The tradition of families getting together to eat meals is disappearing. What are the reasons? What are the impacts?
In the past, mealtime was a precious occasion for the family to gather and spend time on each other. However, nowadays, due to several reasons, that tradition is gradually vanishing.
In the recent era, people are getting caught up in the hustle and bustle lifestyle, devote a huge amount of time to work with the expectation to become successful and opulent. That costs them a lack of time to attend family meals and prefer some kind of fast food instead. Moreover, the difference in the schedule between each member makes them hardly make time to enjoy the meal together. Parents are always facing the tight timetables or sometimes need to work extra shifts whereas their children engage in classes. For instance, the majority of Vietnamese students participate in extra class after school, therefore, they prefer to eat fast food on the way to join the class in time.
The decline of family meals causes various negative impacts. As a matter of fact, family meals play a vital role to strengthen family bonds between members. During mealtime, people are not only enjoying the food but also talk together, share their stories to have a thorough grasp of others. By contrast, the less frequently people seat on the family table, the more gap between each individual and consequently turn out to be a dysfunctional family. Furthermore, there is plenty of researches prove that family meals can diminish the rate of obesity in youngsters. If the cultural tradition of family meals vanishes, the youngsters will consume more junk food buying outside instead of healthy and nutritional diet cooking by their mother, leading to the exceedingly increase of obesity and other diseases.
In conclusion, the decline of family meal tradition regards the current modern lifestyle and it contributes to the expanding distance between members as well as some specific diseases in the junior.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 24.0651302605 42% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1574.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 309.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09385113269 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63243892837 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.605177993528 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 494.1 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.9023773429 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.428571429 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0714285714 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.8571428571 7.06120827912 168% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => 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: 0.173533334952 0.244688304435 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0608022910599 0.084324248473 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0408623106225 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0996434244085 0.151304729494 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0333727013806 0.056905535591 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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