which do you prefer to ease homesicknesses?
1. to eat local food? 2. or to attend local activities? 3. or to go on a trip? 4. or to learn a course?
Nowadays, more and more people move to a new place because their work, children, study etc. In this kind of situation, people are far away from their home and face up to new settings, so it's prone that they become homesick, and even suffer from psychological disorder. Hence, it is necessary for them to ease their homesickness properly. From my perspective, to eat local food or attend local activities is the best among the four choices.
Above all, tasting local food every day can help us get more accustomed to the local life style, thus mitigating the sickness. As the ancient Chinese saying goes 'food, the essence of people's daily life', it is essential for one person to have some food every day, which he or she enjoys, especially when at a new place. Because adapting to the local food styles can make us having every dinner and supper comfortably. At that time, people would find coziness and comfort in food, so they would just forget about their homesickness. In this regard, we can turn to my close friend Jimmy. He went abroad for further study about one year ago, and initially he really felt so homesick that he often lost sleep at night. As a result, his academic performance was awful. Then one of his friends there took him out for dinner every day, as a way to try new food and change mood for Jimmy. Subsequently, Jimmy fell in love with the local taste and love to eat local food. He often invites others to taste some unfamiliar local food and have fun. As days went by, his homesickness was totally obliterated.
Secondly, attending local activities render us golden opportunities to make new friends and communicating with them. When you are out there for activities, you would meet lots of people. By attending activities together, the relationship gets closer and you will also have more common topics with others. So you can access people from all walks of life and make friends with them. In this process, you would feel that you are making new friends and the new place would be just like your new home too. The homesickness will disappear after you adjust yourself into the new place and make new friends. According to a recently released survey, people's mood will change for better during their activities with friends, which means attending local activities can detach you from the feeling of missing home. This is exactly the effect we want for homesick people. If you feel homesick, why not just attending local activities the way you also do at hometown? As a matter of fact, going out for indigenous activities is really helpful for homesick people.
Although the two things above are really important, the other choices may help ease the sickness too. Connecting old friends probably help weaken the sickness but could not kill it at the root of it. The core of homesickness is that people have not fit into the new surroundings. Once they do, the sickness will just go away.
To sum up, eating local food or attending local activities is necessary for homesick people, as I suppose. Only when you fit into the new place and regard it as your new home will you manage to overcome homesickness, and the two approaches above could exactly enable homesick people to fit into the new community.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, thus, as to, i suppose, kind of, as a matter of fact, as a result, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 43.0788530466 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 52.1666666667 127% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2682.0 1977.66487455 136% => OK
No of words: 563.0 407.700716846 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76376554174 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87110059796 4.48103885553 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.490985866 2.67179642975 93% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 212.727598566 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474245115453 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 835.2 618.680645161 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.51792114695 284% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.6003584229 150% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.8418557775 48.9658058833 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.5161290323 100.406767564 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1612903226 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.48387096774 5.45110844103 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.85842293907 259% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.321837632648 0.236089414692 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0964603085366 0.076458572812 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.097618077642 0.0737576698707 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186569525394 0.150856017488 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0645439132946 0.0645574589148 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 11.7677419355 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.03 10.9000537634 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.19 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 86.8835125448 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, thus, as to, i suppose, kind of, as a matter of fact, as a result, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 43.0788530466 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 52.1666666667 127% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2682.0 1977.66487455 136% => OK
No of words: 563.0 407.700716846 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76376554174 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87110059796 4.48103885553 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.490985866 2.67179642975 93% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 212.727598566 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474245115453 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 835.2 618.680645161 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.51792114695 284% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.6003584229 150% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.8418557775 48.9658058833 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.5161290323 100.406767564 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1612903226 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.48387096774 5.45110844103 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.85842293907 259% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.321837632648 0.236089414692 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0964603085366 0.076458572812 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.097618077642 0.0737576698707 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186569525394 0.150856017488 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0645439132946 0.0645574589148 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 11.7677419355 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.03 10.9000537634 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.19 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 86.8835125448 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.