Television advertising directed toward young children aged two to five should not be allowed

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Television advertising directed toward young children (aged two to five) should not be allowed.

Ever since the dawn and inevitably explosive popularity of different forms of media, more importantly the digital kind (e.g. televisions), companies and organizations have increasingly invested in various forms of advertisement in order to drive their profits as much as possible. This pursuit of wealth has not been without its fair share of controversies, and this particular topic touches on one of these dilemmas, whether advertisement targeted towards young children should be allowed. In the following essay, I will present the reasons on why this activity not only contains moral/ethical issues, but also that it would affect the normal growth pattern of its audience.

Young children, due to their still-developing brain, are highly impressionable and lacking in understanding contextual themes. Being impressionable is essential to ensure proper mental flourishment upon receiving information from educational sources. This particular trait is the reason for moral concerns, because alongside creating a path to development, being impressionable also leaves children vulnerable, and this is where my point of contention with advertising towards them comes from. Simply put, a human being at such a young age is not able to discern between right and wrong. If an advertisement program depicts an act that would be considered wrong outside of said program and in the society; say, an advert for an alcoholic beverage brand associating the act of drinking with enjoyable activities, it could paint the wrong picture in the child’s mind due to their lack of ability to process context properly. Not only this, but they may also decide to act on these misguided viewpoints due to the malleability of their minds. Using the previous example, a young child might assume that drinking in any capacity could bring happiness and not grasp the fact that moderation in consumption is implied.

Secondly, it has been proven via many scientific analyses that media consumption has a profound effect on one’s mind, and that this effect is multiplied when touching on the subject of younger children. As mentioned, a flexible mind is a defining characteristic of children which may lead to developmental deficiencies. The future lives of kids are created in their adolescent years, where they are most capable of processing and learning novel concepts. With this in mind, why must their future lives be stripped of prospect by exposure to meaningless and futile or even harmful advertising programs? Verbal and social skills are two examples of abilities that may not come to fruition due to excess usage of TV, which most certainly contain adverts with their own subtexts, as a parenting aid.

In conclusion and as stated in the above paragraphs, advertisement towards younger children should be banned or at the least highly restricted due to the readily apparent ethical and developmental issues, and one should never fail to remember that companies and ads do not care for the well-being of their audience, but rather the amount of money they can provide.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, e.g., if, may, second, secondly, so, still, well, in conclusion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 13.8261648746 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 52.1666666667 132% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2581.0 1977.66487455 131% => OK
No of words: 485.0 407.700716846 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32164948454 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69283662038 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02989392563 2.67179642975 113% => OK
Unique words: 280.0 212.727598566 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577319587629 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 780.3 618.680645161 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 30.0 20.1344086022 149% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 77.8552342492 48.9658058833 159% => OK
Chars per sentence: 161.3125 100.406767564 161% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.3125 20.6045352989 147% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.625 5.45110844103 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
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: 0.215487344451 0.236089414692 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0663084727265 0.076458572812 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0618665351814 0.0737576698707 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13445786316 0.150856017488 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0393296985516 0.0645574589148 61% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 11.7677419355 160% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 58.1214874552 71% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 10.1575268817 148% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.17 10.9000537634 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.85 8.01818996416 123% => OK
difficult_words: 145.0 86.8835125448 167% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 21.0 10.002688172 210% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.0537634409 139% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => 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: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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