The best way for a society to prepare its young people for leadership in government, industry, or other fields is by instilling in them a sense of cooperation, not competition.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Ancient humanity abided by one rule: survival of the fittest. In modern times, however, the value of cooperation, in addition to competition, is becoming increasingly realized. But can the value of cooperation ever completely supplant the role of competition, especially when we consider as a society the preparing of young people to be leaders of tomorrow? While it is true that cooperation is an indispensible skill towards leadership in government, industry, or other fields, at the same time a healthy awareness of competition is also necessary in order for one to successfully lead in these same areas.
On the one hand, the value of cooperation cannot be overlooked in leadership, especially in terms of the ability of one to make compromises. Many of the most effective leaders in history have been adept compromisers and negotiators. Consider Abraham Lincoln, for instance. While often regarded as today as having taken a hard line towards slavery, he was notable in his day for the extraordinary lengths to which he went in order to hold the union together. Lincoln famously had to negotiate on issues of state's rights and slavery with the state of Kentucky in order to keep it from seceding too, and in doing so had to sacrifice some of his own ideals in order to maintain unity. In this way, compromise and cooperation surely has its roles in effective leadership, and indeed the same can be said of leadership in industry as well (the negotiation of management with workers on employment contracts is a prime example). But is cooperation the only valuable skill required to be an effective leader?
Upon further analysis, we observe that a sense of competition is indispensible towards graduating to a place of leadership in the first place. The entire concept of a democratic government is based on competition, where various politicians, each with their own policy platforms, must compete for the votes of constituents in order to ascend to a place of power. One only needs to tune into the news during an election year to become aware of this point. Even at the current moment, Democratic party is hosting its highly competitive primary debates in order to select a candidate to nominate for the presidential election. In order for any of the candidates - Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or a complete raft of others - to come to the position of commander in chief, he or she must be able to effectively advertise his or her policies on immigration, gun control, health care, and more, in order to convince voters to vote for them in the primary election. Even in industry, which is not always built on the same electoral principle, competition is still necessary in order to advance to a leadership position. Only a finite number of managerial positions are generally available to a company at any given time. Thus, in order for an employee to earn that much-desired promotion, he or she must be have a highly competitive resume, be able to work harder than colleagues, and be able to attract the knowledge of his or her superiors. Hence, in both government and industry, the ability to compete against colleagues is vital towards securing a position of leadership and cannot be disregarded when we consider how to instruct the next generation.
Furthermore, the constant awareness of competition within the framework of government or industry is necessary for one to be an effective leader once the leadership role has been attained. In industry, the capitalist free market drives the bulk of leadership decisions made by the high management. For instance, a great many of the decisions made by the CEO of Microsoft will be concerned with how to compete with Apple. If Microsoft is ineffective at successfully advertising to consumers about why its products are better than Apple, in addition to making quality products, it is highly likely that the company could lose valuable customers who switch to Apple instead. Hence, in a position of leadership, many industry associates must be constantly aware of their competition. The same can be said of those in a governmental leadership position. The Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi must unite her party behind legislative bills and in doing so be able to compete against the minority party in order to enact legislation. If she does not ascend to a position of dominance and competition, it is highly possible that the Republicans can take up the floor with their own legislative measures that detract from the Democratic agenda. Hence, even in governance, the ability to successfully compete, or advance one's own interests at the expense of others, is required in order to successfully enact the important legislation desired by constituents.
Altogether, we have observed that while the importance of cooperation and compromise cannot be neglected in either government or industry, at the same time these high ideals cannot completely supplant the importance of competition, or advancing one's own agenda at the expense of others. Competition is indeed crucial in both ascending to leadership positions, and in leading properly to achieve the desired effects. Hence, the next generation must be instilled with senses of both cooperation and competition.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, so, still, thus, well, while, as to, for instance, in addition, it is true, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.5258426966 200% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 159.0 58.6224719101 271% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 54.0 12.9106741573 418% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4403.0 2235.4752809 197% => OK
No of words: 861.0 442.535393258 195% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11382113821 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.41689962084 4.55969084622 119% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07238327218 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 381.0 215.323595506 177% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.442508710801 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1462.5 704.065955056 208% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 11.0 1.77640449438 619% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 14.0 4.38483146067 319% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.2370786517 158% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.4405347124 60.3974514979 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.59375 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.90625 23.4991977007 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.71875 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 21.0 10.2758426966 204% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.155593389903 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0430355996271 0.0831039109588 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0338705343197 0.0758088955206 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.098342838581 0.150359130593 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0318887044191 0.0667264976115 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.1392134831 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 216.0 100.480337079 215% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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