Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Nowadays, people are more obsessed with buying material things like expensive clothes and cars because people judge each other according to their possessions. Agree or disagree？
Judgements affect consumer behaviors. Typically, we recognize people driving brand-name cars, envy dwellers’ of extravagant villas, and despise people in rags. Hence, with the wish of being approved of and the worry of being discriminated against, we become obsessed with material possessions, especially luxury ones.
In our early formative years, our parents and elders around us intentionally or indirectly lead us onto the path of materialism through their actions. This is the case where elders expect us to maintain a certain social-economic standing. When we grow up, and if their expectations are met, we choose to purchase certain material things to display our ranks and success. Another case is that our parents want us to have a specific type of friends. To integrate into such communities, certain kinds of possessions, without which we may find it hard to affiliate ourselves with the group, are considered as indispensables. Hence, our pursuits of material things can be attributed to our desire for elders’ acclaim and peers’ acceptance.
In addition, the chase for happiness, which can be gained from others’ trust or approval, drives us to pursue material possessions. Don’t the following thoughts occur to us at certain points? Firstly, I will not feel complete until I find a partner. Secondly, I can really enjoy if I buy a house. Thirdly, once I get the big promotion, I will be happy. A pattern hence emerges, we often place happiness on some external factors such as material things and others’ acceptance. If such factors are missing, we tend to pin the empty feeling on material things like expensive cars, bigger houses, and greater power. In this case, the underlying intention of our zeal for material possessions is revealed: we need others’ approval and support to fill the void inside us.
At this point, we can equate our pursuits for material things with our desire to be approved of and the fear to be excluded. In other words, it is others’ judgements that lead us to buy expensive things.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, well, in addition, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 52.1666666667 92% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1711.0 1977.66487455 87% => OK
No of words: 334.0 407.700716846 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12275449102 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92385006585 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.565868263473 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 516.6 618.680645161 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.9557561427 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.0526315789 100.406767564 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5789473684 20.6045352989 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.57894736842 5.45110844103 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => 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: 0.153246421543 0.236089414692 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0477873364471 0.076458572812 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0378730228256 0.0737576698707 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111027533091 0.150856017488 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0301890473578 0.0645574589148 47% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 11.7677419355 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.12 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 86.8835125448 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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