Due to the development and rapid expansion of supermarkets, many small local businesses are unable to compete. Some people think that the closure of local business will bring about the death of local communities. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Because of the growth and quick spread of supermarkets, the existence of many small local businesses has been threatened. Some people hold that the death of local communities will be caused by the closure of local business. In my opinion, I think local communities can suffer from the success of supermarkets but their vitality, supported with positive effect of supermarkets’ appearance, still remains.
On the one hand, the two main negative effects of the closure of the businesses on the community are that it forces many residents to find new occupations or vocations and reduces the chance to build relationship between neighbors. Because the number of small retail stores shrinks, bankrupted businesses’ owners and employees may have to spend significant time and finance on retraining for a new field, partly prevent them from participating local social activities. In addition, according to social research conducted by The Economist, in the places where supermarkets are not located, nearly half of the amount of communication among neighbors takes place through the sales of everyday goods to each other. Without these activities, local residents have fewer chances to updating individual information to support their intimacy, becoming much more isolated from each other.
On the other hand, the increasing popularity of supermarkets may contribute to retain local communities’ internal connections by paying more tax and providing cheaper but better commodity. Exploiting of economies of scales, supermarkets might earn tremendous profit. Therefore, the amount of tax they have to pay is likely to surpass the total figure of small businesses that are forced to be closed by them. With such huge amount of surplus budget, local councils can be more generous to develop public facilities for their own residents. Additionally, enjoying lower prices of goods from supermarkets, local citizens’ cost of living possibly decreases so that they can expend a higher percentage of their income on collective cultural activities which arguably strengthen their relationship.
In short, although supermarkets can be partially harmful to local communities by causing the unemployment for people who work in local businesses and reducing the communication frequency among local residents, they might not erase the communities but can make contribution to them by providing more capital and competitive prices of goods.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, so, still, then, therefore, i think, in addition, in short, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 41.998997996 152% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2064.0 1615.20841683 128% => OK
No of words: 369.0 315.596192385 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.59349593496 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1053528763 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582655826558 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 644.4 506.74238477 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 28.0 20.2975951904 138% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.6101053834 49.4020404114 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 158.769230769 106.682146367 149% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.3846153846 20.7667163134 137% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.15384615385 7.06120827912 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316555926584 0.244688304435 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120567550523 0.084324248473 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0939135106465 0.0667982634062 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.224316068655 0.151304729494 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.103611905539 0.056905535591 182% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.1 13.0946893788 146% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.6 50.2224549098 69% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 11.3001002004 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.44 12.4159519038 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.07 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 78.4519038076 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 9.78957915832 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.1190380762 130% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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