Claim: Even though young people often receive the advice to “follow your dreams,” more emphasis should be placed on picking worthy goals.
Reason: Many people’s dreams are inherently selfish.
The reason makes "follow your dreams" attractive is that it motivates young people to pursue something that is difficult, visionary and even outside of boxes but worthwhile to them, especially when other people don't see the value of the pursuit itself. For example, children may want to become a president, and we may say to them "follow your dreams" even though the adults know how tough it cab be to achieve this pursuit. On the contrary, if the children want to become a clerk, we may not say "follow your dreams" to them since it is easier and also a more ordinary pursuit. Therefore, I would like to argue that there is special meaning of the dreams, when we share the advice of "follow your dreams". The "dreams" here tend to address something that is special and worthwhile of pursuit. By emphasizing this specific context of giving the "follow your dreams" advice, it illustrates the disagreement of the reason that supports the claim. I would argue it is premature to state that many people's dreams are selfish, because if it is only a selfish goal, we may not to say "follow your dreams". Instead, we may see the pursuit as a normal one and don't give any specific attention.
Second, the value of the dreams is diverse to every pursuer. For example, how do we compare the value of the pursuits between becoming a lawyer and a professor? There is no universal standard to claim which pursuit is better than the other one. It's only the pursuers themselves can define the value of the pursuit. Hence, it is problematic to say that some goals are more worthwhile than the other goals, so more sharing about those goals should be given. It may be true some goals can create more social impacts than the others, such as a president may play more significant role than an artist in public affairs and policies. However, each role do have their own social function, so it simplifies the social context if we easily classify certain goals as more worthwhile of pursuit. Just like we can't deny that artists always broad people's horizon in seeing the world and bring the impact that a president can't achieve.
In conclusion, considering the specific context when people saying "follow your dreams", it is reasonable to say that the "dreams" here bear the meaning of significant pursuits. Hence, I disagree that many people's are selfish, since people will less receive the advice of "follow your dreams" when their pursuits are only selfish. Second, it is impossible and unreasonable to define the universal value of different goals, so it is also questionable to identify certain goals are more worthwhile of pursuit. Instead, each goal has their own value to the pursuers themsleves.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 12.9106741573 23% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2328.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 462.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03896103896 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96581663114 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 215.323595506 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.437229437229 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 714.6 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.4954453392 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.4 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.9 5.21951772744 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.97078651685 60% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296709684764 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102974084767 0.0831039109588 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0884557117881 0.0758088955206 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.21804666283 0.150359130593 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0627971669026 0.0667264976115 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.51 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 100.480337079 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 11.8971910112 160% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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