Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
In the past, young people depended too much on their parents to make decisions for them; today young people are better able to make decisions about their own lives.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Nowadays, some people believe young people are more independent and often make their own minds than youngsters in the old times. I totally agree with that viewpoint and my reasons are as follows.
First off, with the help of the Internet and other media, young people can obtain more information in the 21st century. Take me as an example, when I was a high school student, I need to think about my future, like what am I gonna do and what major should I choose or which university should I apply to. To be honest, I can hardly ever receive any valuable advice from my parents since they are both just graduated from high school. Luckily, there is a professional website telling students detailed data about university choices. It listed the scores requirement last year and provides an elaborated introduction about each major. So it is not an exaggeration to say that parents' advice is not the only way that teenagers can count on these days.
Furthermore, the second reason is that thoughts have been changed today and young individuals tend to be more independent. My grandpa shared his story with me once, when he was a little boy, everything need to be settled by his parents even marriage. My grandpa never met my grandma until wedding night and everything was arranged by their parents. In that time, what parents say is the most vital guidance in their life. By contrast, from my perspective, people are more likely to listen to their own minds about which person they like and who they want to share the rest of their lives with. As a consequence, there is no doubt that time has changed and the spirit of independence prevails today.
Finally, what parents tell us may not fit into the real-time situation. That is to say, we may feel embarrassing to share our deepest secrets of mind with our parents, which causes their advice may not help us that well. For example, my old friends know us the best and they will never judge us and just accept us for who we are. When hanging out with them, we do not need to choose our words meticulously and we can joke about the most embarrassing moment without the fear of being judged. On the contrary, we can hardly share this with our parents. And this may cause our parents do not to know our true problem and their solution helps little.
To sum up, based on the reasoning above, I would claim that young people depend on themselves more than old days.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 546, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'scores'' or 'score's'?
Suggestion: scores'; score's
...about university choices. It listed the scores requirement last year and provides an e...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, if, may, second, so, well, for example, no doubt, on the contrary, to sum up, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 64.0 43.0788530466 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1989.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 431.0 407.700716846 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.61484918794 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43959325453 2.67179642975 91% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533642691415 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 606.6 618.680645161 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.4706740183 48.9658058833 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.7142857143 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5238095238 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.7619047619 5.45110844103 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224241095501 0.236089414692 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0661917261492 0.076458572812 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.055445608025 0.0737576698707 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145311842178 0.150856017488 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0673269653476 0.0645574589148 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 11.7677419355 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 58.1214874552 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.46 10.9000537634 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.41 8.01818996416 92% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 86.8835125448 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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