It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are generated and preserved.
Is it primarily in cities that a nation’s cultural traditions are generated and preserved? In another word, are cities the major places that keep the pithy traditions of a nation?Maybe in some cases the claim sounds right, while it overstate the importance of cities and undermine other factors. Therefore, I could only agree partly with it.
It is true that in many countries, cities are the most significant places that record its history and cultural remains. For example, in the US, New York and Washington, both of which thrive in the short hundreds of years, have witnessed the progress of American economics as well as intensive social change. In those countries with long history and gloried past, such as Egypt and China, the cultural symbols also keep most intact in major cities. You could not claim that you grasp the pith of these old cultures unless you visit the great pyramids near the capital city, Karo, or the Palace in the center of Beijing. Since cities, especially major ones, have more resources than other areas, they usually focus more on the preservation of old remnants. In addition, with people from other areas flooding into cities, they carry different local cultures with them, integrating into an organic part of the nation’s unique cultural pattern.
However, in some cases, other places, like downtown or rural areas matter more than cities. During the up and downs one nation experienced in its long history, it is inevitable to change the places of economic and political focuses, thereby bringing the core culture from one place to another. Eventually, the original prosperous cities were gradually abandoned and marginalized, even disappeared, but the relatively new cities thrive up. For instance, in archaeological researches, explorers often come across to some remnants of antiques such as ancient pottery in an unknown remote village, which may imply its splendid past even local people can hardly imagine.
From above cases, the situations vary in different countries, so we need to consider it case-by-case. In a country which is rather young, such as the US and Australia, its spirit may display best in its cities, since it does not experience dramatic changes in geographical focus. However, for countries such as Britain ,India and China which owns thousands years of history, the explorers have to research different areas according to the precedent writings, for sometimes the small villages overweight those big cities in history. Consider from another perspective, both the two respects could not be ignored, it is more rational for scientists to consider from multifarious angles in order to come to an appropriate conclusion and figure out a more explicit and consistent explanation of its past.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'therefore', 'well', 'while', 'for example', 'for instance', 'in addition', 'such as', 'as well as', 'in some cases', 'it is true']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.231683168317 0.238963963785 97% => OK
Verbs: 0.106930693069 0.154291517835 69% => OK
Adjectives: 0.128712871287 0.0886310499679 145% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0594059405941 0.0506014161523 117% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0435643564356 0.0449626384858 97% => OK
Prepositions: 0.142574257426 0.123526278965 115% => OK
Participles: 0.019801980198 0.0379742944744 52% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.6990487144 2.82910677849 95% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0178217821782 0.0316879551592 56% => OK
Particles: 0.0039603960396 0.0014075125626 281% => Less particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.0871287128713 0.0950106342287 92% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0118811881188 0.0245489744465 48% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0118811881188 0.0157978311181 75% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2762.0 2899.98275862 95% => OK
No of words: 446.0 478.390804598 93% => OK
Chars per words: 6.19282511211 6.0591788892 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5955099915 4.65681771538 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.385650224215 0.369966551584 104% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.289237668161 0.285172536893 101% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.233183856502 0.207245337619 113% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.139013452915 0.136322040163 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6990487144 2.82910677849 95% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 234.298850575 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.562780269058 0.492565540709 114% => OK
Word variations: 67.7392804545 56.8184620615 119% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 21.1264367816 80% => OK
Sentence length: 26.2352941176 23.7468607788 110% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.7005184394 62.0618507366 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 162.470588235 143.81877709 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2352941176 23.7468607788 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.941176470588 0.728815259664 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.87931034483 82% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.71264367816 52% => OK
Readability: 55.1590609338 52.2641144681 106% => OK
Elegance: 1.87735849057 1.64547068916 114% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.317419965356 0.39480681544 80% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0874803733892 0.11556216369 76% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.063230326449 0.0736162880345 86% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.518243467785 0.531340600358 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.130354964301 0.15197228837 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.162255270482 0.158818324754 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.209114926679 0.0851127212816 246% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.455280077512 0.388921930462 117% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.030017936041 0.0677916285025 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.263401622446 0.28015025965 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.152753460691 0.0610219844235 250% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.8591954023 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30459770115 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.96264367816 101% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 8.10632183908 86% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.93390804598 25% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 5.0 3.04597701149 164% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 15.0862068966 86% => OK
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay E-rater: 5.0 Out of 6