The surest indicator of a great nation is represented not by the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but by the general welfare of its people.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
I would like to start my statement with the definition of ‘a great nation’ is that the nation is ‘owned, governed and shared’ by their people. Based on this definition, I generally agree with the prompt that the better indicator to suggest a nation is great or not, lies upon the general welfare of its people. However, like I pointed out, it is a ‘better’ indicator, not the surest indicator that I will further explain as below.
To begin with, it is common that the rulers, artists and scientists are minorities in a society, while most of the people are average but contribute to the growth of the nation in diverse and essential ways. Therefore, since the number of the average people outperforms the specialistes in the society, I would say that the general welfare defines the greatness of a nation, in that it provides the benefit to the mass instead of a limited group of elites. For example, northern european countries, such as Sweden, Finland and Norway are famous for their general welfare for every citizen and the people there oftenly ranked the happiest people in the world. Hence, it is pertinent to say that by caring for all the people living in the nation, do make the country great with the evidence of happy and satisfied living conditions reported by the citizens.
Furthermore, it is also noticeable that lots of innovation is coming from northern european countries, such as Spotify from Sweden, and Angry Bird from Finland. This suggests that when people are no longer worrying about survival due to the general welfare provided by the country, it frees people’s mind and energy to more creative and innovative works, which further lead to the growth of the group of rulers, artists and scientists and strengthens the power of the nation. Therefore, a positive cycle is formed from the driving force of the general welfare, in that people are able to spend their time to make the nation even greater on different fields, ranging from politics, sciences and arts.
Nonetheless, there is no only way to form a great nation if different indicators are being applied. For example, the US is viewed as a great nation in their dominance from international politics to technological disruptions, and most of the achievements are driven by a small group of elites. Therefore, it is questionable to say that the indicator of general welfare is the ‘surest’ indicator to decide whether a nation is great or not, in that the US performs poorly in their general welfare, but still continues impacting the whole world with their innovations from the elites. Hence, it may be more reasonable to say that different indicators reflect dissimilar sides of greatness of a nation.
To sum up, from the examples of northern european countries, I do believe that the general welfare indicator better defines the core of a great nation. However, counter examples also exist, such as the US, which suggests different indicators should be taken into consideration when the definition of a great nation is dissimilar.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 331, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nition of a great nation is dissimilar.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, nonetheless, so, still, then, therefore, while, for example, such as, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2542.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 509.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99410609037 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74984508646 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75885201321 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.436149312377 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 793.8 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 31.0 23.0359550562 135% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.047360782 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 158.875 118.986275619 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.8125 23.4991977007 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.9375 5.21951772744 171% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => 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: 0.287789975379 0.243740707755 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102681820741 0.0831039109588 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0546876259201 0.0758088955206 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169069483363 0.150359130593 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0388873005359 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.0 14.1392134831 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 48.8420337079 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.2143820225 128% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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