A person’s worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material
possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem
important.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own
knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
Some people say that the times, when people were judged by the positive traits of their character are long gone. Accordingly to them, a person's status is based on wealth and being a celebrity. As disheartening as it is, I agree with this opinion.
Until quite recently person's worth was commonly decided by their character; being kind, honest and trustworthy was admirable. Unfortunately, this old-fashion values has lost its importance while being replaced with superficial and meaningless one's. Nowadays, celebrity status is something acquired, usually with the use of personal wealth and social media popularity. For example Kim Kardashian became famous only because she was a friend to Paris Hilton, who in turn, was best known for being a daughter of a head of a hotel empire. Next step in creating The Kardashian brand was the infamous video, apparently leaked by an ex-partner. That led to increased social presents and in turn creation of the TV show.
Furthermore, this evenement is observed in schools, starting at the primary level and only gets escalated with age. It is common for children to be automatically assigned to cliques based on their clothing: brand and value, and popularity. Kids outside the group often are bullied and excluded from certain activities like parties or outings. Their personal values, like kindness, helpfulness or respectfulness, are dismissed as old-fashioned and not important. Recent research conducted at the University of Keele shows that, worryingly, 78% of 10-year-olds would prefer to be a friend with someone famous, rather than compassionate.
In conclusion, it seems that current bias is towards judging people by their possession and popularity, while the old-fashion values are a part of the bygone era.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Accordingly,
...raits of their character are long gone. Accordingly to them, a persons status is based on w...
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Line 1, column 137, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...r are long gone. Accordingly to them, a persons status is based on wealth and being a c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, apparently, furthermore, so, while, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 7.0 314% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 6.8 191% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 3.15609756098 190% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 5.60731707317 339% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 33.7804878049 110% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1490.0 965.302439024 154% => OK
No of words: 279.0 196.424390244 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34050179211 4.92477711251 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 3.73543355544 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99480329099 2.65546596893 113% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 106.607317073 169% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.645161290323 0.547539520022 118% => OK
syllable_count: 452.7 283.868780488 159% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.45097560976 110% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 1.53170731707 457% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 4.33902439024 23% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.07073170732 374% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 3.36585365854 89% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 8.94146341463 168% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.4926829268 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.9767971435 43.030603864 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.3333333333 112.824112599 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6 22.9334400587 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.23603664747 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 3.70975609756 270% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 1.13902439024 351% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241633102854 0.215688989381 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0764419626951 0.103423049105 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0571683521004 0.0843802449381 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142769345324 0.15604864568 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0267585924986 0.0819641961636 33% => 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: 13.0 13.2329268293 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 61.2550243902 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 11.4140731707 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.06136585366 118% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 40.7170731707 216% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.4329268293 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.9970731707 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.0658536585 90% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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