Science and technology will one day be able to solve all of society’s problems.
Write a response to the prompt in which you discuss whether you agree or disagree. Be certain to fully develop your position and carefully consider ways in which your position could be challenged.
Science and technology have given humanity truly wondrous discoveries and advances. Over the past hundred years, the standard of living for many has risen tremendously, and that is due to advances in electronics, communications, and medicine, among many other fields. And yet, these achievements only benefit a fraction of the people alive today. There is enormous inequality, so there are many people who have not benefited from science. The question is, then, whether science and technology will one day be able to give everyone an equally high standard of living. Furthermore, it’s unclear whether more advances make people any happier. Because science and technology cannot address inequality or address individual people’s happiness, they will never solve all of society’s problems.
For one person to enjoy excess, another person must lose something. For example, Americans enjoy many conveniences, such as year-round access to produce. Advances in food science and transportation make it easier to grow more food more quickly, and to ship it to more places. And yet, people are still needed to make the grow and transport the food. Fundamentally, individuals’ labor is exploited, and even entire societies are forced to work to work on farms or orchards without ever getting the chance to live a different life. The point is that no matter how good food science or shipping technology becomes, there will always be people who get to eat bananas and mangoes year-round in a cold climate and people who must grow, pick, and ship the food. Science and technology might make food tastier and more resistant to pests, but they can’t make us distribute resources evenly or not exploit labor. That is why science and technology will never be able to solve all of society’s problems.
Another case where science and technology can’t solve society’s problems has to do with people’s happiness. Yes, there are many medicines and therapies available to help people be happier and handle stress better, but people are still unhappy, even in wealthy countries. Science and technology might bring better medicine or better luxuries, but they don’t necessarily address fundamental questions about how to live a happy life. Based on advances in technology in the 21st century, we can see that even though people are more connected than ever because of smartphones and the internet, they are also more lonely and depressed. As a society, we rush to perfect computer and medical technology, but don’t necessarily pay attention to what would make our society the happiest. It might be that a simpler life would lead to more happiness, but this would require collective action on our part to make such a life. Without an effort like this, society’s overall happiness will never improve, which is why it is such an important counter example to the idea that science and technology will address all of society’s problems.
As we can see, science and technology are wonderful, and have given us better food, medicines, and communications technologies. And yet, these advances aren’t available to everyone and require the exploitation of human labor to make them possible in the first place. Furthermore, new technology doesn’t necessarily lead to happier people. There is no reason to assume that any future science or technology will have a different effect. We’ll learn more about the world and make better technology, but this won’t address inequality or happiness. Therefore, science and technology are simply not able to address all of society’s problems.
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- Science and technology will one day be able to solve all of society s problems Write a response to the prompt in which you discuss whether you agree or disagree Be certain to fully develop your position and carefully consider ways in which your position c 58
- Science and technology will one day be able to solve all of society s problems Write a response to the prompt in which you discuss whether you agree or disagree Be certain to fully develop your position and carefully consider ways in which your position c 50
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 318, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...nd yet, people are still needed to make the grow and transport the food. Fundamentally, ...
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Line 3, column 436, Rule ID: PHRASE_REPETITION[1]
Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'to work'.
Suggestion: to work
...d, and even entire societies are forced to work to work on farms or orchards without ever getti...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, so, still, then, therefore, as to, for example, such as, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 49.0 14.8657303371 330% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3018.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 572.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27622377622 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89045207381 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8372935573 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465034965035 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 945.0 704.065955056 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 16.0 1.77640449438 901% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.5472118278 60.3974514979 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.785714286 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4285714286 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.92857142857 5.21951772744 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => 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: 0.170668131661 0.243740707755 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0553229543496 0.0831039109588 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0680496066512 0.0758088955206 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117513916295 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0173515034396 0.0667264976115 26% => 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: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.