The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trends of its youth.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The fact that culture changes are inevitable is something that most people would agree. Some people still follow some traditions that were followed centuries ago. It is also true that most youths today do not follow the culture that were being followed by their grandparents. The modern youths tend to change the cultural trends according to their convenience, but I believe that the underlying principles are the same and does not undergo any radical changes. Thus, I mostly disagree with the given prompt because not every youth tend to change the cultural trends. There are still many youths who strictly follow the same culture that have been established centuries ago.
To begin, in some cases the culture does get altered with modern youths' disinclination towards the existing traditions. For instance, once it has been a tradition where the woman had no choice to choose her spouse. Only the man had the choice and once he decides that he wants a marry a particular woman, then they both would eventually get married even without asking the consent of the woman. There are still various other scenarios where the women were forced to follow the culture and weren't given an opportunity to declaim their preferences. This also applies to the educational opportunities for women in ancient times. Even though if a woman wants to pursue her education, she wasn't allowed to go to school. A woman's primarily role was to do the household chores and provide a man with things that he needs. But, that culture has changed in the past few decades and woman are given an opportunity to voice-out their opinion in almost all the matters. They get to choose their spouse and cannot be forcefully married to a man whom she doesn't want to marry. All women are given an equal opportunity for pursuing their education and they have the freedom to choose their career path. This reveals us that the culture has undergone a significant change in the past few decades and the same is being reflected among the modern-age youths.
However, the cultural trends does not get altered altogether. Many rituals, which were established hundreds of years ago, are still being followed by a significant number of people. These rituals are even followed by the youths of modern world. For instance, the tradition of refraining oneself from consuming meat on an auspicious day is something that is being followed for hundreds of years and is still in practice. There is also an Indian tradition where people place a lemon under the tires of their vehicles and runover the lemon and squash it. This was done by people a few centuries ago mainly to kill all the germs in the foot of cows and horses which were the primary mode of transportation. This was followed due to anti-septic quality of lemons. But, people follow this even today where cows and horses are not used as a mode of transportation anymore. From these examples, we can conclude that the culture has evolved but the basic practices hasn't changed completely.
Furthermore, deciding upon the contemporary culture solely by analyzing the modern youths can be misleading because youths from some communities tend to strictly follow their tradition while youths belonging to some other communities might no longer follow their ancient culture. For example, youths from a specific community in India start learning about all the rituals and mantras from a very young age and they dedicate their entire lives to worshiping god in temples. Considering this particular group of youths, one might conclude that most of the traditions are still followed by the current youths. On the other hand, there are youths who are more inclined towards formal education in the fields of science and technology and hardly pay attention to the ancient tradition. Thus, arriving at a conclusion about the cultural trends solely based on analyzing the youths could be misleading and isn't really the most effective way of understanding contemporary culture.
In conclusion, there are some scenarios were analyzing the trends of youths can be a better way of understanding their culture but this is not true in all cases. From the above examples, it is safe to conclude that the cultural trends might evolve over time but the rudimentary principles remain the same. Therefore, a culture could be understood at a superficial level even without analyzing the trends of its youths
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 66, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'youths'' or 'youth's'?
Suggestion: youths'; youth's
...he culture does get altered with modern youths disinclination towards the existing tra...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 305, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hat he wants a marry a particular woman, then they both would eventually get marr...
^^
Line 3, column 491, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: weren't
...n were forced to follow the culture and werent given an opportunity to declaim their p...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 686, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
...oman wants to pursue her education, she wasnt allowed to go to school. A womans prima...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 700, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[2]
Message: Did you mean 'going', 'gonna'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: going; gonna
...pursue her education, she wasnt allowed to go to school. A womans primarily role was ...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 1043, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...be forcefully married to a man whom she doesnt want to marry. All women are given an e...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 957, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hasn't
...ure has evolved but the basic practices hasnt changed completely. Furthermore, de...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 900, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...zing the youths could be misleading and isnt really the most effective way of unders...
^^^^
Line 9, column 418, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...thout analyzing the trends of its youths
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, really, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in all cases, in some cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 42.0 19.5258426966 215% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 57.0 33.0505617978 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 87.0 58.6224719101 148% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3671.0 2235.4752809 164% => OK
No of words: 733.0 442.535393258 166% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00818553888 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.20326558436 4.55969084622 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63097914493 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 307.0 215.323595506 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.418826739427 0.4932671777 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1153.8 704.065955056 164% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 20.2370786517 168% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.958016421 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.970588235 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5588235294 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.32352941176 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 15.0 4.83258426966 310% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.149133491526 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0441555180234 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.043231736141 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103126694706 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0397118778543 0.0667264976115 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.72 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 100.480337079 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 66, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'youths'' or 'youth's'?
Suggestion: youths'; youth's
...he culture does get altered with modern youths disinclination towards the existing tra...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 305, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hat he wants a marry a particular woman, then they both would eventually get marr...
^^
Line 3, column 491, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: weren't
...n were forced to follow the culture and werent given an opportunity to declaim their p...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 686, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
...oman wants to pursue her education, she wasnt allowed to go to school. A womans prima...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 700, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[2]
Message: Did you mean 'going', 'gonna'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: going; gonna
...pursue her education, she wasnt allowed to go to school. A womans primarily role was ...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 1043, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...be forcefully married to a man whom she doesnt want to marry. All women are given an e...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 957, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hasn't
...ure has evolved but the basic practices hasnt changed completely. Furthermore, de...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 900, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...zing the youths could be misleading and isnt really the most effective way of unders...
^^^^
Line 9, column 418, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...thout analyzing the trends of its youths
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, really, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in all cases, in some cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 42.0 19.5258426966 215% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 57.0 33.0505617978 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 87.0 58.6224719101 148% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3671.0 2235.4752809 164% => OK
No of words: 733.0 442.535393258 166% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00818553888 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.20326558436 4.55969084622 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63097914493 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 307.0 215.323595506 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.418826739427 0.4932671777 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1153.8 704.065955056 164% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 20.2370786517 168% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.958016421 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.970588235 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5588235294 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.32352941176 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 15.0 4.83258426966 310% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.149133491526 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0441555180234 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.043231736141 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103126694706 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0397118778543 0.0667264976115 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.72 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 100.480337079 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.