A person’s worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
We are now living in a materialistic society where people measure our worth in terms of our bank balance and other luxuries we enjoy. It is no longer possible to gain respect just because you are kind, honest or hard working. Hence, I fully agree with the given argument.
The Instant gratification that online users get through likes and comments on their social media pages like Facebook and Instagram can be attributed as the main reason for it. After all, 85% of the world population is hooked to these platforms. People need something to show off in front of their friends and relatives. Hence, they are buying even those things they do not really need. They then flaunt those acquisitions on social media just to show everyone that they are living the good life. Obviously, those who have nothing to show are thought to be poor or miserly and fail to gain respect. A recent survey by the University of Oxford revealed that 82% of participants derive more happiness from owing expensive objects than from doing an act of kindness.
Clearly, the number of people valuing others for their empathy and compassion is outnumbered by those enamored of material comforts and luxuries. It is easier to relate to this phenomenon in our daily lives too. For instance, a person arriving at a restaurant in a fancy Lamborghini, dressed in branded designer clothes would get more attention and preferenceto somebody who does humanitarian work at an NGO or arrives wearing a soldier uniform. While it is disheartening that our society has reached these levels of ostentatiousness, it is the reality of the times we live in.
Overall, it is appropriate to conclude that a person’s worth is judged by the position they hold in society and the expensive things they possess. Values like compassion, honesty and good will are no longer the benchmarks that make them stand apart.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... benchmarks that make them stand apart.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, really, so, then, while, after all, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 24.0651302605 158% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1558.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 317.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91482649842 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7300647593 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.621451104101 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.2544929903 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.375 106.682146367 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8125 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 7.06120827912 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.127067780028 0.244688304435 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0385469177894 0.084324248473 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0345530863885 0.0667982634062 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0817073239955 0.151304729494 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0375101602307 0.056905535591 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.0946893788 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 50.2224549098 121% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.4159519038 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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