Life is challenging. In order to be happy and successful, we need to prepare ourselves on many fronts. Although participating in enjoyable activities is always desirable, in my view it is also necessary at times to do things we do not enjoy. The bases for my view are personal, social and financial.
Personally, doing things we don’t care for builds character and helps us mature. For instance, when parents have their first baby they are forced to give up their freedom in order to look after the child. There are times when parents barely get enough sleep and still have to get up and go to wo...
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Score: 27 in 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 350 350
No. of Characters: 1640 1500
No. of Different Words: 203 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.325 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.686 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.74 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 107 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 49 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.327 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.381 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.279 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.499 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.16 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5