless, so, for example, you know, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1863.0 2235.4752809 83% => OK
No of words: 393.0 442.535393258 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.74045801527 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45244063426 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61438958908 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5368956743 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 578.7 704.065955056 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.6550102298 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.625 118.986275619 65% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.375 23.4991977007 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.66666666667 5.21951772744 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.201720194661 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0603499146266 0.0831039109588 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0579046287039 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106222683277 0.150359130593 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0731392989826 0.0667264976115 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.1 14.1392134831 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.8420337079 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.1743820225 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.1639044944 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 100.480337079 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 11.8971910112 50% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.