Have North Americans become too dependent on the automobile for travel?
Over the last few decades, as environmental awareness has increased, cars have become a very controversial topic. I am of the opinion that people have become too reliant on automobiles. I feel this way for two main reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, I feel that many people have become disinterested in the amount of pollution that their personal vehicles create. It is a well-known fact that automobiles are one of the biggest sources of deadly greenhouse gases, which are the main cause of global warming. However, it seems that many people simply do not care about how much pollution they create by driving their cars. For example, my uncle drives an extremely large sport utility vehicle to work every day, even though he commutes alone. His vehicle is not energy efficient, and he ought to use public transportation or at least carpool to work. When I asked him why he continues to drive such a harmful, vehicle he responded that even though he is aware of how much fuel it uses, he does not care because of how happy he feels driving an expensive car. This example demonstrates how neglectful many members of modern society have become as a result of their dependence on automobiles.
Furthermore, our current obsession with automobiles has resulted in neglected and ineffective public transportation systems in cities all over the world. As a result of people who are obsessed with their personal vehicles, governments have felt justified in failing to develop bus and rail networks in their urban centers. My city, Toronto, is a good example of this. Despite being the largest city in Canada it has only two subway lines and just a handful of underdeveloped bus routes. While this frustrates me quite a lot, most people simply do not care and the issue is never considered by our municipal government. It seems evident that our current dependence on automobiles has resulted in a lower quality of living for many people in Toronto.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that people in modern society are too dependent on automobiles. This is because our love of cars has contributed to global warming, and because it has resulted in under-funded and poorly developed public transportation systems in major cities.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, so, well, while, at least, for example, i feel, in conclusion, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 9.8082437276 20% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 43.0788530466 109% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1884.0 1977.66487455 95% => OK
No of words: 379.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9709762533 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8560929739 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 212.727598566 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543535620053 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 614.7 618.680645161 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.6275198082 48.9658058833 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.666666667 100.406767564 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0555555556 20.6045352989 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.66666666667 5.45110844103 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168441387525 0.236089414692 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0595245054127 0.076458572812 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0652342154251 0.0737576698707 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111865676099 0.150856017488 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0531145850464 0.0645574589148 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 58.1214874552 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 86.8835125448 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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