TPO 06_ Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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TPO 06_ Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Submitted by Emmilta on Wed, 06/21/2017 - 15:01

In seeking to find out whether our lives are easier than our grandparents' or not, we must initially define the term "easy life". If we define it as a life with less worries, apparently the lives of our predecessors must be considered as easier. However, defining the easy life in a more conventional way, that is a life in wich everyone can achieve what they desire in a less amount of time, I subscribe to the view that our lives are easier.

For one thing, the advancement of technology has eased our lives if different ways. For example, the advent of the internet has provided eager students with the opportunity of meeting famous scientists and attending online classes whenever the intend to. As a result, everyone can pursue a comprehensive education that they desire, with the least amount of money. For example, I currently watch Quantum optics course, which is not a part of my course schedule at university, on Coursera website, offered by Polytechnique university in Zurich.

Additionally, cultures undergo various changes in time. The marriage age, for instance, has changed from the time of my grandparents. At that time, girls were forced to get married when the were as old as 14 years old, and hence, never had the chance to fulfill their desires, for they had to concentrate on household tasks and taking care of their children. But now we can get married whenever we decided to. We can have plentiful time to go to university and study our favorite majors.

To sum up, I believe that, even though people used to have less worries before, they never had the opportunity to live the life the wished. So our lives are easier since we have less restrictions now, and consequently, can put more time and effort on the things that appeal to us.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 171, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun worries is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...e'. If we define it as a life with less worries, apparently the lives of our pr...
^^^^
Line 3, column 241, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...s and attending online classes whenever the intend to. As a result, everyone can pursue a ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 60, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun worries is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...e that, even though people used to have less worries before, they never had the oppo...
^^^^
Line 7, column 179, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun restrictions is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
.... So our lives are easier since we have less restrictions now, and consequently, can...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, consequently, hence, however, if, so, for example, for instance, as a result, for one thing, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 15.1003584229 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 43.0788530466 74% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 52.1666666667 81% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1471.0 1977.66487455 74% => OK
No of words: 306.0 407.700716846 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80718954248 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.48103885553 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74904983216 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 212.727598566 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.578431372549 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 618.680645161 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.994623655914 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6003584229 68% => 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: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.8892560937 48.9658058833 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.071428571 100.406767564 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8571428571 20.6045352989 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.5 5.45110844103 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More 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: 0.0964371489445 0.236089414692 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0318627207413 0.076458572812 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0336534903387 0.0737576698707 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0574909359417 0.150856017488 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329843410298 0.0645574589148 51% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 11.7677419355 104% => 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: 10.62 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 86.8835125448 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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