Question: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?The opinions of celebrities, such as famous entertainers and athletes, are more important to younger people than they are to older people.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
I agree with the following statement that the opinions of celebrities are more important to younger people than they are to older people.
To begin with, the younger people are more likely to be waverers than the older people. To be more specific, youngsters' sense of the world and the society has not been consolidated yet, while the elderly tend to be more stalwart to their stance. According to the two-step flow theory proposed by Lazarsfeld, the well-known sociologist, opinion leaders can pass on their interpretation of media messages to others, but more sufficiently to waverers than to those who persistently insist on their views. That is not difficult to understand. Take avant-garde art as an example. When rock and roll first became popular in Britain, it is a kind of subculture embraced only by young people, and was criticized by older people of junk music and of being a degeneration of serious high art. Younger generations are more open and can embrace new things easily than older generations.
In addition, older people may simply do not be exposed to social media as often as younger people. And because most celebrities are only active in social media by posting selfies and live-streaming, not using social media means that they cannot know about celebrities, never to say their opinions. Pew Research center once did a survey about the screen time use of people in different ages, and showed that people from 20 to 30 in the U.S. spend more than three times on their phone than people from 50 to 60. That result is also true when it comes to the exposure to social media. My grandma for example, cannot use any social media because she cannot read, and my mom, although she is well-educated, hate social media and think it is a waste of time of scanning the posts on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook.
However, I have to admit that older people may have lower degree of critical thinking than younger people. In recent years, children are taught to be critical and do not follow the stream. But things are different decades ago when World War Two was going on, and children at that time are taught to be united and to be patriotic to the state. With the lack of critical thinking, older people are more likely to accept things that are expressed by those celebrities.
In a nutshell, I believe that opinion leaders can play a more important role to younger people than to the older ones.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, well, while, for example, in addition, kind of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 15.1003584229 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 43.0788530466 65% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 52.1666666667 121% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2005.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 420.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77380952381 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59563015824 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 212.727598566 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 630.9 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.4325976486 48.9658058833 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.388888889 100.406767564 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3333333333 20.6045352989 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.61111111111 5.45110844103 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => 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: 0.294137804083 0.236089414692 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111682663135 0.076458572812 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.128208771192 0.0737576698707 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.243550215069 0.150856017488 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.151076085387 0.0645574589148 234% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 11.7677419355 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 10.9000537634 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 86.8835125448 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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