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.
Given the power and influence of the super rich, it might seem as if social status and
material possessions are the new symbols of personal worth, but in everyday life I do not
think this is true.
It is apparent that most celebrities today are admired or envied solely for their material
wealth or position in various social hierarchies. Many of these people are known to turn
their backs on friends, cheat on their spouses or spend their evenings over-indulging in
alcohol and/or drugs. Things like owning a mansion, driving an expensive car and
getting into A-list parties are exalted above old-fashioned values. Ultimately, though, it is
the many readers of gossip magazines and celebrity blogs who reinforce these ideas.
Nevertheless, I do believe that in their day-to-day lives most people still believe in values
such as honour, kindness and trust. In some way most of us want to form loving families,
raise our children to be good citizens, stand up for the downtrodden and protect our
communities from harm. We still form friendships, romances and business partnerships
based on old-fashioned criteria. When our trust is abused or we are unfairly treated, we
see that as a major violation of our relationship and we judge the wrongdoer accordingly.
In conclusion, I believe there is some truth to the notion that status and possessions
have superseded old-fashioned values as a measure of a person’s worth. Looking
beyond the tabloids, however, it is apparent that most ordinary people have still
preserved an old-fashioned conscience.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, however, if, look, nevertheless, so, still, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 41.998997996 69% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1333.0 1615.20841683 83% => OK
No of words: 252.0 315.596192385 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28968253968 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98428260373 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97980468381 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.623015873016 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 396.9 506.74238477 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 26.6520276623 49.4020404114 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 121.181818182 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9090909091 20.7667163134 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.63636363636 7.06120827912 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 18.0 4.38176352705 411% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => 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: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186181866985 0.244688304435 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0637375716246 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0502988945926 0.0667982634062 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0507310893266 0.151304729494 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0469722842752 0.056905535591 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.7 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 78.4519038076 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
More content wanted.
Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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