Some people believe that the best way of learning about life is by listening to the advice of family and friends. Other people believe that the best way of learning about life is through personal experience. Compare the advantages of these two different ways of learning about life. Which do you think is preferable? Use specific examples to support your preference.
It is generally believed that family and friends play a vital role in providing life lessons and values. Indisputably, this is true because they are the people who share the joys and sorrows of our life. Nevertheless, our personal experiences also provide everlasting and profound life lessons. This is because one will never forget the lessons that experience has taught.
Let us begin by looking at the various benefits provided by life-lessons taught by family and friends. One main benefit is that one need not face adverse consequences or end up in big trouble as a consequence of experimenting with an unknown situation. Friends and family members will advise on how to handle a tough situation based on their own life experience in the past. In this circumstance, it would be beneficial to us as we might avoid making a decision that might result in an adverse situation. Moreover, friends and family share our sorrows and joys. Therefore, they would definitely feel responsible for our success and guide us in the right direction.
However, personal experiences provide us everlasting and profound life lessons that we can never forget. For example, during my childhood, my parents gave me an expensive pen. I was so excited to take it to school and show it to my friends. Despite the warning my parents gave me on losing it, I was determined to carry it with me to school. Consequently, I somehow lost the pen by the end of the day. I cried a lot for the next few days but learnt a life lesson that I must be careful with my things. This instilled a habit in me that I must be very careful, attentive and not lose things. I have been following this lesson till date and I feel that I can never forget the experience that triggered me to change. Thus, life experience provides everlasting experience.
Further, advises of all family and friends might not be applicable to our lives. We might not face similar situations where their life lessons can be applied. Also, certain difficult situations might not have the same adverse effects that our family or friends faced. For instance, a friend of mine adviced me to never eat icecream in a shop nearby my house as she had vommitted the day after eating there. While this was not the case for me as I have had icecream in the shop several times and I did not vomit. Therefore, sometimes advice from others could fail despite their harmless intentions.
In conclusion, I prefer to follow my life based on my own personal experiences. I chose to follow this way of life because personal experience provides advice that I can never forget throughout my life. In addition, advice from family and friends might not be suitable for our situation or might have different results in our lives.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, however, if, look, moreover, nevertheless, so, still, therefore, thus, while, for example, for instance, i feel, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 9.8082437276 194% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 76.0 43.0788530466 176% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.0752688172 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2277.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 477.0 407.700716846 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77358490566 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67336384929 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7241313116 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471698113208 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 725.4 618.680645161 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 24.6900169861 48.9658058833 50% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 81.3214285714 100.406767564 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0357142857 20.6045352989 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85714285714 5.45110844103 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 11.8709677419 152% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => 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: 0.136208506624 0.236089414692 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0434071922519 0.076458572812 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0461132043664 0.0737576698707 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0935466643356 0.150856017488 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0461779365976 0.0645574589148 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 11.7677419355 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.09 10.9000537634 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 86.8835125448 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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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