People in all modern societies use drugs, but today's youth are experimenting with both legal and illegal drugs, and at an increasingly early age. Some sociologists claim that parents and other members of society often set a bad example.
Discuss the causes and some effects of widespread drug use by young people in modern day society. Make any recommendations you feel are necessary to help fight youth drug abuse.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Nowadays, there has been an increasing incidence in the use of prohibited drugs by the youth. Some are of the belief that parents and other members within the community have contributed to this issue. However, there are efficient ways that are proven to keep these youngsters away from the ill effects of drug use.
Peer pressure has been known as one of the leading causes of drug use. To be socially accepted by the groups created by common adolescents, they have to do what they do, and that means being under the influence of unacceptable norms. In addition, they experience the lack of guidance from their parents. Their parents’ busy schedules have prevented them from having time with their kids like most business tycoons who have lost time with them which made them rebellious thus exposing themselves to the use of drugs.
As an effect, their lives become unproductive. They begin to lose interest in planning for there futures. Aside from this, they begin to develop health problems. These are mainly due to the adverse effects brought about by consuming these drugs. For instance, the long term use of methamphetamine, cocaine, or marijuana decrease body functions which could develop in cardiac problems.
However, these can be avoided if parents begin to provide time for their breed. Making such effort are always acknowledged by their children as the one thing that they really need are those who can guide them all throughout. Furthermore, when they expose their children to sports activities and other related programs, they begin to divert themselves from the risk of prohibited drug use. As a result, they begin to have a healthy lifestyle and have a sense of direction.
As a whole, peer pressure and the lack of parental guidance may lead the young ones to the misuse of illegal or legal drugs which could jeopardize them. However, effective measures can be instituted to prevent this from happening.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, may, really, so, thus, for instance, in addition, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 24.0651302605 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1630.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 321.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07788161994 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61077776868 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551401869159 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 499.5 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.4189007266 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.5555555556 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8333333333 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.11111111111 7.06120827912 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.109458867798 0.244688304435 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0367234155568 0.084324248473 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0374121502096 0.0667982634062 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0690155908647 0.151304729494 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0385573481237 0.056905535591 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.0946893788 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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