The tradition that the family gets together to eat meals is disappearing. What are the reasons? What are the impact?
Eating all together as a family is an important tradition in many areas of the world, especially in Italy. This costume is gradually disappearing over the years, and families are starting to eat separately more frequently than before. There are several reasons for this change that is impacting families, and I will discuss them in greater detail in my essay.
First of all, families gathering around the table to eat a meal together are a tradition. In Italy, not only we do so during holidays and festivities, but we also have the "Sunday lunch" costume, generally held at the grandmother's house. It represents a special moment during which the family is reunited with the only purpose of enjoying a delicious, home-cooked meal, and reconnect with the rest of the clan. Unfortunately, with changes in society, these traditions are changing too. People have growing difficulties in finding the time to participate in these family gatherings because of the stress of the workweek. And even when they have the time, they are probably expatriates living abroad who cannot afford to go back home frequently enough.
In addition to these reasons, the growing habit of watching tv-series and movies in streaming or online is another important deal-breaker. Each member of the family, nowadays, has a personal display screen or computer on which it is possible to watch videos. With the hectic pace at which we are living our lives, it is easier and more relaxing to watch some tv show that we like while enjoying our meals at home. While this may seem like an innocent change, it is in fact destroying every quality-time we shared with our family members. We live under the same roof, but we hardly ever spend time together anymore.
In conclusion, the importance of our families is undeniable, but the less time we spend together, the less we will feel the importance of being close to each other. This is, probably, one of the main problems that are determining the change in our society, the fact that we do not feel part of something bigger that needs to be worked on anymore.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, while, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 24.0651302605 150% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1737.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 354.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90677966102 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74852369846 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567796610169 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 555.3 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 0.809619238477 865% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.0367096154 49.4020404114 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.5625 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.125 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.4375 7.06120827912 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.139684396223 0.244688304435 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0530982796014 0.084324248473 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0630805564693 0.0667982634062 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0935059737067 0.151304729494 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0717473434532 0.056905535591 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.4159519038 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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