In many cities young people prefer shopping as a form of leisure activity why do you this this happens and is positive or negative development

There is a burgeoning trend of shopping amongst youngsters as a free time activity, in several cities. This essay is to provide the causes of this situation and analyse its effects.

There are many factors contributing to this phenomenon. Firstly, some people find shopping therapeutic because they can take their mind off their problems. In other words, to draw the attention off from the daily issues, people, who work from down to dusk, addict themselves with this hobby. Secondly, the peer pressure forces teenage to keep up with the latest trends. For example, if a girl of the group purchases new clothes, others also desire to buy same clothing. Lastly, following celebrity culture is the reason for this trend. As young people always try to copy their favourite star, no matter how much it costs them. To cit an example, once a new movie is released, sales of the dresses worn by actress increase rampantly.

It is generally believed that shopping as a leisure activity brings tremendous drawbacks to the to the youngsters and even to their family. To commence with, wastage of money behind clothing is not preferable for young people, thus they never learn to value the money. Furthermore, rather than doing shopping youth can invest their time for some active leisure activity, it helps their mental and physical development. For instance, one of the recent study revealed that, the time one spend in leisure activity is directly linked to their psychological functioning.

To conclude, although, one should be dressed decently according to occasion, however impulsive spending on shopping is the negative development, caused by hectic schedules, to get rid of problems, and to follow famous celebrities.

Votes
Average: 9.5 (2 votes)

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'to the'.
Suggestion: to the
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Line 7, column 212, Rule ID: FAMOUS_CELEBRITY[1]
Message: Use simply 'celebrities'.
Suggestion: celebrities
..., to get rid of problems, and to follow famous celebrities.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, for instance, in other words

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1445.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 279.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17921146953 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69263190374 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 176.041082164 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.655913978495 0.561755894193 117% => OK
syllable_count: 441.9 506.74238477 87% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.2324782865 49.4020404114 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.3333333333 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.66666666667 7.06120827912 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207996656053 0.244688304435 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0658136976573 0.084324248473 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.051216876431 0.0667982634062 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115902567423 0.151304729494 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0447497494529 0.056905535591 79% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.0946893788 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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