Some people say the main way to be happy in life is to have a lot of money. How might having a lot of money make people happy? What other things in life can make people happy?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
It is not a stretch to say that some sort of money has always been at the center of every human society, long before cash money was even a thing. In fact, at the time when barter was the basis of transactions, the concepts of affluence and poverty were also applicable. It is cerainly not a coincidence. This general sense of money refers to any material assets or valuables in one's possession, whether they are properties, gold, land, crops, etc. Intuitively, one can see the possible link between those physical resources and the general well-being of humans.
The notion of linking happiness to money has roots in the partly physical nature of humans themselves. The most obviously associated need is food. It is hardly ever provided for free in a good quality. While sex is certainly not a commodity (at least in its finest form, which is contractual marriage), it also has material requirements in order to remain as a motive for the basic nucleus of society: the family. Not only are males typically required to provide for the partners who are more involved in nurturing offspring, but they have to maintain their health to stay capable of reproducing too. But even higher-level needs and more sophisticated sources of happiness appear to be linked to money. For all its abstract nature, the intellectual reward of knowledge, for example, comes at a cost. The institutional character of any appropriate education system means that there is always a financial toll. The same goes for vocational training or sports academies.
As it turns out, however, there is only so much that money can achieve. Namely, the need for money stops at the basic level of giving access to the resource. To actually utilize it is a different story. Eating, for instance, cannot be an end in and of itself. It is only useful inasmuch as it enables people to go about their more advanced endeavors. Furthermore, sex and intimacy are only uplifted by love. As spiritual entities, humans strive to have the sense of purpose in their lives. They are fond of eternality and cling at the idea of leaving legacy. These are things that are simply priceless.
In conclusion, while it is very understandable to link money with happiness, the latter does not necessarily follow from the former. In the language of logicians, money is a condition rather than a cause for happiness.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 379, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
... to any material assets or valuables in ones possession, whether they are properties...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, however, if, so, well, while, at least, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, sort of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 13.1623246493 198% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => 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: 1961.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 401.0 315.596192385 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89027431421 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79212445646 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 176.041082164 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583541147132 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 636.3 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => 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: 25.0 16.0721442886 156% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.9927266716 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.44 106.682146367 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.04 20.7667163134 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28 7.06120827912 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 3.4128256513 322% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184797077469 0.244688304435 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0419901995078 0.084324248473 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0359222683619 0.0667982634062 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102379403439 0.151304729494 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0172681250888 0.056905535591 30% => 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: 9.6 13.0946893788 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 78.4519038076 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 379, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
... to any material assets or valuables in ones possession, whether they are properties...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, however, if, so, well, while, at least, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, sort of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 13.1623246493 198% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => 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: 1961.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 401.0 315.596192385 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89027431421 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79212445646 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 176.041082164 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583541147132 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 636.3 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => 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: 25.0 16.0721442886 156% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.9927266716 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.44 106.682146367 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.04 20.7667163134 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28 7.06120827912 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 3.4128256513 322% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184797077469 0.244688304435 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0419901995078 0.084324248473 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0359222683619 0.0667982634062 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102379403439 0.151304729494 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0172681250888 0.056905535591 30% => 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: 9.6 13.0946893788 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 78.4519038076 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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.