Television advertising directed to children age 2 to 5 should not be allowed

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Television advertising directed to children (age 2 to 5) should not be allowed

I, personally, would like to agree with the statement that television advertisements should not be directed toward young children. I believe this is true because young children (from age 2 to age 5) at such an impressionable age might not be equipped with the knowledge to understand if the product they are being advertised with is worth buying or not. Let us discuss the same in the following paragraphs.

Firstly, Children are easily attracted to products that are advertised with colourful visuals and lively music. Consequently, They are easily attracted to the products in the advertisements that consist of such attributes, even if it is an underwhelming product. Let us look at an example, Breakfast cereal advertisements (like Kellogs chocos) directed towards children are colourful in visuals, have cartoon characters appealing to children and have fun music. Consequently, young children are attracted to these products, even if the product is not a healthy breakfast option.

Secondly, Children at these impressionable ages can easily feel connected to the ideas and characters in these advertisements. As a result, imitating the same ideas and behaviour in real life. My personal experience is a perfect example for this issue. My niece once saw an advertisement where a child refused to eat her breakfast until she could drink Horlicks. My cousin, trying to imitate the child from the advertisement, rebelled against her mother when she was asked to eat her breakfast.

Furthermore, Children do not have a developed knowledge of the rights and duties of being a consumer. They will not be able to differentiate the products based on their efficiency or value, but simply based on the appeal of the product. For instance, when I was a child I wanted to eat Maggi noodles every day, after seeing the advertisements in between the cartoons. This was not an informed decision, since I did not understand the good and bad aspects of the product.

Thus, I would like to conclude by stating that television advertisements should not be directed toward young children due to their impressionable age and their inability to make informed decisions as a consumer.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 364, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, firstly, furthermore, if, look, second, secondly, so, thus, for instance, as a result

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 43.0788530466 74% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1824.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 352.0 407.700716846 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18181818182 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14401241244 2.67179642975 118% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 212.727598566 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.502840909091 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 563.4 618.680645161 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7527546697 48.9658058833 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.294117647 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7058823529 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.52941176471 5.45110844103 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.346079042068 0.236089414692 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104172373902 0.076458572812 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122333169496 0.0737576698707 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217745161408 0.150856017488 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.138678094115 0.0645574589148 215% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 11.7677419355 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 10.9000537634 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 86.8835125448 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200

Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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