The reading passage states that the policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy products has a number of social benefits. However, the professor in the lecture casts doubt on the points made in the reading.
The reading passage states that the policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy products has a number of social benefits. However, the professor in the lecture casts doubt on the points made in the reading.
First, considering the article raising taxes on cigarettes leads people to buy fewer of them. In contrast, the professor in the article contradicts the idea and further explains that in this approach maybe some people use cheaper and low-quality products cause they can not afford some expensive cigarettes and also lead some people to use unhealthy foods more than healthy foods for ignoring the law.
Second, the reading passage claims that taxing people who engage in unhealthy behaviors creates extra income that can be use for medical costs. Admittedly, the professor justifies the information presented in the reading and makes the points that some people think it is an unfair idea because high-income persons have any problem for pay more but some low-income persons have trouble and they think they are not in the same situation with wealthy people.
Third, the reading passage puts forward the idea that with higher rate taxes the government can use that money for some plans such as building stadiums or public projects. In the same way, the speaker validates the idea and adds that but in most of time the governments kept the money and revenue for themselves and can not prefer to spend them on some public plans and projects.
To sum up, both the writer and speaker hold conflicting views about high taxes on purchases of cigarettes.
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more enjoyable to have a job where you work only three days a week for long hours than to have a job where you work five days a week for shorter hours 60
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important for governments to spend money to improve Internet access than to improve public transportation 76
- claims about salvage logging 76
- fossils collection 65
- the sea otter populations off the Alaskan coast rapidly declining 71
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, third, in contrast, such as, to sum up, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1322.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 262.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04580152672 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44001516969 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541984732824 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 401.4 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 81.1815523653 49.2860985944 165% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.888888889 110.228320801 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.1111111111 21.698381199 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.4444444444 7.06452816374 162% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.306467069757 0.272083759551 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.160482777208 0.0996497079465 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.18283092267 0.0662205650399 276% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223666138571 0.162205337803 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.278462375248 0.0443174109184 628% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 13.3589403974 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 53.8541721854 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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