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
Since the emergence of human beings, interpersonal connection between people has been playing a pivotal role in everyone's life. While some argue that having a handful number of friends for a long span of time would lead to a better sense of happiness, others believe that those who can make new friends without much effort are happier. Personally, I am of the opinion that keeping long-lasting connections with fewer people will contribute more to people's happiness. The reasons substantiating my standpoint are elaborated hereunder.
First of all, people with the ability to make enduring connections with their old friends will experience a much more stress-free life, which would also help them to be happier and more satisfied. To be more specific, when individuals spend a lot of time together, the foundation of trust between them would be strong enough that they would not feel anxious while encountering an urgent or unexpected situation. My own experience is a compelling example of this. I have remained friend with four people since elementary school with whom I actually grew up. They have earned my trust during these years, and whenever I was in trouble, they were the first people who showed up for help. Last year, I was laid off by the company for which I was working, and as a result, I was facing economic hardship and feeling totally worried sick. Nevertheless, one of my old friends lent me large-sum money to pay for my apartment rental for a few months before landing another job. Therefore, his generous assistance gave me peace of mind and enabled me to focus only on hunting a decent job. Had I not the ability to developed a strong friendship with my friend, I could not have been able to stay on my own feet when I was almost broke.
Secondly, the more people spend time together, the more they will know each others' personalities and hobbies, which can lead to having more vibrant pastime time besides each other. To put this into a more vivid picture, in long-lasting friendships, people generally get along with each other better since they have more common leisure activities. For instance, all of my old friends are interested in doing sports as I am. It is safe to say that we never argue about filling our spare time together because, for example, every weekend we go to the city park whether to play volleyball or football, and all of us enjoy our time spent together. However, in newly-established friendships, people do not know their friend's favorite activities, resulting in several contentions while choosing one. As a result, they might not be pleased with hanging out together.
To sum up, taking the reasons and points mentioned above, one could conclude that remaining friend with a few people for a longer time would be more beneficial for individuals' delight. It is because they can always rely on their older friends, which reduces their tensions and because they have much more in common to enjoy while spending time together.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for example, for instance, as a result, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 43.0788530466 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 52.1666666667 138% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2482.0 1977.66487455 126% => OK
No of words: 505.0 407.700716846 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91485148515 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71430618987 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 212.727598566 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538613861386 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 765.0 618.680645161 124% => 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: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4893653113 48.9658058833 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.19047619 100.406767564 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0476190476 20.6045352989 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.95238095238 5.45110844103 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 11.8709677419 152% => 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: 0.259829102852 0.236089414692 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0794480564914 0.076458572812 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0616753461375 0.0737576698707 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169298251583 0.150856017488 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0214865032449 0.0645574589148 33% => 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: 13.7 11.7677419355 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 58.1214874552 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 10.9000537634 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 86.8835125448 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => 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: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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