Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Movies and television have more negative effects than positive effects on the way young people behave.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
With the development of technology and society, more and more family own their television. However, how televisions affect children is still an open question. Some people believe that TV and movies have more negative influences than positive influences on young people. Personally, I totally stand with this opinion, especially when the following arguments are taken into consideration.
To begin with, TV and movies can easily influence young people's studies. For young children, it is more attractive for them to watch TV instead of learning their lessons, because of the nature of children. They will be easily distracted by the voice of a TV when they are doing their homework, which is a disaster for their study. Take me as an example, when I was a kid, there is a TV in my living room. The first thing I got home from school is to turn on the TV and watch it, instead of focusing on my schoolwork. Consequently, I had terrible grades during junior high school. Luckily, I lived in my senior high school dormitory, where there is no TV. As a result, I abandoned the bad behavior and my grades improved.
Secondly, some movies or TV can teach some bad behavior to children. For instance, there are some violent plots in some movies, which may result in the violent behavior of children. According to a recent study published by Harvard University Press, prisoners are more likely to have the experience of watching violent movies when they are kids. 70% of the prisoners have the experience of watching more than 2 movies during high school, and 40% of the prisoners have the experience of watching more than 5 movies. These figures demonstrate that violent movies have a bad impact on children.
Admittedly, there are some advantages brought by TVs. With the help of TVs, children can have a wider horizon and gain new knowledge. However, with the above negative influence on children, movies and TV must be carefully controlled by parents.
In conclusion, I assert that movies and televisions have few positive influences than negative influences on the way children behave, such as harming children's studies and leading a bad example about violence.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, however, may, second, secondly, so, still, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 43.0788530466 63% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 52.1666666667 86% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1807.0 1977.66487455 91% => OK
No of words: 363.0 407.700716846 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97796143251 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7596129121 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 212.727598566 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.504132231405 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 555.3 618.680645161 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.0564975388 48.9658058833 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.35 100.406767564 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.15 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 5.45110844103 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 11.8709677419 34% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.85842293907 311% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188548774985 0.236089414692 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0610278387782 0.076458572812 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0636492357787 0.0737576698707 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127177757558 0.150856017488 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0586528303547 0.0645574589148 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 11.7677419355 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 86.8835125448 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, however, may, second, secondly, so, still, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 43.0788530466 63% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 52.1666666667 86% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1807.0 1977.66487455 91% => OK
No of words: 363.0 407.700716846 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97796143251 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7596129121 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 212.727598566 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.504132231405 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 555.3 618.680645161 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.0564975388 48.9658058833 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.35 100.406767564 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.15 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 5.45110844103 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 11.8709677419 34% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.85842293907 311% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188548774985 0.236089414692 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0610278387782 0.076458572812 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0636492357787 0.0737576698707 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127177757558 0.150856017488 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0586528303547 0.0645574589148 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 11.7677419355 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 86.8835125448 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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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.