Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
People today spend too much time on personal enjoyment—doing things they like to do—rather than doing things they should do.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
A lot of things have been affecting people's priorities in the modern world, technology is one of them. The question is whether people prefer to do things they like to the detriment of things they do not. From my perspective, people are currently most prone to act for pleasure rather than for duty, due to the effects of a massive technological exposition which is going to be further detailed in the next paragraphs.
First, there are the social networks. People spend all day in their smartphones or computers using digital social networks. I go to work by subway and everyday I see dozens of people facing the screen of their respective gadgets and scrolling pages of facebook, instagram or whatsapp. The majority of these people, like me, has duties to fulfill. Some students have a close exam to be prepared for, teachers have classes to review and few of them seem to be worried about those activities. It looks like pleasure always comes first nowadays.
Next, there are the smartphones themselves as well as other electronic gadgets like tablets, smart watches and so on. Besides the example in the previous paragraph, I see people grabbed to their electronic devices anywhere in my job. More impressively, even when I am attending important meetings I see some of my colleagues taking their gadgets to chat or use some fun app. When in a meeting, we are expected to engage or at least pay attention. We are at work, but, again, it is impressive how people seem to forget their obligations to accomplish personal enjoyment today.
Last but not least, people spend all day watching televisions series. I have to confess that I have done that sometimes. I had to finish an important work but I could not concentrate so I decided to watch some television series. The thing is, I could not stop from doing it because it pleased me more than my obligations do. The consequence of that reckless action is that I spent all day in the couch watching television instead of having done what I should have done.
In conclusion, I feel that people are devoting more energy to activities that embrace their personal enjoyments than to activities that they should engage on. Moreover, in my opinion this is highly related to the amenities brought by the technological advance. People should use these advances with responsibility and find a balance to the time spent on pleasure and duty. This will turn their lives even better.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, look, moreover, so, well, at least, i feel, in conclusion, as well as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 24.0651302605 216% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 41.998997996 140% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2019.0 1615.20841683 125% => OK
No of words: 416.0 315.596192385 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85336538462 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51620172871 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74332564011 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 176.041082164 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548076923077 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 633.6 506.74238477 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 16.0721442886 143% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.8695211218 49.4020404114 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.7826086957 106.682146367 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0869565217 20.7667163134 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5652173913 7.06120827912 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.67935871743 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223061345732 0.244688304435 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0582702178155 0.084324248473 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103558827337 0.0667982634062 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120986795315 0.151304729494 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0854583126029 0.056905535591 150% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 13.0946893788 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.55 12.4159519038 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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