Older people often say that their life was better in the past than it is now Do you agree or disagree with this statement

It is amazing how much the world has changed over the last century. Many people have wondered whether the ordinary ones in the past had a better life than modern citizens or not. It seems to me that new scientific discoveries and technological advancements have made various aspects of our life much easier than they used to be in the past.
In the first place, in comparison with life in the past, education has been experiencing considerable changes. Instead of entering only traditional classes, learners and educators can take great advantage of the Internet in their learning and teaching. In particular, the Internet supplies different sources of educational references such as websites, videos, online classes, and so on. Accordingly, students can search for further information on the Internet when they need to know.
In addition, technological advancement has made a great contribution to increase people’s standard of living. Clearly, modern modes of transportation not only help people travel easier and faster but also foster globalization, leading to a developing global economy, and set up more companies and plants. As a result, the rate of unemployment has decreased dramatically, which means that people nowadays have better lives than those in the past.
As opposed to the above views, it is believed that there is a striking difference in the quality of the environment between lives in the past and present. In other words, the environment has been affected negatively due to scientific developments such as cars, factories, and industrialization. People today have to face a number of problems related to pollution such as diseases, water shortage, and the like. Having said that, scientists have still been researching to solve the problems, and in fact, many ways have been applied to prevent pollution so far.
In conclusion, although there are some drawbacks to living in modern society to some extent, a variety of positive changes have been generated by technological and scientific inventions, which clearly make people’s lives much better than those many years ago.

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Average: 8.4 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
...sier than they used to be in the past. In the first place, in comparison with l...
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Suggestion:
...uch better than those many years ago.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, if, so, still, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, in particular, such as, as a result, in other words, in the first place

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1778.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 333.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33933933934 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04971773378 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588588588589 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 552.6 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.8428506778 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.533333333 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.2666666667 7.06120827912 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.14790793547 0.244688304435 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0508042309922 0.084324248473 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0553928738012 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0834041369083 0.151304729494 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0430739640076 0.056905535591 76% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.56 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 78.4519038076 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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