There are many advertisements directed at children. Parents argue that children are misled, while advertisers consider advertising a source of useful information. What is your opinion?
Nowadays, in the fast development of television media, newspapers and the Internet, people hold different opinions on the impact of advertisements on children. While parents think that they are untrue, other contend that advertising is of great value to provide children with a huge amount of useful information. Personally, I believe that they have both some potential benefits and drawbacks to the development of children.
On the one hand, it is said that advertisements might be advantageous to some extent with regard to children’s experiences. Firstly, children could draw inspiration from advertising programs as well as easily broaden their knowledge. This might be explained by the fact that commercial content is interesting which could address positive, beneficial behaviors, such as friendship, kindness, the protection of the environment and respect for other people and for animals. Secondly, advertisements on television and the growing popularity of online advertising that have lively animations are able to live up to children’s expectations and preferences for entertainment. “The Lego Movie”, which is an extended advertisement for Lego products, is one of the most successful example of a brilliant commercial and a great film. Not only the film offers children valuable lessons through the toy world but also send a message to parents that they could escape the monotony of the business world to spend time with their children by playing with Lego.
On the other hand, I believe that the negative impacts of the advertisements which aim mainly at a target audience of children and adolescents is undeniable. It is common knowledge that consumers, including parents and children, should be wary of the claims made in advertisements since such claims are often exaggerated. These would encourage children to persuade their parents to purchase the products shown in the commercials, whether useful or not. Consequently, the little ones, for example, tend to get obstinate if the product is not brought for them. In terms of children’s health, advertisement programs on the television could be a factor which affects on eating habits and food choices of youth. For instance, the likelihood of children consuming fattening food is high since the frequency of advertisements of snacks, junk food or fast food chains like KFC or Coca Cola has increased, which could be seen as a main reason for the increase of childhood obesity.
In conclusion, although advertisements could bring several benefits to children, it seems to me that the authorities and parents should take measures and regulations properly in order to safeguard children from the negative effects of advertising.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as well as, with regard to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 41.998997996 145% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2307.0 1615.20841683 143% => OK
No of words: 421.0 315.596192385 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47980997625 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.23881293372 2.80592935109 115% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534441805226 0.561755894193 95% => OK
syllable_count: 694.8 506.74238477 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 49.2042935118 49.4020404114 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.1875 106.682146367 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3125 20.7667163134 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0 7.06120827912 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.349385819194 0.244688304435 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.130439613201 0.084324248473 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0733491802106 0.0667982634062 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.234039577833 0.151304729494 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.042127323961 0.056905535591 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 13.0946893788 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 50.2224549098 73% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 78.4519038076 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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