The following is a petition to the city council of Centerville:"Over the past three years, there has been a marked increase in cases of 'sidewalk rage,' similar to the irrational anger drivers experience on the road, but instead among sidew

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The following is a petition to the city council of Centerville:

"Over the past three years, there has been a marked increase in cases of 'sidewalk rage,' similar to the irrational anger drivers experience on the road, but instead among sidewalk walkers. The result is an increase in assaults, property damage, and disruptions of normal pedestrian traffic. In order to address this growing problem, the council must ban cell phone use on sidewalks. Not only do people texting or using their phones slow down pedestrian traffic, but they are also more likely to walk into the road or bump into other walkers. Children are especially vulnerable because they are too short to be easily seen. Middletown passed such a ban and not only have they heard no complaints, but the reported incidents of sidewalk crime has gone down significantly."

The cases of irrational rage on the sidewalks and streets can be traced to distracted people not paying attention to their surroundings. In today's era, this distraction is highly fueled by these cellular phones which command a huge part of the person's attention.

First, the addiction to cell phones has been a major cause of unintended conflicts in public areas. People using cellphones while driving or walking down the street are usually absent minded to their surroundings, this leads to a plethora of problems such as people crossing the road without paying attention to the incoming traffic, people bumping into each other or not paying attention to the tram that rings its bell for people to move out of the way. For example, it has been noted in the city of Hong Kong that every year almost two dozen people get hurt on its suburban rail transport system because they fail to heed the warning by the guards as they are too busy texting on their cellular phones.

Second, a study has been noted that the constant use of cell phones or electronic media tend to lead people to be more irritable than those who are more involved in their surroundings. This being a major problem witnessed mostly in metropolitan cities than the suburbs where many people cannot afford to have a cellular phone.

While the benefits of banning celluar usage in public areas altogether may have its benefits, it may be a pain point for people who may need to use it on an emergency basis when walking out on the streets. A solution to this would be to designate areas where cellular phone usage is allowed similar to the way there are designated smoking zones at the corner of the street.

Therefore while cellular phone is a big gift to mankind, it's widespread incessant usage in public areas is both a hindrance to the people and a safety hazard as well.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 245, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...phones which command a huge part of the persons attention. First, the addiction to...
^^^^^^^
Line 17, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...zones at the corner of the street. Therefore while cellular phone is a big gift to m...
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, may, second, so, therefore, well, while, for example, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 14.8657303371 34% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1538.0 2235.4752809 69% => OK
No of words: 323.0 442.535393258 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76160990712 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.55969084622 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47427504888 2.79657885939 88% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 215.323595506 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.560371517028 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 476.1 704.065955056 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 20.2370786517 49% => 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: 32.0 23.0359550562 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.2581667851 60.3974514979 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 153.8 118.986275619 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.3 23.4991977007 137% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.2 5.21951772744 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 10.2758426966 19% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.04899872721 0.243740707755 20% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0249641597867 0.0831039109588 30% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0312933549489 0.0758088955206 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0294248489317 0.150359130593 20% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0246964047724 0.0667264976115 37% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 14.1392134831 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 48.8420337079 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.92 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 100.480337079 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.2143820225 132% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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