Companies spend millions each year on advertising online, in magazines and on billboards. These adverts can encourage people to buy goods that they do not really need. What are the positive and negative effects of consumerism?
In recent times, we have been immensely bombarded with advertisements. May it be print media like newspapers and magazines, or online advertisements, companies are spending a lucrative amount in promoting their products. These product promotions tempt consumers, and they end up buying things which they actually do not require. This tendency has both positive and negative effects, and this essay will elaborate on these effects.
One of the major benefits of impulsive buying generated through product promotion is that it indirectly boosts up a job opportunity. To balance the supply and demand ratio, industries must increase their production, which is only possible by hiring more manpower. Furthermore, due to the rise in the employment level, the number of taxpayers increases, which in turn enhances a country’s economy. A common example can be seen in the case of the mobile phone industry, in the race of keeping themselves technologically up to the mark consumers end up buying high-end cellphones whose features they rarely use. If there was no demand for these high-tech phones, the production would have been low, eventually leading to a lower number of jobs and even lesser number of tax contributors.
Nevertheless, despite the above positive outcomes, there are two unfavorable impacts which cannot be overlooked. Firstly, attracted by irresistible advertisements, people, especially most of the college-goers, end up buying unwanted products to boast themselves. Consequently, they fall short of money and get seeped into antisocial activities to make ends meet; This ultimately results in increased crime-rate. To illustrate, in a report published in “Youth Today”, it was indicated that over 20% of crimes conducted by youth is because of their desire to possess products for enhancing their self-esteem, which they do not need. Secondly, the other portion of the youth who do not get involved in these activities takes up part-time jobs to afford these items. Ultimately, they pay less attention to studies and end up securing poor grades.
In conclusion, though consumerism has some positive effects as it increases the job opportunities and improves a nation’s economy, it also has detrimental effects which may push a person either into crime related activities or may diverge youth from studies.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, consequently, first, firstly, furthermore, if, look, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1988.0 1615.20841683 123% => OK
No of words: 362.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.49171270718 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16833367373 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 176.041082164 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.632596685083 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 621.9 506.74238477 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.7529247926 49.4020404114 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.25 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.625 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06120827912 113% => 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 : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => 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: 0.143442781035 0.244688304435 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0437690260082 0.084324248473 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0364627656401 0.0667982634062 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0906227917354 0.151304729494 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0355173868091 0.056905535591 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.86 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.22 8.58950901804 119% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 78.4519038076 161% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => 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: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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