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Review my AWA Issue Essay (out of 6)
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Claim: The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models.
Reason: Heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideals.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
A society is a culmination of demographics that co-exists under a common territory - each one has its own specific characteristics. Each demographics is influenced by historical events, traditions, and culture, and the extent to which society gets influenced varies tremendously. The prompt argues that the best way to understand a society’s character is by analyzing the nation’s character of heroes and role models. I mostly disagree with this stance for the following two reasons, though I do concede that this claim might lead to reflecting the highest ideals of a society through its role models more accurately.
First, a societal function is dependent on various factors, such as its people, culture, food, education, politics, and a myriad of factors. Take country India for example, my nation has more than 13 states and 2 union territories, is a culture-rich nation, where each and every state follows its own tradition, has its own language to converse, different political influences and the list goes on. Therefore, in order to study a nation's character, one has to consider different dimensions to evaluate a society’s character.
Second, influencers mask their true character in movies by showcasing traits that are not so true and unreal from their real lives. In addition, 62% of youngsters in India consider television actors and actresses as their role models just by fantasizing about the character role that they played in that particular movie. However, in real life, the celebrity might have the opposite characteristics than that they portray in films, hence creating a false impression for the people who look up to them.
However, I do concede that models can represent a society’s nature as the rest of the nation look up to them and try to emulate traits that attracted them the most. According to the Indian Statistics of Business school from 2020, 45% of male children less than 10 years of age, worship “Mahendra Singh Dhoni”, a former Indian Cricket team’s Captain. Dhoni is called “Captain cool” for a reason, as he handles any pressing situations with a cool head.
In conclusion, the best way to understand a society’s ideals and beliefs, rather than having a single-layer evaluation mechanism, one has to dig deep into the society’s culture, values, politics, laws, and a myriad of other contributing factors.
Reason: Heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideals.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
A society is a culmination of demographics that co-exists under a common territory - each one has its own specific characteristics. Each demographics is influenced by historical events, traditions, and culture, and the extent to which society gets influenced varies tremendously. The prompt argues that the best way to understand a society’s character is by analyzing the nation’s character of heroes and role models. I mostly disagree with this stance for the following two reasons, though I do concede that this claim might lead to reflecting the highest ideals of a society through its role models more accurately.
First, a societal function is dependent on various factors, such as its people, culture, food, education, politics, and a myriad of factors. Take country India for example, my nation has more than 13 states and 2 union territories, is a culture-rich nation, where each and every state follows its own tradition, has its own language to converse, different political influences and the list goes on. Therefore, in order to study a nation's character, one has to consider different dimensions to evaluate a society’s character.
Second, influencers mask their true character in movies by showcasing traits that are not so true and unreal from their real lives. In addition, 62% of youngsters in India consider television actors and actresses as their role models just by fantasizing about the character role that they played in that particular movie. However, in real life, the celebrity might have the opposite characteristics than that they portray in films, hence creating a false impression for the people who look up to them.
However, I do concede that models can represent a society’s nature as the rest of the nation look up to them and try to emulate traits that attracted them the most. According to the Indian Statistics of Business school from 2020, 45% of male children less than 10 years of age, worship “Mahendra Singh Dhoni”, a former Indian Cricket team’s Captain. Dhoni is called “Captain cool” for a reason, as he handles any pressing situations with a cool head.
In conclusion, the best way to understand a society’s ideals and beliefs, rather than having a single-layer evaluation mechanism, one has to dig deep into the society’s culture, values, politics, laws, and a myriad of other contributing factors.
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Carcass could you please review my Issue essay?
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Carcass, can you please provide feedback on the issue and argument essays? What other resources you would recommend to use to get grades on my essays? I used Free Online GRE AWA Essay Grader - MBA Crystal Ball resource. However, I found it to be too generous with grading my essays. Thank you in advance.
Argument
Several charitable organizations in Pleasantville provide opportunities for teenagers to engage in community service. These organizations have a great need for volunteers, but in recent years, the number of teenage volunteers has significantly declined.
The Pleasantville School Board should take measures to increase the number of volunteers. Teachers, parents, and other community members agree that it is important for young people to learn the value of community service. Requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities and would also help young people understand the importance of giving back to their community. For this reason, the Pleasantville School Board should institute a program requiring students of Pleasantville High School to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument claims that the School Board should institute a program requiring students of High Schook to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation. The argument relies on the following assumptions:
A) Teachers, parents and other community members agree that it is important to instill the value of community service in young people.
B) Requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities.
C) Requiring high school students to engage in community service would help young people understand the importance of giving back to the community.
Stated in this way, the argument engages in several unsupported and lacks several factual evidence. Hence, the argument is unconvincing and open to debate.
First of all, the argument claims that the School Board should increase the number of volunteers since teachers and parents agree that it is important for young people to learn value of the community service. While it may be a valid conclusion that young people should be exposed to community service, so they learn relevant values that will help them to become better individuals later in life and contribute to development of the community, the argument can be strenghthened if evidence is presented to demonstrate why it is important for young people to learn values of the community service.
Secondly, the argument assumes that requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities. It is a weak and unsupported assumption since high school students may not have sufficient skills, and/or apptitude to perform all the required work for local charities. Therefore, they will not provide much needed assistance to worthy local charities. For example, high school students may be occupied with classes and other commitments while volunteering for food bank. They may not have sufficient availability to attend food bank and perform all the required tasks by the charity. If the argument provides information about level of skills, average time per week required to perform services for local charities as well as availability of high school students in the Pleasantville, the argument could have been much more convincing.
Lastly, the argument states that requiring high school students to engage in community service would help young people to understand the importance of giving back to the community. I don't completely agree with this assumption since children primarily learn about the importance of serving the community through family education, and not when they are volunteering for a certain charity organization. If a value of community service is not promoted in a certan family, it is highly unlikely that children in this family will involve in any volunteering activities.
To conclude, the argument is flawed and unconvincing for the above stated reasons. The argument engages in stated and unstated assumptions, which do a great deal of work in author's argument as a whole. If one of the assumptions is proven to be wrong, the entire argument will be thrown into question.
iSSUE Essay
Claim: The emergence of the online “blogosphere” and social media has significantly weakened the quality of political discourse in the United States.
Reason: When anyone can publish political opinions easily, standards for covering news and political topics will inevitably decline.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
The claim that blogosphere contributed to the decline of the quality of political discourse in the USA due to an ease of publishing political opinions is a compelling one. The reason is that when it is easy to access a certain market, users with a lack of skills may enter the market. Hence, they may not be competent to produce the desired output.
First of all, anyone can post content online. It is quite common for Millenials to post messages about their personal lives, creating a certain persona to gain acceptance from their peers. To illustrate, a lot of millennials assumed a blogger role, leading them to distribute a variety of content across ''Instagram''. With the emergence of social media, Politicians started posting relevant updates about political topics in Facebook and/or Tweeter. It was highly evident during the presidency of Donald Trump. The presidency of Donald Trump was also characterized as the era of unprofessionalism and chaos. His posts in the media were full of slangs, unprofessional language, and unset hierarchy of ideas.
Secondly, people are always looking for an easy way to perform their work. If users are not required to follow particular standards when they post political opinions through social media, they will tend to choose this approach rather than publish political opinions based on the set standards through the formalized media channel. In addition, political opinions posted through social media tend to reach greater audience compared articles published in the magazine. For example, Small sized businesses saturated social media with their postings with the intent to promote their businesses and reach a greater audience.
However, the claim can be made more complete if examples are presented to showcase that political opinions posted through social media don't follow established guidelines and standards. A lot of businesses adopted an online model to promote their services and products. Banks and professional consulting firms tend to post a content following the required guidelines. Hence, it will not be always the case that content posted through social media or blogosphere does not follow established guidelines.
To conclude, while an easy access to a certain market can contribute to the decline in standards to deliver products and services, it may not be always the case that companies will choose to lower a bar to deliver quality services to their customers, especially in the current competitive world we are living in right now where a lot of major companies are struggling to maintain their operations in the market after COVID pandemic. Therefore, author should consider to provide specific examples to demonstrate that an access to publish political content through social media contributed to a decline of standards for covering news and political topics. Without this information, the argument is not complete and open to debate.
Argument
Several charitable organizations in Pleasantville provide opportunities for teenagers to engage in community service. These organizations have a great need for volunteers, but in recent years, the number of teenage volunteers has significantly declined.
The Pleasantville School Board should take measures to increase the number of volunteers. Teachers, parents, and other community members agree that it is important for young people to learn the value of community service. Requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities and would also help young people understand the importance of giving back to their community. For this reason, the Pleasantville School Board should institute a program requiring students of Pleasantville High School to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument claims that the School Board should institute a program requiring students of High Schook to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation. The argument relies on the following assumptions:
A) Teachers, parents and other community members agree that it is important to instill the value of community service in young people.
B) Requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities.
C) Requiring high school students to engage in community service would help young people understand the importance of giving back to the community.
Stated in this way, the argument engages in several unsupported and lacks several factual evidence. Hence, the argument is unconvincing and open to debate.
First of all, the argument claims that the School Board should increase the number of volunteers since teachers and parents agree that it is important for young people to learn value of the community service. While it may be a valid conclusion that young people should be exposed to community service, so they learn relevant values that will help them to become better individuals later in life and contribute to development of the community, the argument can be strenghthened if evidence is presented to demonstrate why it is important for young people to learn values of the community service.
Secondly, the argument assumes that requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities. It is a weak and unsupported assumption since high school students may not have sufficient skills, and/or apptitude to perform all the required work for local charities. Therefore, they will not provide much needed assistance to worthy local charities. For example, high school students may be occupied with classes and other commitments while volunteering for food bank. They may not have sufficient availability to attend food bank and perform all the required tasks by the charity. If the argument provides information about level of skills, average time per week required to perform services for local charities as well as availability of high school students in the Pleasantville, the argument could have been much more convincing.
Lastly, the argument states that requiring high school students to engage in community service would help young people to understand the importance of giving back to the community. I don't completely agree with this assumption since children primarily learn about the importance of serving the community through family education, and not when they are volunteering for a certain charity organization. If a value of community service is not promoted in a certan family, it is highly unlikely that children in this family will involve in any volunteering activities.
To conclude, the argument is flawed and unconvincing for the above stated reasons. The argument engages in stated and unstated assumptions, which do a great deal of work in author's argument as a whole. If one of the assumptions is proven to be wrong, the entire argument will be thrown into question.
iSSUE Essay
Claim: The emergence of the online “blogosphere” and social media has significantly weakened the quality of political discourse in the United States.
Reason: When anyone can publish political opinions easily, standards for covering news and political topics will inevitably decline.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
The claim that blogosphere contributed to the decline of the quality of political discourse in the USA due to an ease of publishing political opinions is a compelling one. The reason is that when it is easy to access a certain market, users with a lack of skills may enter the market. Hence, they may not be competent to produce the desired output.
First of all, anyone can post content online. It is quite common for Millenials to post messages about their personal lives, creating a certain persona to gain acceptance from their peers. To illustrate, a lot of millennials assumed a blogger role, leading them to distribute a variety of content across ''Instagram''. With the emergence of social media, Politicians started posting relevant updates about political topics in Facebook and/or Tweeter. It was highly evident during the presidency of Donald Trump. The presidency of Donald Trump was also characterized as the era of unprofessionalism and chaos. His posts in the media were full of slangs, unprofessional language, and unset hierarchy of ideas.
Secondly, people are always looking for an easy way to perform their work. If users are not required to follow particular standards when they post political opinions through social media, they will tend to choose this approach rather than publish political opinions based on the set standards through the formalized media channel. In addition, political opinions posted through social media tend to reach greater audience compared articles published in the magazine. For example, Small sized businesses saturated social media with their postings with the intent to promote their businesses and reach a greater audience.
However, the claim can be made more complete if examples are presented to showcase that political opinions posted through social media don't follow established guidelines and standards. A lot of businesses adopted an online model to promote their services and products. Banks and professional consulting firms tend to post a content following the required guidelines. Hence, it will not be always the case that content posted through social media or blogosphere does not follow established guidelines.
To conclude, while an easy access to a certain market can contribute to the decline in standards to deliver products and services, it may not be always the case that companies will choose to lower a bar to deliver quality services to their customers, especially in the current competitive world we are living in right now where a lot of major companies are struggling to maintain their operations in the market after COVID pandemic. Therefore, author should consider to provide specific examples to demonstrate that an access to publish political content through social media contributed to a decline of standards for covering news and political topics. Without this information, the argument is not complete and open to debate.
