Sports encourage competition rather than cooperation. Therefore, sports should not be encouraged at school. To what extent do agree or disagree with the statement?
The subject of sports' incitement to rivalry amongst teenagers at school is fiercely debated. Some people believe that any athletic activity or game lead to competition between players, on the other hand, others are convinced that sports are played only for leisure and, thus, have nothing with rivalry. In this essay an attempt will be made to compare and discuss both of the described views on sports' encouragement at schools.
There are two sides to this debate, and I would like to focus firstly on the undeniable fact that competition is an inalienable part of modern society. Moreover, competition is the driving force of social progress. According to this, it is clear that there would be no evolution, especially in any kind of sports, without rivalry between athletes. Competition is needed to, pure and simple, stimulate players' desire for victory. Therefore, in individual sports, such as boxing, martial arts and karate, striving for triumph over an opponent, to state the matter differently, spirit of rivalry, comes to the fore.
Nevertheless, taking a look at second point of view, for some people competition is not essential to play a game. It is unavoidable that everybody, playing any type of games, thinks about victory, however, sometimes, as it is said before, sports are played to feel the spirit of cooperation and team work. When it comes to team sports, such as football, basketball and volleyball, rivalry is not the decisive factor to win a game. What is more, they require cooperation between players, and without which, winning a game appears impossible. Regarding to the given fact, it is obvious that discussed games above can raise pupils' team spirit and strengthen unity of a class.
My opinion based upon an analysis of the two arguments is that sports do not incite competition amongst participants as it is widely concidered. Contrariwise, sports result in the building-up in the friendship and, what is more common, just good relationship between players. Personally, I support the idea of sports' encouragement at schools, as it benefits students both physically and psychologically.
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Discourse Markers used:
['first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'moreover', 'nevertheless', 'regarding', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'thus', 'kind of', 'such as', 'what is more', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.264483627204 0.247107183377 107% => OK
Verbs: 0.151133501259 0.155533422707 97% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0629722921914 0.0946595960268 67% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0453400503778 0.0501214627716 90% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0277078085642 0.0437548338989 63% => OK
Prepositions: 0.130982367758 0.122226691241 107% => OK
Participles: 0.0403022670025 0.0403226058552 100% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.9234671163 2.80594681477 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0352644836272 0.0326793684256 108% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0856423173804 0.0861772015684 99% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0100755667506 0.021408717616 47% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0100755667506 0.011925033212 84% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2126.0 1933.35771543 110% => OK
No of words: 343.0 316.048096192 109% => OK
Chars per words: 6.19825072886 6.12580529183 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.20517956788 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.408163265306 0.374742101984 109% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.314868804665 0.28420135186 111% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.201166180758 0.203846283523 99% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.142857142857 0.137316102897 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9234671163 2.80594681477 104% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.037074148 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586005830904 0.56093040696 104% => OK
Word variations: 66.6439747426 60.7387585426 110% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0891783567 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.4375 20.7743622355 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.7174942832 49.517814964 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.875 127.492653851 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4375 20.7743622355 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0625 0.814263465372 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 52.9243804665 49.1944974215 108% => OK
Elegance: 1.94382022472 1.69124875643 115% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243992282342 0.332605444948 73% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0757385828471 0.102741220458 74% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0414930757721 0.0668466124924 62% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.537878935683 0.534860350844 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.100422049964 0.148594505496 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106530315917 0.134430193775 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0384262431947 0.0742795772207 52% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.411406141686 0.324371583561 127% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0418948420332 0.0638462369009 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182825903468 0.228012699653 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0320913772454 0.058150111329 55% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.68436873747 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.41683366733 29% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 5.90881763527 135% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.5751503006 116% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 1.9629258517 51% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 10.4468937876 115% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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