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.
In this era of consumerism, social media and general competitiveness, it seems that loyalty, reliability, generosity and all the values attributable to a commonly known as a “good person”, no longer means laudable. Publicity has played an important role in this: electronics or home appliances are now far from those which in the '80s were advertised to make our lives easier, meant to be in service to us.
At a place and time when access to any device is almost guaranteed, everything from a coffee maker to a mobile phone is intended to show one´s social status. Someone wearing a high-end fitness tracker band, for instance, is not only assumed to be interested in well-being but a hard-worker who does not mind to spend a hundred more of pounds for the cost of the best on the market. We are then setting the value in the place of the cost, first to the object and then, consequently, to the wearer. If the device is expensive, it must be high-quality, and if someone spends some money on it, he might be a hard worker, a successful person. He deserves it. And that is the message advertisers try to send all the time: you are good enough, trait yourself. Show your love to someone by buying something to them, they deserve that thing.
Fortunately, some alternative movements are arising as a direct result of this materialistic society. Minimalists have claimed the benefits of focusing on the importance of non-material abundance, and they are encouraging others to a conscious step forward decrease and slow-life.
By possessing just the essentials we would be giving back the value to what really worths it. We are not our belongings.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 173, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...ues attributable to a commonly known as a 'good person', no longer mean...
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Line 3, column 172, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'Someone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'wears'.
Suggestion: wears
... show one's social status. Someone wearing a high-end fitness tracker band, for in...
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Line 3, column 309, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'mind spending'.
Suggestion: mind spending
...ll-being but a hard-worker who does not mind to spend a hundred more of pounds for the cost o...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, if, really, so, then, well, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1387.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 283.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90106007067 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01806503456 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.643109540636 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 440.1 506.74238477 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.7332258778 49.4020404114 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.692307692 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7692307692 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07692307692 7.06120827912 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.149232812998 0.244688304435 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0411201579878 0.084324248473 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.048267087567 0.0667982634062 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.082624359324 0.151304729494 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0412243140744 0.056905535591 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.4159519038 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 78.4519038076 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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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.