Which of the following is the best way to deal with homesickness?
1) do activities or eat food back home
2) keep in touch with family and friends back home
3) do activities and eat food in your new home
4) make new friends
What activities people should do to cope with homesickness has aroused heated debates among different people. While there are pros and cons to different kinds of activities, I maintain that making new friends is the most ideal option to address homesick problems. My reasons are as follows.
To begin with, trying to fit in a new environment is a fantastic way to tackle homesickness, and making new friends can help people adapt to the new environment. To be more specific, people are adaptive animals, and making new friends is a great method to get familiar with the new surroundings. For instance, I studied at National Taiwan University in Taipei City when I was 18, but I came from Kaohsiung City. Thus, I befriended students who came from Taipei City and New Taipei City in order to force myself accommodate to the new environment. By doing so, I could absorb myself into Taipei culture faster, and once I considered Taipei as my second home, I did not feel homesick that often. Contrarily, whenever I took a bite at homemade dumplings or participated in a pearl milk tea festival held in Taipei, it always reminded me of tasty food and drink in Kaohsiung, and I often could not stop crying when relishing some nostalgic food or joining activities. Evidently, enjoying food or doing activities, whether it's from my new home or old home, cannot cure my homesickness.
In addition, temporarily forgetting about one's hometown is another tactics to deal with homesickness, and making new friends can definitely help people achieve the goal. Take me again as an example. When I was studying in college, I learned how to temporarily forget about my hometown by making several new foreign friends. To be more specific, I met a Haitian smart student called Terry, who came all the way from Haiti to Taiwan, and Jenny, who came from Peru just to learn Mandarin. In addition, I often invited my college friends to study Calculus or play Grand Thief Auto together to strengthen our mutual relationship. Eventually, when my friends and I were having fun, we often forget about our friends and families in our hometown. On the other hand, if I tried to keep in touch with my old friends, I would undoubtedly feel despondent whenever I muttered to my parents about my daily school life. Or, if I heard my old friends telling me about the newly established video game center, I would also feel nostalgic and wanted to come back to Kaohsiung. So apparently, forgetting about one's hometown can help people feel less homesick.
In conclusion, I believe that befriending new people is the best way to solve homesickness problems due to the aforementioned reasons.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, if, second, so, then, thus, while, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 43.0788530466 107% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 52.1666666667 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2209.0 1977.66487455 112% => OK
No of words: 452.0 407.700716846 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88716814159 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61088837703 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83944210624 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 212.727598566 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548672566372 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 689.4 618.680645161 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0704254026 48.9658058833 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.45 100.406767564 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6 20.6045352989 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6 5.45110844103 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More 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: 0.29590669321 0.236089414692 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0841086341719 0.076458572812 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0673435158585 0.0737576698707 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169332079905 0.150856017488 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0576410511059 0.0645574589148 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 86.8835125448 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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