The following appears in a letter to the editor for the West Lansburg News:
"The tufted groundhog lives in the coastal wetlands of West Lansburg. Ancient records suggest that the tufted groundhog once numbered in the millions. Since they were declared a wildlife sanctuary in 2004, development along the coastal wetlands has been prohibited. Now local development interests are lobbying for the West Lansburg council to allow an access road to be built along the edge of wetlands. Neighboring Eastern Carpenteria, which had a similar sanctuary, has seen its sea otter population decline since the repeal of its sanctuary status in 1978. In order to preserve the region's biodiversity and ensure a healthy environment, the West Lansburg council should not allow the road to be built."
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Chris Polito
Paola Brown
Eng102
25 March 2008
Single Parent Struggle
For many years, children growing up in a single parent family have been viewed
as different. Being raised by only one parent seems impossible to many yet over the
decades it has become more prevalent. In today’s society many children have grown up
to become emotionally stable and successful whether they had one or two parents to show
them the rocky path that life bestows upon all human beings. The problem lies in the
difference of children raised by single parents versus children raised by both a mother
and a father. Does a child need both parents? Does a young boy need a father figure
around? Does the government provide help for single parents? What role do step-parents
and step-siblings play? With much speculation, this topic has become a very intriguing
argument. What people must understand is that properly raising a child does not rely on
the structure of a family but should be more focused on the process or values that are
taught to these children as they learn to mature. Children of single parents can be just as
progressive with emotional, social and behavioral skills as those with two parents.
People claim that the only way for children to gain full emotional and behavioral
skills is to be raised by both a mother and a father. When a topic such as this one has a
broad amount of variables it is impossible to simply link these problems to only having
one parent. In the article, “Single-parent families cause juvenile crime”, author Robert L.
Maginnis states, “Children from single-parent families are more likely to have behavior
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problems because they tend to lack economic security and adequate time with parents”.
The simple statement that raw criminals are products of single-parent adolescence is
absurd. What this writer must understand is that it can be extremely difficult for one
parent to raise a child by themselves for many reasons. A single-parent must work full
time to be able to afford to provide for themselves and their child. They must also be able
to still have time to offer an exuberant amount of emotional time for the well being of
their child. However, even though this may seem impossible, it can be done.
As this subject continues to be looked down on people must realize that single
parents are becoming more common in today’s world. Since 1995 the American family
structure for children ages fourteen to eighteen consists of forty-two percent living in a
first marriage family with both parents, twenty-two percent living in a second marriage
step-family, twenty-one percent living in a single parent, divorced or separated family,
six percent living in a single parent never married family and three percent living in a
single parent widowed family. This is an extremely scary statistic considering that fiftyeight
percent of children in America are living in a single parent family. This is a chilling
percentage because it shows how little faith is put into a relationship before actually
deciding to have children. Unfortunately not all single-parents take the time to perform
the vital tasks needed to raise their children. Parents who think they would never be able
to provide emotional stability for their children by themselves should have taken the time
to think this through before deciding to become parents. Accidents may happen once in
awhile but in most cases adults know what is at stake when planning to have a child.
Plain and simple, if you’re not ready, than don’t do it. If you do decide to have this child
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and you love this child, then you can be a good parent. There are many ways to enhance
the well being of your child if you simply apply yourselves as parents.
Magginnis later states that, “Boys who do not have fathers as male role models
suffer especially”. While it is extremely important for a male child to have his father
around, there are other ways of teaching a young boy the lessons he needs to become a
man. I know from personal experience that what the author of this article is trying to
convey is wrong. I never had my father around while growing up and I did in fact have
many positive male role models. My Grandfather was always there to help guide me as I
slowly blossomed into a young man. Anytime my mother had to work to support us, my
grandparents, aunt’s, uncles and cousins would step up and provide the time and attention
I needed. Therefore, I had the best support group I could have had as a young man. Being
a child with a single mother had its benefits. Although I came to find how hard it really
was for her to always meet the needs of her child, she did the best job that she possibly
could and gave me the knowledge that I needed to become a successful man without the
guidance of my father.
I did however have the experience of dealing with a step-parent. Today, twentyfive
percent of all American children will spend at least some time of their growing-up
years in a stepfamily. This seems fine for single parents because they feel like they can
start over in a new relationship and receive help from their spouse both emotionally and
financially. A step-parent can cause confusion and emotional stress on the child since
they have just had to adjust to only one parent and now have to adjust to a new parental
figure stepping into the family role. Another factor of bringing a step-parent into a single
family’s life is new step-siblings to get along with. It might not be justified for a stepPolito
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parent to punish their step-child like they would their own flesh and blood. As long as
both parents have an understanding that their family comes first and that it is important to
communicate between themselves and with the children, a step-family could survive.
Children who are raised with both a mother and a father have more attention from
both parents therefore they get the emotional time they need to progress in life. This
could be true but not in all circumstances. It would not be beneficial at all to grow up in a
two parent family who did nothing but argue and put each-other down. Naturally, a child
who sees this from a very young age until they are ready to be out on their own would
only follow in the footsteps of all that they have ever known. Children who are raised by
one parent who devotes their time and emotion into their child would benefit much more
than a child who has both parents showing them that fighting and arguing is acceptable.
Not all families are lucky enough to have a healthy structure. It is important for
society and government aids to notice these structural differences and take action. There
should be government funded programs to help assist single-parent families with
childcare and finances for parents who must work and still have time for their children.
Whether it’s a mother and a father, a single mother, or a single father, children
need guidance. They will only become a product of what they are taught from a young
age and these children are deeply affected emotionally by the amount of love and
compassion that is put into raising them. Whichever family structure is implied it must be
one of respect and strong moral values that they can someday pass on to their family.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...young boy need a father figure around? Does the government provide help for single ...
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Line 29, column 83, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: fulltime
...many reasons. A single-parent must work full time to be able to afford to provide for the...
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Line 46, column 1, Rule ID: FOR_AWHILE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'a while'?
Suggestion: a while
... parents. Accidents may happen once in awhile but in most cases adults know what is a...
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Line 73, column 1, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'parent' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'parents'.
Suggestion: parents
...t not be justified for a stepPolito 4 parent to punish their step-child like they wo...
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Line 86, column 11, Rule ID: SHOULD_BE_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean ''?
...ences and take action. There should be government funded programs to help assist single-p...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'really', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'therefore', 'well', 'while', 'as for', 'at least', 'in fact', 'such as', 'in most cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.217360114778 0.25644967241 85% => OK
Verbs: 0.172166427547 0.15541462614 111% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0911047345768 0.0836205057962 109% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0502152080344 0.0520304965353 97% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0595408895265 0.0272364105082 219% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.108321377331 0.125424944231 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0344332855093 0.0416121511921 83% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.68363094987 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0365853658537 0.026700313972 137% => OK
Particles: 0.00430416068867 0.001811407834 238% => OK
Determiners: 0.090387374462 0.113004496875 80% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0236728837877 0.0255425247493 93% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0179340028694 0.0127820249294 140% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 7399.0 2731.13054187 271% => OK
No of words: 1264.0 446.07635468 283% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.85363924051 6.12365571057 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.9626150026 4.57801047555 130% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.344936708861 0.378187486979 91% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.227056962025 0.287650121315 79% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.154272151899 0.208842608468 74% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.100474683544 0.135150697306 74% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68363094987 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Unique words: 481.0 207.018472906 232% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.380537974684 0.469332199767 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 56.2902944349 52.1807786196 108% => OK
How many sentences: 56.0 20.039408867 279% => Less sentences wanted.
Sentence length: 22.5714285714 23.2022227129 97% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.9324576126 57.7814097925 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.125 141.986410481 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5714285714 23.2022227129 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.375 0.724660767414 52% => OK
Paragraphs: 84.0 5.14285714286 1633% => There are something wrong with the essay format.
Language errors: 5.0 3.58251231527 140% => OK
Readability: 45.277124774 51.9672348444 87% => OK
Elegance: 1.27735368957 1.8405768891 69% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.251763913472 0.441005458295 57% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.118545047227 0.135418324435 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0992972056722 0.0829849096947 120% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.718222922304 0.58762219726 122% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.271263793024 0.147661913831 184% => Sentences are changing often in a paragraphs.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0835603443897 0.193483328276 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0701127474679 0.0970749176394 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.0799166331714 0.42659136922 19% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0742832398533 0.0774707102158 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0746284527785 0.312017818177 24% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0748278614245 0.0698173142475 107% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 30.0 8.33743842365 360% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 6.87684729064 233% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.82512315271 207% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 20.0 6.46551724138 309% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 5.36822660099 168% => OK
Neutral topic words: 9.0 2.82389162562 319% => OK
Total topic words: 38.0 14.657635468 259% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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