More and more people are forgetting the meanings behind occasions, such as national festivals. What do you think are the causes of this? What solutions do you suggest?
Traditionally, festivals are arranged to honour an occasion or an individual. However, in the modern world, people often misunderstand the actual meaning behind these celebrated days. It is argued that the main causes of this are the lack of reminders people receive in their day-to-day lives and the decreasing level of relevance certain holidays have to lifestyles in the modern world. To tackle these issues, Internet and television related solutions will be analyzed for viability.
Firstly, one reason behind why people forget the significance of certain occasions is that they are not regularly reminded. To counter this, an idea could be to use the landing pages of popular websites to remind people of the historical context behind celebrated occasions. For example, Google often alters the logo of its landing page to reflect culturally meaningful days. When people visit the site on the holidays like Christmas and Harvesting, the Google logo is graphically altered to reflect the festivities, and visitors can click it to received additional information on why the day is significant. As most people access Google on a regular basis, the effectiveness and educational value of this suggested solution can be seen.
Another reason behind why people are forgetting the meaning of certain occasions is that these occasions are becoming increasingly less relevant to modern lifestyles. Successful efforts have been made to tackle this through government sponsoring of TV informercial that explain how historical events connect to modern life. In Canada, for example, most nationally syndicated television stations run a brief series entitled 'A part of our heritage', which explains how historical Canadian events, such as the influx of migrant in the 1800s, acted as precursors to modern cultural practices. As this shows, television can be a very effective way to help people better see the meaningfulness of their national holidays.
As is clear, website landing pages and dramatised history informercials are effective ways to help people understand the relevance behind the holidays they celebrate. It is thus hoped these stategies are put into place everywhere to stimulate historical literacy.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1874.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 341.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.49560117302 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96940189803 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 176.041082164 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563049853372 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 600.3 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.6150710118 49.4020404114 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.933333333 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7333333333 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.93333333333 7.06120827912 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.67935871743 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168615450206 0.244688304435 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0595444578779 0.084324248473 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0426766260573 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0988576548364 0.151304729494 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0359965704334 0.056905535591 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 50.2224549098 64% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.92 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.4 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.