Any leader who is quickly and easily influenced by shifts in popular opinion will accomplish little.
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.
The greatest leaders that have walked this earth are those that have been able to visualize the future and galvanise others to achieve the dream. The prompt above states that leaders who lack a predetermined goal will achieve little. To put it succinctly predetermined goals are the bedrock of good leadership. I will defend my position in the following two paragraphs.
Vision is the most important attribute of a leader, great leaders who have left their footprints in the sand of time and brought home the bacon are men who were able to visualize the future several years ahead and sell this future to their followers. A banal example of a great leader in Africa is Nelson Mandela, he saw the future of South Africa as one free from Apartheid and was unwavering in his belief. Deep seated convictions and a resilience that never vacillates are an important cornerstone of every successful endeavor. This is obvious because every route to success is filled with twists and turns and vissicitudes that can make a man lose faith. Nevertheless a man with sturdy determination will be able to weather the storm and arrive at the preconceived destination.
Furthermore, how can aleader who concerns himself with something as fickle as public opinion achieve great things? Public opinion is shaped by the capricious desires of human and sometimes even selfish desires of a rather elite group. For several decades since the days of the French aristocracy the rich have held sway of what people hear and hold true. It is therefore important that a leader who aims to leave his mark double down on what is most important to him and will bring the most benefit to his people both now and from a longer term perspective.
Leaders always have to make tough choices and step on the toes of even thos who were instrumental in their rise to stardom. How can a leader who is concerned about what people think function let alone solve those quandaries so common in leadership? A good example can be seen in the Nigerian government where a seating Governor Udom Emmanuel was brought in by the immediate past governor, the past governor held the peoples heart and still wanted to be involved in decision making process in the state. The seating governor had to tell him off and this tough decision was seen as invidious by some followers but after a while they reaslised it was for the best and they all fell in line. A leader must be able to stand his ground even when his predecessors and mentors are the people o the other side iof the divide.
Most people may argue that leaders who don’t listen to public opinion are despots, however listening to the voice of the people is not the same as being swayed by capricious demands of the people.
In conclusion being a good leader requires sturdiness and a strong will to double down and achieve predetermined goals and objectives and being swayed easily will be detrimental.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 661, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Nevertheless,
...citudes that can make a man lose faith. Nevertheless a man with sturdy determination will be...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 417, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'peoples'' or 'people's'?
Suggestion: peoples'; people's
...st governor, the past governor held the peoples heart and still wanted to be involved i...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, may, nevertheless, so, still, therefore, while, as for, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2414.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 505.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7801980198 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60846277174 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 258.0 215.323595506 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510891089109 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 757.8 704.065955056 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0586672368 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.7 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.25 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105026337035 0.243740707755 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0347121027074 0.0831039109588 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0239981808672 0.0758088955206 32% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0607461594026 0.150359130593 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0121433613381 0.0667264976115 18% => 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: 13.7 14.1392134831 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 661, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Nevertheless,
...citudes that can make a man lose faith. Nevertheless a man with sturdy determination will be...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 417, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'peoples'' or 'people's'?
Suggestion: peoples'; people's
...st governor, the past governor held the peoples heart and still wanted to be involved i...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, may, nevertheless, so, still, therefore, while, as for, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2414.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 505.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7801980198 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60846277174 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 258.0 215.323595506 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510891089109 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 757.8 704.065955056 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0586672368 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.7 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.25 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105026337035 0.243740707755 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0347121027074 0.0831039109588 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0239981808672 0.0758088955206 32% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0607461594026 0.150359130593 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0121433613381 0.0667264976115 18% => 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: 13.7 14.1392134831 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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.