The first step to self-knowledge is the rejection of the familiar
Knowledge is the most virtuious boon given to mankind. It is this ability to comprehend knowledge makes humans better and smarter than any other animal who walked on the surface of the Earth. Knowledge can defined as the experience that is gained from learning, it can be constructive or destructive based on the person defining it.The prompt states that the rudimentary step to self-knowledge is rejection of the things we already know. I agree to some extent with the direction of the prompt for that I am presenting two examples which strenghtens my take over this issue.
Let us conider an real life example of the great inventor who has literally shaped our world in the fields of telecommunications, power systems. During his early days Nikola tesla was working under then very respected engineer turned businessman Thomas Edison. In that period Tesla was already brilliant student with various active participation in research sector. One of the project he was working on was the DC power supply of Edison. DC system was brain child of Edison.Inspite of being so widely used and lot of bankers had already invested millions of dollars in this project. Tesla whose main job was to make DC more reliable opposed that very notion. He believed DC power to be fundamentally worseing to humankind and need to be replaced with even better system. This rejection of idea of DC at that time gave rise to what we currently know as the "The Current War". Entire AC power system--Tesla's solution to DC-- we know to today came into existence because Tesla rejected very idea of DC being superior by studyig it day and night. In other words When we know what we know exactly only then can we strive to move forward in right direction.Had tesla used DC to ease his research we would not have AC,radios etc.
Although there are some instances where this attitude might not be that helpful, as defined earlier knowledge is experience,it is foolish move to ignore the effects of previous experience.There might be some tools which have been shaped so accurately by previous generation that they form the dogma of science,One such example is Theory of Gravitation put forth by Newton. Newton in his book explained how Nature works and Why should it behave the way we observe it right now.This theory was accecpted worldwide by many scientist as it scientifically proved by conductiong various experiments.Years after this theory another great Physicist named Alber Einstein researched the same Gravitation theory put forth by Newton but this research was different he assumed the theory to be true and the followed the hypothetical experiments to prove it wrong,and thus was"Theory of Relativity" Born. Einstein's work on Gravitation explains us all that not all past experience might be wrong they might be limited in their scope so to answer is must use it as accleartion boost because it alreay been proven.
In conclusion rejection of the familiar should not be the first step to self-knowledge although it doesn't mean that is shouldn't br be the step to take. It depends upon how an individual looks at his problem,Does he realises how accurate the past familiar knowledge is? or is he an advocate of completely new outlook on the solution without using any past experiences of personality?
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, look, so, then, thus, as to, in conclusion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 33.0505617978 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2766.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 551.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01996370236 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84493438435 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96957074351 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 303.0 215.323595506 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549909255898 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 858.6 704.065955056 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 107.446730988 60.3974514979 178% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.3 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.55 23.4991977007 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.7 5.21951772744 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 23.0 7.80617977528 295% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160526159856 0.243740707755 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0551559200593 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.116270413256 0.0758088955206 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146458801563 0.150359130593 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.139609005758 0.0667264976115 209% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.1392134831 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 146.0 100.480337079 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 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.