Some people say that you can learn more about another country by watching television programmes and films about it than by actually visiting it. How true is this statement? Is there anything you can learn about another country by visiting it that you cann

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Some people say that you can learn more about another country by watching television programmes and films about it than by actually visiting it. How true is this statement? Is there anything you can learn about another country by visiting it that you cannot learn by watching programmes and films about it?
Give reasons for your answers and include any relevant examples from your own experience.

It was not a long time ago that people had to shoulder the burden of traveling in order to learn about other places in the world. With the invention of TV in the 20th century and accumulative advancements made in the cinema industry, the media have increasingly become the dominant means of spreading information. Hence, some people claim that in order to acquire knowledge about other nations it is more convenient to watch TV shows, movies and documentaries instead of paying a visit. Despite the mass flow of information by media, I think nothing beats the old-fashioned method of learning about other countries.

It is true that Tv programmes able to draw a colorful perspective of a nation and movie producers try to simulate the same experiences that could be gained during a visit to a country in their movies, but they solely made to serve to the purpose of entertainment. While they cover the boldest, the rarest and the most interesting parts of a country when it comes to the subtle matters they fail miserably. For instance, Turkish series, movies and TV shows spin around a high-class living standard, which during my visit some years ago came out to be true only for the top echelon people, I came to the conclusion that the exact opposite of what clouded TV programmes promote the majority of people live a minimalistic life.

In addition, traveling to a foreign country and experiencing by oneself is more fruitful than only watching it on the TV. by physically being involved not only travelers observe by their eyes and ears they also put to work the other three senses. for instance, no matter how scrupulously a movie actor or a TV correspondent tries to explain the taste of a food, how a flower smell or how the weather feels it will not the same as experiencing it themselves.

It could be said that by watching TV and movies people may be able to review some of the pages of a weighty tome of a nation but it is incomparable to the in-depth speculations could be done by traveling.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 248, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: For
...lso put to work the other three senses. for instance, no matter how scrupulously a ...
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Line 7, column 78, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...and movies people may be able to review some of the pages of a weighty tome of a nation but...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, so, while, for instance, i think, in addition, it is true

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1664.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 353.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.71388101983 5.12529762239 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82318176377 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541076487252 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 520.2 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 32.0 20.2975951904 158% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 60.7804611928 49.4020404114 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.272727273 106.682146367 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.0909090909 20.7667163134 155% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.63636363636 7.06120827912 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.172034581049 0.244688304435 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.067863348289 0.084324248473 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0490941023042 0.0667982634062 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0944735420048 0.151304729494 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0481961466384 0.056905535591 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.63 12.4159519038 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.1190380762 146% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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