There is now evidence that the relaxed pace of life in small towns promotes better health and greater longevity than does the hectic pace of life in big cities. Businesses in the small town of Leeville report fewer days of sick leave taken by individual workers than do businesses in the nearby large city of Masonton. Furthermore, Leeville has only one physician for its one thousand residents, but in Masonton the proportion of physicians to residents is five times as high. Finally, the average age of Leeville residents is significantly higher than that of Masonton residents. These findings suggest that people seeking longer and healthier lives should consider moving to small communities.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The debate between large cities and small towns has been a longstanding issue, but now data is supporting the claim that to live a longer life, citizens should consider moving to a small town. While this is important and may be worth publicizing to the general public, there is much more to consider. Health may not be everyone’s number one priority. Some people could argue that it is about living life to the fullest, so for some people the big city lifestyle may be worth risking the health and longevity for a happier life.
Big cities such as Masonton are not only known for the hectic pace of life, but often sought out for that purpose. The argument fails to focus on the benefits of large cities. Big cities offer more jobs, housing, wider variety of food, clothing, transportation, and much more, but with these benefits comes more job competition, higher housing prices, and expensive budgets for eating out or shopping. Another big city example may be the Big Apple, or more commonly known as New York City. It is famous for being a melting pot city in America. Wall street, Broadway, and many high end stores are in New York. Many people enjoy being surrounded by the busy work day or the eventful night life. It is also known as the city that never sleeps. While that may be fun and worth visiting, sleep is vital to human health along with relaxation; therefore small cities may be the way to go.
Small cities offer almost the exact opposite. Small cities such as Leeville, may have only a couple hundred or thousand people who work as small town business owners to serve their town citizens. Small town living promotes supporting one another, relaxing, and community living. There tend to be the minimum businesses and limited competition. Hours often reside with late mornings and early evening to optimize spending time in the community. The laid back lifestyle is proven to keep people healthier and living longer, but it depends on the person’s personality to decide if a small town is the right fit.
Now it’s easy to discuss big cities and small towns, but it is also important to note that there are cities varying in sizes in between, such as small suburbs, which the argument does not account for. Suburbs gives a mixture of small town living and big city lifestyles. Medium sized cities may be the right fit for people who do not conform to a certain lifestyle. They may want something in between the hectic and laid back lifestyle. Lastly, if small towns are promoted for health, it is possible that there could be an increase in small towns which make them bigger and more chaotic and big cities may decrease in population unable to continue the demand.
Big cities and small towns have both their benefits and downfalls, however it is ultimately up to the person individually to decide where they personality fits and how much they value health and longevity versus living a full happy life.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
The essay is out of topic. This is not an issue essay but an argument essay.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 510 350
No. of Characters: 2354 1500
No. of Different Words: 244 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.752 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.616 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.26 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 156 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 96 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.4 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.557 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.64 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.294 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.468 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.079 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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The debate between large cities and smal...
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...ant and may be worth publicizing to the general public, there is much more to consider. Health...
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...th and longevity for a happier life. Big cities such as Masonton are not only...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'benefits'' or 'benefit's'?
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...ortation, and much more, but with these benefits comes more job competition, higher hous...
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...e small cities may be the way to go. Small cities offer almost the exact oppo...
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...uch as Leeville, may have only a couple hundred or thousand people who work as small to...
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...ille, may have only a couple hundred or thousand people who work as small town business ...
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...ss owners to serve their town citizens. Small town living promotes supporting one ano...
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...de if a small town is the right fit. Now it's easy to discuss big cities...
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...tion unable to continue the demand. Big cities and small towns have both the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, lastly, may, so, therefore, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 11.1786427146 259% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2438.0 2260.96107784 108% => OK
No of words: 510.0 441.139720559 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78039215686 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43015149605 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 204.123752495 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496078431373 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 756.0 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 10.0 1.67365269461 597% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.304172778 57.8364921388 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.52 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.64 5.70786347227 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.259261085288 0.218282227539 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0773780816074 0.0743258471296 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0691847715969 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168074589543 0.128457276422 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0308893141879 0.0628817314937 49% => 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: 11.3 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 98.500998004 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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