Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Feeling comfortable and being at ease is something that probably most of us strive for during our lifetime. Without that feeling, life can be extremely exhausting and few would be able to tolerate it. Some believe that life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when our grandparents were children while others may disagree. In my view, life has become significantly more convenient for two major reasons.

The main reason is that technological advances during the 20th century have been exceptionally occurring at a rapid rate. That has, in turn, provided us with a relatively more comfortable and relaxing life. For instance, inventions such as internet, vaccination and numerous others have truly transformed the way we live, mostly for good. I remember reading an autobiography of a famous merchant in my country who has gathered an accurate record of his everyday life and through it has provided his readers with a transparent overview of what life was like around 100 years ago. It might seem unbelievable but some curable diseases were huge catastrophes at that time. As a matter of fact, around half of the population of my country Iran vanished because of these illnesses such as cholera. daily life was not easy either. Simple tasks that can be done in a matter of seconds nowadays were drastically toilsome and time-consuming. Shopping, for instance, could have been a major difficulty since lots of commodities were not available in local markets and one had to travel a long distance to acquire what was needed. This was additionally difficult owing to the fact that means of transportation were limited and in most cases too slow.

Another reason why life today has become more convenient is the abundance of about everything we need as humans to survive which was brought about by the efficient division of labor and industrial revolution. Today we don't have to spend hours doing repetitive activities in order to satisfy our basic needs thus we are left with more available time to allocate to various other beneficial things like education.For instance, I remember when I was a child, maybe around 5-6 years old, my grandfather used to tell me stories about how life was when he was younger. He would tell me about the hardship they had to endure just about every day only to obtain water. They basically had to go to a spring or a river in their proximity with a large bucket in their hands to fill. It is not hard to imagine that they had to do it many times since water is used extensively in our daily lives. That notified me about the real calamity they had to face in their everyday life even for simplest matters.

In sum, while some may not buy into this idea, life is much more convenient and enjoyable today than few generations ago. Not only massive technological progress but also the surplus of different resources have contributed to this improvement. I believe that we all should be grateful for this opportunity and use it to the best of ability to foster a better a quality of life for generations to come.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Daily
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Suggestion: don't
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Suggestion: For
... other beneficial things like education.For instance, I remember when I was a child...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, second, so, thus, while, for instance, such as, as a matter of fact, in most cases, in my view

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 15.1003584229 192% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 43.0788530466 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 76.0 52.1666666667 146% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2537.0 1977.66487455 128% => OK
No of words: 525.0 407.700716846 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83238095238 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78673985869 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77298270939 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 283.0 212.727598566 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539047619048 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 835.2 618.680645161 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.5621839519 48.9658058833 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.304347826 100.406767564 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8260869565 20.6045352989 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.95652173913 5.45110844103 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213658689444 0.236089414692 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0624686207797 0.076458572812 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0733282057261 0.0737576698707 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133610231278 0.150856017488 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0541578797879 0.0645574589148 84% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 11.7677419355 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 58.1214874552 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.03 10.9000537634 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 86.8835125448 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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