Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It was easier to achieve success in the past than it is today

People have always sought success in different aspects of their lives. Regarding this issue, some people believe that achievement of success is simpler nowadays than it was in the old times, while some others disagree, claiming that it is more difficult to be a successful person these days than it was in the earlier times. Although it seems plausible at first glimpse that the first idea carries more weight, I would counter this point of view due to some reasons. I will enlarge on what I mean in the following paragraphs.
First and foremost, nowadays there are more applicants for every career opportunity owing to boom of population than there were in the past. So, getting a well-paid job, which is a reliable means of success achieved, is more challenging these days than it was in the past. To be more exact, if people want to find a great profession, they have to compete with a number of contestants who try to get that occupation. In stark contrast, in the past, people could land a good job, if they applied for it since there were a few rivals who wanted to get that career. For instance, my brother is a civil engineer almost as good as my father. One of the biggest companies in our hometown recruited my father right upon his graduation from his University, while my brother has searched for a profession for four years, but he can find nothing because there are a lot of contestants for each work opportunity. As a result, being a successful person is tougher these days than it was in the past.
The other reason which deserves some words here lies in the fact that the unprecedented burgeoning of technology in recent decades makes meet with success, a hard work which not everybody can do it. To clarify this point, nowadays the development of technology makes people’s lives reach a level more advanced than ever before, that is why there are several factors that can determine the success. Consequently, nowadays people have to meet many requirements to gain a greater success than they had to in the past. Take my uncle, for illustration. He had a publication which was so thriving. He even published any ordinary book in illegible handwriting which sold out as soon as possible. Whereas, nowadays there are lots of publications which go bankrupt since people do not buy their books because of the lack of having a good font. Therefore, more and more new requirements make gain success too difficult.
To sum up, given the facts that there are more applicants for every job chance in respect of growing population and people have to satisfy more requirements than they had to in the past, I vehemently believe that success achievement was so simpler in the old days than it is these days.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, if, regarding, so, therefore, well, whereas, while, for instance, i mean, as a result, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 13.8261648746 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 43.0788530466 111% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 52.1666666667 121% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2223.0 1977.66487455 112% => OK
No of words: 471.0 407.700716846 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.71974522293 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.682635393 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505307855626 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 694.8 618.680645161 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.3760765682 48.9658058833 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.15 100.406767564 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.55 20.6045352989 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.1 5.45110844103 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.206013573313 0.236089414692 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0675978608431 0.076458572812 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0638996753252 0.0737576698707 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142066886559 0.150856017488 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0193014993768 0.0645574589148 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: 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: 10.39 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 86.8835125448 107% => 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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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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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