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
Loyalty simply defined as having an unflinching support to a cause is considered a virtue by many religions and cultures of the world. In Islam for example one is considered a "munafiq" (hypocrite) when he is not faithful or loyal to the tenets of the religion. Hence loyalty is one of the most universally accepted moral virtue that is worthy of commendation. However loyalty is a two edge sword, it can have both good and bad effect on an individual.
But what do we mean by loyalty being as good as bad? Does this mean that we are promoting treachery vaunting it as a means to an end? Definitely being loyal is a venerated behaviour with innumerable benefits.
For example, Loyalty preserves the foundation of a marriage. It is one of the most important requirement for the consummation of a marriage and it's maintenance. Both husband and wife are required to be faithful to one another. Thus, a marriage with paucity of material wealth can be sustained when both parties are loyal to each other. Consequently, such a marriage will result in the raising of children that values loyalty as a virtue.
The importance of loyalty in a political party cannot be overemphasized. An individual with the least proclivity for unfaithfulness will be denied the presidential ticket of a political party. President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) won the presidential ticket of the newly formed All Progressive Congress back in 2014 against his opponent Alhaji Atiku Abubakar due to the latters propensity for being unfaithful to a political party.
Moreover employers always appreciate and reward loyal employees. In fact, most of the agreement in an appointment letter points towards one thing, loyalty. Employee-employer relationship would definitely not last long if one party is not committed to the terms agreed in such appointment letters.
But loyalty with all it's benefits is as good as bad. it hurt so bad when we are betrayed. Not only that, it can affect our mental health as well. There have been cases of clinical depression due to an acrimonious divorce when one of the spouse betrays the other. The affected spouse got depression because he or she was loyal.
Can you imagine that after several years of President Barack Obama loyalty to the Democratic party he was denied the party's presidential ticket just because of his skin colour or some other unjustifiable accusations? He will perhaps doubt himself for the rest of his life
Hence, in conclusion while it's not encourage that anyone be disloyal, it is also important that we evaluate our loyalty for a cause intermittently. This will obviate possible detrimental effect that such loyalty can have on us and of course enhance our loyalty for that cause once we found it worthy
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: However,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, hence, however, if, moreover, so, thus, well, while, for example, in conclusion, in fact, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2286.0 2235.4752809 102% => OK
No of words: 458.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99126637555 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02727505715 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510917030568 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 723.6 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.6806920274 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.9230769231 118.986275619 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6153846154 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.76923076923 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 8.0 4.97078651685 161% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 21.0 10.2758426966 204% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.352699869613 0.243740707755 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0934564888968 0.0831039109588 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0560425151338 0.0758088955206 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153367911352 0.150359130593 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0612415758897 0.0667264976115 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.1392134831 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 100.480337079 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.