Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Because the world is changing so quickly, people now are less happy or less satisfied with their lives than people were in the past
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
It is undeniable that happiness is an ambiguous concept and it has many definitions in different cultures. The United Nation’s organization (UN) as a world class reference has a simple criterion for defining happiness; they believe that individuals who can spend more time on the activities which they love the most, are happier than others. Based on mentioned criterion there are two perspectives. Some people are of the opinion that individuals are less happy due to sophisticated life, nowadays. While, others disagree and they think modern life is more satisfying. Both ideas have some adherents who have their own justifications. In what follow, I will explain both ideas and its advocates’ reasons.
Those who are in favor of the first notion state that world is changing rapidly and life becomes more complicated than before, especially after the Industrial revolution. They believe that people has to work harder and they must spend most of their time at work, so as a result they do not have enough time to do the activities which they like the most. Consequently, they do not feel happy. A prominent scientist from mathematics department of Pennsylvania university has published an article about happiness in the Economist journal; he surveyed on five thousand individuals about their jobs, the amount of time that they must spend at work, the activities which they like, their happiness or sadness feelings and so on; he collects each person’s data on a large scale database. After statistical analysis he avers that more than fifty percent of people are not satisfied with their lives due to nowadays’ complex life.
Moving on to the second idea, it has repeatedly seen that the advocates of second notion claim that, it is true that life has become more sophisticated today but we should consider a wide range of possibilities that modern life has provided for us. For instance, today’s life facilitates our access to the most of published books on the web and also people can make connection to their relatives all around the world by video calls and many different other possibilities which can make people happy. Adherents of this notion believe that individuals are happier than the past due to such utilities.
From a personal perspective, I am more inclined to concur with the first notion. I strongly believe that however, modern life has provided many possibilities but it takes our precious time instead. I think if people could make a balance between life and work, they will have more time to spend on their interests and as a result they will be happier.
To recap the main points, there are two beliefs about people’s happiness in today’s life according to aforementioned criterion. Unfortunately, most of the people are not happy due to modern lifestyle but I hope they will adopt themselves to the contemporary lifestyle.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 781, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “After” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...erson’s data on a large scale database. After statistical analysis he avers that more...
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Line 3, column 436, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...all around the world by video calls and many different other possibilities which can make peop...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, however, if, second, so, while, as to, for instance, i think, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.0286738351 181% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 43.0788530466 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2396.0 1977.66487455 121% => OK
No of words: 472.0 407.700716846 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07627118644 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6610686524 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86436603622 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487288135593 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 761.4 618.680645161 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 83.7358346229 48.9658058833 171% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.8 100.406767564 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6 20.6045352989 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85 5.45110844103 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.167585213152 0.236089414692 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0550273487948 0.076458572812 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0452368276264 0.0737576698707 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0964575185222 0.150856017488 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0307950385041 0.0645574589148 48% => 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: 14.3 11.7677419355 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 58.1214874552 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 86.8835125448 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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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 2, column 781, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “After” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...erson’s data on a large scale database. After statistical analysis he avers that more...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 436, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...all around the world by video calls and many different other possibilities which can make peop...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, however, if, second, so, while, as to, for instance, i think, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.0286738351 181% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 43.0788530466 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2396.0 1977.66487455 121% => OK
No of words: 472.0 407.700716846 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07627118644 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6610686524 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86436603622 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487288135593 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 761.4 618.680645161 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 83.7358346229 48.9658058833 171% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.8 100.406767564 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6 20.6045352989 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85 5.45110844103 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.167585213152 0.236089414692 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0550273487948 0.076458572812 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0452368276264 0.0737576698707 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0964575185222 0.150856017488 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0307950385041 0.0645574589148 48% => 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: 14.3 11.7677419355 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 58.1214874552 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 86.8835125448 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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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.