Marriages are bigger and more expensive nowadays than in the past.
Why is this the case?
Is it a positive or negative development ?
It was one beautiful Saturday morning , when I was suddenly woken from my sleep by a loud music and when I drew the curtain to ascertain the cause of the noise, behold, filling the street in front of my house was a resplendent and colourful train, stretching over 200 metres.Making further enquiry, I got to know that the train was that of the wedding of our city mayor’s only daughter. This kind of scene has become common in recent times and the question any reasonable person would ask is, why do people now have more expensive marriages compared to the past?
One obvious reason for this is the consciousness about image, which has become rather prevalent due to the popularity of the social media. Whoever wants to get married nowadays would first of all, consciously and unconsciously think about the kind of image he wants to create in the minds of friends and relatives. This is the reason for expensive and elaborate pre-wedding photo-shoots, taken at exotic locations all over the world before the real wedding itself. The culmination of the whole exercise is the spreading of these pictures on Facebook and Instagram pages, followed by ‘likes’of friends.Everybody wants the recognition and acceptance of friends and for a couple about to marry, a wedding ceremony provides the opportunity.
Another reason for the extravagance associated with weddings nowadays is the memory it leaves for the couple. Really ,the realization that a wedding is the only occasion in anybody’s life when he or should would be in charge gives people the impetus to make it truly memorable. Many always argue that when a child is born, the parents are in charge and for a burial ceremony the principal is not conscious, so the only occasion when one is really aware is the wedding, so they do not spare any expense to make it really colourful and grand.
Whether it is a good development depends on the individual, as I do not personally have anything against it,especially if the couple can afford it. For a couple that have planned it, by setting some money aside, then they are free to spend their money whichever way they like. The only side I don’t support is that of a couple that are not financially stable and have decided to borrow to finance their marriage. Such an action is irresponsible and nonsensical.
Having a grand wedding is a good thing, but should not be held to impress others or at the expense of one’s financial state. The joy that radiates on the faces of most couples speaks volume of the happiness of the occasion. It is a celebration of life and should be celebrated as such.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, really, so, then, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 13.1623246493 190% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 24.0651302605 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 41.998997996 133% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2202.0 1615.20841683 136% => OK
No of words: 450.0 315.596192385 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89333333333 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6057793516 4.20363070211 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89820546009 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 176.041082164 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 693.0 506.74238477 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 20.2975951904 138% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 83.2484750236 49.4020404114 169% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.625 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.125 20.7667163134 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.75 7.06120827912 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.01903807615 179% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0929662812326 0.244688304435 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0295742984234 0.084324248473 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0503764279972 0.0667982634062 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0456319054399 0.151304729494 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0314140747447 0.056905535591 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 50.2224549098 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.4159519038 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 78.4519038076 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 26.5 9.78957915832 271% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.1190380762 130% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 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.