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First fix the formatting. The middle part of your text looks like copied from another WYSIWYG editor (different font, indentation of first words in paragraphs, no spaces between paragraphs). It doesn't look good.
This definition is incomprehensible to me. Do you think it will be comprehensible to your audience? Besides, "is defined" creates impression of its being a single universally agreed definition, which is not true.
Dubious. First, existence of objective reality doesn't totally banish subjectivity, a believer in objective reality can still hold subjective beliefs. Your "everything" is certainly superfluous.
Second, although it may be sensible for practical purposes to define "objective truths" as propositions which different subjects would agree upon when using certain approved methods of reasoning (i.e. "proving by rationality ..."), many people would argue that "objective reality" has nothing to do with proving and exists independently of mathematics or science. If there were no intelligent agents, there would be no science, but there would still be reality.
Note also another reason why "everything can be proven" is weird when speaking about objective reality: propositions are proven, but the world is made of atoms, not of propositions.
Who is Dick?
Korzybski I know (do all the readers?), but what par.1 refers to remains mystery.
This seems to imply that in your parlance "subjective reality" is the map and "objective reality" is the territory. But you frame the whole essay as a question "is reality objective or subjective", which is not compatible with the map-territory interpretation.
Anyway, if you want to write a four-paragraph essay, you should probably not choose a topic worth several hundred pages thick book.