Television is dangerous because it destroys family life and any sense of community; instead of visiting people or talking with our family we just watch television. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
Ever since it became a core part of family life nearly 70 years ago, television usage has been the target of a variety of attacks. While some people have focused on the physical or mental effects, one particular popular argument is that TV is decimating our sense of family and community since it discourages communication. I strongly agree with this argument.
On the one hand, there is little doubt that in moderation, TV can keep or even strengthen social connections as people can use it as a common topic to talk about. Unfortunately, televisions are rarely watched in moderation, which means its effects on social relationships are most often highly negative. Rather than spending an evening socializing or doing some other social activity, the average family watches three hours of TV. This adds up to twenty-one hours over the course of a week, which is nearly an entire day’s worth of time in front of the screens that could have been spent interacting with family members or community.
It is also possible to see the detrimental effects of TV usage by comparing it to other potential alternative activities like outdoor activities or even board games. Similar to TV sets, these activities are primarily for entertainment purposes. However, both outdoor activities and board games tend to be incredibly social and are almost an antithesis to quiet TV time. Thus, not only do we spend a long time watching television on average, but it is replacing more social forms of entertainment that would be better at building relationships.
Overall, I believe that the attacks on TV for damaging our social relations are justified. The average family spends an extremely large amount of time watching TV instead of participating in social activities. If we want to preserve our family and community bonds better in the future, we had better start searching for ways to reduce our television time.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, then, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1588.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 315.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04126984127 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89764241577 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593650793651 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7488775366 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.428571429 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.21428571429 7.06120827912 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
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: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.231793106911 0.244688304435 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0811993888946 0.084324248473 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060660919063 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148312402843 0.151304729494 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0673897165198 0.056905535591 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 78.4519038076 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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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.