People’s lives are now surrounded by advertisement. This affects what people consider important and has a negative impact on people’s lives. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
It seems that nowadays we are confronted with an inescapable exposure to advertisements. On any media device, be it radio, television, smartphone, internet video platforms and websites or just plain old billboards, advertisements are everywhere. Surely, companies would not spend such considerable amount of money and effort to advertise their products, without having some return in their investment?
Needless to say, many people consider the sheer amount of advertising that is thrown at us quite unhealthy. Nonetheless, it is in everybody’s power, and self-interest, to take the necessary steps to avoid this over-exposure to ads. Hence, I do not necessarily agree that advertisement, no matter the amount in the media, impacts negatively on our lives.
Advertising has not been exclusively in the realm of product recommendation for a long time, if it had ever been there in the first place. Quite on the contrary, advertising has always been to a certain extent some fantasy that tried to manipulate possible consumers on an emotional level. As a male, I am targeted by product recommendations such as cars or shaving products, which are nearly always accompanied by beautiful women, who are not in any relation to the product itself. The message is clear, with this car, and this shaving utensil, you will automatically attract gorgeous women. I would agree that these kinds of messages are ill-informed and moreover present an overly chauvinistic world view that is inappropriate and could have certain repercussions on impressionable adolescents.
Nonetheless, as foreshadowed earlier, I believe that we as consumers have the power to deal with this unhealthy volume of product ads. This power consist of one simple rule: turn off the advertisement. Perhaps this rule could be criticised as ‘easier said than done’, but I would answer that in my household we do not have any television. The only radio we have is in our car; furthermore, we have not purchased print media for ages. We do have, however, smart phones and computers, both with internet connection. Here the solution comes in the form of ad-blockers or ad-filters, which are powerful techniques to block out most digital advertisement on internet platforms. As a result, I haven’t been confronted with a barrage of advertising in a long time, as would be the standard on television.
In conclusion I believe that consumers have the power to avoid being confronted and impacted by unhealthy amounts of advertising. When using technological solutions such as ad-blockers in conjunction with watching less tv, the amount of advertisement is barely noticeable and it is has the positive side effect to have more time for family life.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, moreover, nonetheless, so, as for, in conclusion, such as, as a result, on the contrary, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 24.0651302605 175% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 41.998997996 133% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2312.0 1615.20841683 143% => OK
No of words: 433.0 315.596192385 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33949191686 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.20363070211 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.30816878553 2.80592935109 118% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 176.041082164 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.554272517321 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 733.5 506.74238477 145% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.535567986 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.6 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.65 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.6 7.06120827912 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.125629342724 0.244688304435 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0394960151564 0.084324248473 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0486524128739 0.0667982634062 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.073879293191 0.151304729494 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0820738616935 0.056905535591 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 78.4519038076 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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