12-2- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People would be happier with fewer possessions.
It is no secret that money and assets have played pivotal roles in various aspects of human life, especially nowadays. To answer the question, it is required to evaluate reasoning adopted by proponents and opponents of the idea of whether people need money to be happy, content and satisfied or not. Some people may hold the view that we would be happier if we had fewer possessions. Notwithstanding, I firmly disagree with the statement and believe we will not feel better if we have less money or assets. In the following essay, I am going to elaborate upon my two convincing reasons and support my claim.
First of all, people will not be happier with fewer possessions because poverty is very painful, and deprived people suffer from this issue in today’s world. Numerous native African people fight for food and minimum requirements of living and they are not happy that they do not have money to cover their expenses or buy what they require. As a recent study carried out in my city, Madrid, indicates, it has been investigated that around 83 percent of poor people, ages 7 to 45, feel miserable when they do not have money at all. This study demonstrates that there is a logical correlation between having money and feeling satisfied with their lives.
My second noteworthy reason is that we do not feel happy with fewer possessions since sometimes we would feel like buying something attracted us to itself. Imagine that money is tight, and you want to buy an unnecessary commodity like toys for your children. What would you feel if you promised your children to buy those toys for them? Were I in that situation, I would feel embarrassed and try to buy the toys as soon as possible. As a case in point, one of my distant cousins had a very terrible financial situation 5 years ago. He had to sell his car to cover the expenses of his daughter’s birthday not to become embarrassed in front of his family. I remember vividly that he was disappointed because he had no choices but to sell his car. Had he had enough money, He would not have had to sell his car and would have become happier in that situation.
To distill my writing into one sentence, I profoundly disagree with the statement that we would feel happier with fewer assets because first, poverty and being deprived of first needs of human life is so harsh; second, sometimes we require money to have fun and without money, we are not able to do that. It is vital that we be aware of money and our possessions or assets.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, second, so, still, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 67.0 43.0788530466 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2057.0 1977.66487455 104% => OK
No of words: 445.0 407.700716846 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.62247191011 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56790519761 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501123595506 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 646.2 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.0154384415 48.9658058833 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.263157895 100.406767564 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4210526316 20.6045352989 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.73684210526 5.45110844103 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.276868706252 0.236089414692 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0837886876748 0.076458572812 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0792832231909 0.0737576698707 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183858473047 0.150856017488 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0416908104466 0.0645574589148 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.81 10.9000537634 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 86.8835125448 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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