The mass media, including television, radio and newspapers, have great influence in shaping people's ideas. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
In the era of omnipresent infiltration of mass media, public opinion is facing the challenge of remaining independent. People’s perceptions and ideas are constantly subjected to the influences of commercials blaring from TVs and radios, sensational headlines in the newspaper jockeying for attention and pop-up advertisements on the Internet. Therefore, public opinion nowadays is entirely shaped by mass media, instead of the other way around.
An individual, even when he or she may live in a society characterized by individualism, cannot stay impervious to the penetrating impact of media’s ubiquitous coverage. A case in point is the U.S.’s public opinion during the presidential campaigning season. People’s stances, on the one hand, can be highly divisive; on the other hand, the divisiveness is not the result of free-thinking. It is the extremely partisan media coverage that has come to shape the American’s way of thinking.
For example, a voter who rooted for Donald Trump did not necessarily understand or subscribe to his every single policy. One might have happened to like Trump as a person because of his charisma or his male chauvinism. As a result of this random affinity, he may have tuned in to a live report of one of Trump’s campaign speeches. Yet after being bombarded by the campaign messages day in and day out, before he knew what really had happened in his own mind, chances are that he might have already become a staunch supporter of Trumpism. Similarly, Hillary Clinton employed the same strategy to influence, if not to brainwash, voters.
Such is the invasive power of mass media, which messes up your brain through relentless repetition and insidious implication. You may think you are the master of your own mind. But truth be told, you are not. You are merely one of a myriad who is in thrall to the sway of their own TV.
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| 2019-12-28 | rex 88 | 78 | view |
| 2018-12-19 | Frank Chen | 84 | view |
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, really, similarly, so, therefore, for example, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1587.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 310.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11935483871 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13409135413 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.603225806452 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 500.4 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5759754695 49.4020404114 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.1875 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.375 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.6875 7.06120827912 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 3.4128256513 293% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.137919193873 0.244688304435 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0435476585727 0.084324248473 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0290266365933 0.0667982634062 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0803587590692 0.151304729494 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.028303334489 0.056905535591 50% => 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: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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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.