With the growth of satellite and cable television, people in many countries can now watch television channels from all over the world. The programmes that these foreign television networks show have a harmful effect on the local cultures of these countries.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?
In recent years, satellite technology and globalisation have led to an explosion in the popularity of satellite and cable television in many parts of the world. This change has also affected viewing habits in those countries. In my country, for example, I can remember when we had only four local television channels to choose from. Now I can choose from ten times as many channels. Moreover, these channels are from all over the world. While critics argue that these foreign channels have a negative effect on our culture, the opposite is true. In fact, these channels have had mostly positive effects.
One important positive effect of the introduction of international news channels into my country has been in the area of news and current affairs. Whereas. in the past. we found out about the news from our local TV channels, we can now find out about the news from other sources, including international ones. We can even watch news for 24 hours a day, if we wish, with news channels such as CNN. Therefore, our knowledge of the news has increased because of the greater variety of news sources now available, and we are better-informed about events in our country and in the rest of the world than in the post.
Although critics of satellite television claim that it damages local culture, I would argue that it has a positive effect on local culture. In fact, it has made me value my local culture more. For example, I recently watched a programme on the Discovery Channel which featured the customs and traditions of a tribe in my country, which made me feel proud of my country's rich heritage.
To sum up, although the opponents of satellite television worry that foreign TV channels are harmful, they can, in my view, have a beneficial effect on local culture.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, moreover, so, therefore, whereas, while, for example, in fact, such as, in my view, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 13.1623246493 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 24.0651302605 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1474.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 306.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81699346405 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67088446397 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.509803921569 0.561755894193 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 462.6 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 5.43587174349 221% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.7290366016 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.125 106.682146367 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.125 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4375 7.06120827912 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.369682586272 0.244688304435 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119813940657 0.084324248473 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0767125254455 0.0667982634062 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.218274477476 0.151304729494 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0992900379054 0.056905535591 174% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.0946893788 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 50.2224549098 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.4159519038 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 78.4519038076 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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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.