What most human beings really want to attain is not knowledge, but certainty. Gaining real knowledge requires taking risks and keeping the mind open-but most people prefer to be reassured rather than to learn the complex and often unsettling truth about anything.
We are living in competitive world today where competition is present in each and every aspect of our lives. Starting from grades of students in school to which car we own, how big and luxurious house we own. Everything we have, we compare to our relatives, neighbors, friends etc. In this competitive world what most people want is certainty about their lives, their children’s education and their retirement. So I strongly agree with author’s claim that what most people want is not knowledge but certainty and reassurance. People are not ready to take risks but would prefer reassurance rather than learning complex and unsettling truth about anything.
When one goes to school, different subjects are taught to students. But do most of the students really want to learn new things or is it just to pass the examination? When we ask this question to ourselves, we get that even students from school wants certainty that they pass the examination and go to the next standard rather than exploring new things, new subjects. So if the person in its childhood wants the certainty and reassurance, the same behavior is most likely to continue even in adulthood.
Gaining real knowledge requires taking risks, keeping mind open and lots of patience. But one can see that people nowadays are becoming impatient as the lives are becoming easy. Everything has become so easy with the help of machines. So people are not ready to take risk and be patient. There are shortcuts for everything. People are not ready to devote their lives for complex and unsettling truth about anything, rather be reassured. For eg, as soon as a person becomes graduate, he wants a good job with decent salary, not ready to take risk to gain real knowledge at the cost of job. So, all the person wants is certainty and reassurance of life. No one is ready to think out of the box, go beyond what is being prescribed, break the trend, explore the new ideas and learn the complex and unsettling truth about anything.
We cannot deny that, in history great inventions and discoveries are made by great scientists. But what is the number of scientists compared to whole population, a very small percentage. Good example is, one can see the reducing number of research aspirants over time. A very small percentage of human being are really exploring new ideas, real knowledge and others just following those ideas and getting their lives certain. So, most of the people in today’s competitive world would rather want certainty and reassurance than real knowledge which comes at the cost of everything.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 622, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to complex'
Suggestion: to complex
...prefer reassurance rather than learning complex and unsettling truth about anything. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, really, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2162.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 436.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95871559633 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56953094068 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69783663919 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493119266055 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 651.6 704.065955056 93% => 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: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.7634606262 60.3974514979 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.0833333333 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1666666667 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.791666666667 5.21951772744 15% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => 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: 0.371448784467 0.243740707755 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0992841881562 0.0831039109588 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102317138615 0.0758088955206 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.207684922622 0.150359130593 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0754192960996 0.0667264976115 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.1392134831 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.19 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.39 8.38706741573 88% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 100.480337079 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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