Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Nostalgia is a powerful emotion felt by all human beings. Sometimes we tend to look at the past through rose-tinted glasses and reminisce over fond memories. Many people believe that life forty fifty years ago was simpler and easier. However, I believe that life today is much better and more comfortable, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, today most people have an abundance of resources at their hands. Technology has truly been a boon to the society where we now have washing machines, dishwashers, lawn mowers, cellphones among many other things which automate all boring tasks for us. However, that was not the case, say 60 years ago. For instance, when my grandparents were children they had to do most of their chores mechanically. Washing clothes was an exhausting activity which had to be done by hand, beating the soap-ridden clothes on a rock slab near the river. After which the full load of garments would have to be hung in the open air as well, and then collected after a few hours. Most weekends would be assigned to a chore as trivial as laundry. Contrast it with today, where I can use a washing machine which will not only wash but dry the clothes effectively as well with hardly any effort from my side. In the time saved, I could watch my favourite sitcom or read a book or complete my taxes. Technology has been created to make life comfortable.
Secondly, we also possess a treasure of knowledge at our hands now. Most information we need is simply a click away, online for our perusal. Anything can be searched via online search engines and one can make an informed decision. There are hundreds of thousands of tutorials online, giving instructions on anything from stitching a button to fixing a car tire. My own experience would be a compelling illustration of this. When I was ten, I wanted to learn a special form of hiphop dancing but no one in my small town in India had even heard of it. I was disheartened initially and cursed my luck on being stuck. But soon I found hundreds of dancing videos online, where a person would try to explain slowly how to move and perform the dance. I could use the internet on my laptop and copy the dance tutor online, slowing the video where I felt stuck and with time I learned it quickly. Compare this to sixty years ago, where one would have probably given up on achieving this goal due to lack of information and access to it.
In conclusion, I believe that life is easier today due to the range of knowledge and options we have at our disposal. Life might have been simpler back then but is easier to live and achieve goals now.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, then, well, for instance, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 43.0788530466 100% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2168.0 1977.66487455 110% => OK
No of words: 472.0 407.700716846 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.59322033898 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6610686524 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5111357849 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 212.727598566 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565677966102 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 682.2 618.680645161 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.5050625609 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.3846153846 100.406767564 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1538461538 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.07692307692 5.45110844103 75% => 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 : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => 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: 0.118149580812 0.236089414692 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0325394877036 0.076458572812 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0405763113057 0.0737576698707 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0812349565248 0.150856017488 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0318367225086 0.0645574589148 49% => 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: 9.3 11.7677419355 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 58.1214874552 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.1575268817 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.05 10.9000537634 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 86.8835125448 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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