Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make many new friends easily. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
That having friends is an indispensable part of humans' lives, is an axiom, mainly because they are social and gregarious creatures who need and desire to live in close relationship with others. The question that whether it is of the higher priority to make new friends, or just try to maintain some long-term relationship with a few close friends is a controversial long-debated issue. Although it is hard to reach a consensus on this issue, I am to a great extent on the belief that having a few but stable and close friendships is more important, due to two considerable reasons, which are elaborated hereunder.
The first reason is that it is not easy to find many people whose personality be similar to yours. This sets a concomitant limit in the number of people appropriate for friendship. You may spend some time with people who are not your type, and still have some fun some people, but you wouldn’t be able to share any of your private feelings and ideas with them. Additionally, many of these friends are actually "friendly strangers" who you cannot trust to confide. When I was a junior in college, I was inclined to make friendships with many new people, but then I found out that many of these people thought in completely different way. Their ambitions and objectives were so different that in fact, we had nothing in common. They even made me embarrassed about my objectives. It seems that it is better to try to find some few people that really match you.
Alongside the reason explained above, close friends would try to help each other in every circumstance. The more time you be in a friendship with somebody, the more intimacy shapes between you, and the more you are willing to sacrifice for each other. Hence, close friends tend to be more supportive and this results in relieving stresses. To elucidate more, I once had a serious problem with my thesis preparation, and a close friend of mine put his worthy time to help solve the problem, which saved me a lot of time.
To sum, according to the reasons justified above, although there are always some exceptions which are excluded from the general rule, I do believe that having a few long-term friendships is more preferable. Not only will these few close friends be more similar to you, but also they would help in the time of need. We should not take the blessings of a strong close friendship for granted.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, hence, if, may, really, so, still, then, in fact, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1990.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 419.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74940334129 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77490000921 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515513126492 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 622.8 618.680645161 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.1332183186 48.9658058833 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.555555556 100.406767564 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2777777778 20.6045352989 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.27777777778 5.45110844103 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.283738437364 0.236089414692 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0869825180314 0.076458572812 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0551533174211 0.0737576698707 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171490903255 0.150856017488 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0356993165679 0.0645574589148 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 11.7677419355 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.57 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 86.8835125448 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.002688172 190% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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