It is widely argued that consumerism is promoting materialistic tendencies among people while as per others it signifies success and high standard of living. In my opinion, increased consumerism does not guarantee satisfaction and happiness within people. This essay will discuss the merits and demerits of this development.
To begin with, the rise of consumerism certainly depicts the growth in the economy. As a result, people are able to afford more luxury cars, houses, and other facilities to lead a comfortable life. Also, as the economy is growing more jobs are being created, hence a lower rate of unemployment. For example, some developing countries like India, uncountable jobs are emerging and youth of the country is earning more than before thus the poverty is reducing in the country. Additionally, consumerism also provides people with more choices, because to win the customer companies are developing innovative and creative products. For instance, Coca Cola and Pepsi are introducing a wide range of beverage flavors every day to lure their customers. Further, malls and shopping complexes are running sales, discounts, and promotions which enable users to purchase much more in less amount of money.
On the flip side, people are feeling more stressed due to the competition. It is evident that people are becoming more money minded and they started measuring the success with possessions. Furthermore, to display themselves thriving and to bestow expensive goods and services, people are working too much and not able to enjoy their personal lives. In addition to this, with countless sales, people are buying unnecessary items and causing clutters at their homes which is a complete waste of money. Moreover, it also encouraging throwing away culture, as soon as people witness a new product they immediately order it and get rid of the older products. With such a rat race, people do not feel content and often feel distressed and unhappy.
To recapitulate, undoubtedly, the quality of life has become better with increased consumerism, however, people are barely enjoying their materialistic possessions and chasing new merchandise. In my opinion, the cons certainly outweigh the pros.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, hence, however, if, moreover, so, thus, while, for example, for instance, in addition, as a result, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 10.4138276553 173% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1871.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 348.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37643678161 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88491293085 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 176.041082164 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.612068965517 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 595.8 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.6528531815 49.4020404114 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.944444444 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3333333333 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.16666666667 7.06120827912 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0960119449635 0.244688304435 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.029531737425 0.084324248473 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0215565156018 0.0667982634062 32% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0580624814534 0.151304729494 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.018529300809 0.056905535591 33% => 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: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.89 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 78.4519038076 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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