High taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy food
The reading and the lecture are both about high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy food. The author of the reading feels that the policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy food has some benefits. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She is of opinion that each argument about the benefit from high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy food challenged.
First, the author of the reading argues that these high taxes will prevent people from adopting unhealthy behaviors. The article mentions that increasing taxes will lead people to fewer buy them so as a result, people are less buying cigarettes and unhealthy food and that made a healthier society and for less buying unhealthy food that led to less obesity. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that it is not necessary to lead to healthy behaviors. Additionally, she says that there is an example, people are tending to buy cheaper cigarettes and that means lower quality and more harmful elements and higher heath risk and same will apply to unhealthy food because they will continue buying that unhealthy food even if it is expensive and they will not have money left to buy healthy food.
Secondly, the writer suggests that these high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy food will lead to increase medical assistance revenues. In the article, it is said that high taxes and unhealthy behaviors will cause diseases that people will ask for medical assistance and that will lead to increase revenues of medical assistance. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that there are several ways to unfair the high taxes and do not intake into consideration the people income. She elaborates this by bringing up the point that there are people with high earning and some with low earnings money so the people with high salaries wouldn't affect them that much as people with low salaries and low earning money will face problems with high taxes.
Finally, the author of the reading posits that high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy food will increase government revenues. Moreover, the article stated that the government will benefit from the revenues to build public education, stadiums, or public parks. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that increasing government revenues from imposing high taxes has a downside. She notes that there are millions of dollars revenues and the government will be dependant on them and do not want to lose them that is why the government not applying any law to prevent people from smoking they are only putting a partial restriction like preventing smoke inside building, but they allow smoke in a public park so the government just do not want to lose that income.
In conclusion, the lecturer is opposing the author's opinion.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 212, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s and unhealthy food has some benefits. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Line 3, column 591, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'earnings'' or 'earning's'?
Suggestion: earnings'; earning's
...ple with high earning and some with low earnings money so the people with high salaries ...
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Line 3, column 639, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
... money so the people with high salaries wouldnt affect them that much as people with lo...
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Line 4, column 457, Rule ID: DEPENDENT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'dependent' on?
Suggestion: dependent
...ars revenues and the government will be dependant on them and do not want to lose them th...
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Line 5, column 45, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...onclusion, the lecturer is opposing the authors opinion.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in conclusion, in contrast, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 23.0 7.30242825607 315% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 23.0 12.0772626932 190% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 22.412803532 196% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.01324503311 299% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2325.0 1373.03311258 169% => OK
No of words: 462.0 270.72406181 171% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03246753247 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.04702891845 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51096898364 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 145.348785872 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.402597402597 0.540411800872 74% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 711.9 419.366225166 170% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 93.5848627889 49.2860985944 190% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.166666667 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6666666667 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.83333333333 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 4.45695364238 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.476844196398 0.272083759551 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.211466465706 0.0996497079465 212% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.207529841022 0.0662205650399 313% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.293841376079 0.162205337803 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.212646395137 0.0443174109184 480% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.3589403974 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 63.6247240618 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 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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